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it's monday january twenty third 2012 on Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded the chief executives behind the blackberry line of products have resigned as part of a management shuffle Research In Motion co-ceos jim balsillie and Mike Lazar Edie's step down leading thorsten heins the chief operating officer for product and sales to take the reins as the new CEO the former CEOs will remain on the board of directors over the past year leadership committed a number of blunders and lost investor confidence leaving shareholders calling for change up one such disapproval researcher motion will not introduce a new blackberry phone until the latter part of this year the new CEO Heinz has joined the company for years ago a popular online file sharing service called filesonic has disabled the sharing of files in the wake of criminal charges against another file sharing destination megaupload com last week the Department of Justice and the FBI charged megaupload with piracy crimes accusing the site of profiting from users who distribute pirated films and TV shows filesonic has not given an official explanation for the abrupt service change over the weekend but the service now can only be used to retrieve files users have uploaded personally filesonic also suspended a rewards program that paid users when others downloaded their files it seems details of LG's flagship Android smartphone have been leaked it's called the LG x3 and according to info from the site pocket now the x3 will pack a Tegra 3 quad-core processor a large 4.7 inch display 16 gigs of storage and an eight megapixel camera it's possible that LG will officially release details at the Mobile World Congress meeting next month last week Apple introduced textbook support for the iPad and three days later Apple has reportedly sold 350,000 digital textbooks in its iBookstore according to data from the analysts from global equities research text books on the ipad are able to be interactive with video and 3d models and cost 1499 or less president obama wants to hang out with you well so to speak the White House will be using the video chatting service on the google plus social network it's called hang out and starting today the White House youtube channel will be taking and answering questions about the State of the Union address on Tuesday and on Monday january thirtieth the most popular questions will be answered on a Google+ hangout session from the West Wing some who submit questions may also be invited to the live video chat a survey by pew research real twice as many people in the United States own tablets since the holidays the same surge was seen in adults that own Erie ders the percentage also doubled those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey pristina comp and you just been loaded