STORY HIGHLIGHTSBlackBerry sales have slumped in the U.S. but is still strong in emerging marketsNew models launched should remember why they are popular in developing worldIn places like Brazil and South Africa, the 10 is the update to their current phonein Sub-Saharan Africa there is expected to be 175 million new customers in the next 3 yearsWatch Jim Clancy on CNN International's "The Brief" at...
Basketball: Heat scorch Nets 105-85
Labels: Technology NEW YORK: LeBron James and the NBA champion Miami Heat ended the Brooklyn Nets' home winning streak in emphatic style Wednesday with a 105-85 triumph at the Barclays Centre.The Heat shot 51.8 percent from the field and made 11-of-19 from three-point range to notch their 13th straight victory over the Nets -- including a sweep of all three regular-season games on the schedule in this campaign.Miami...
Teen who performed at inaugural events shot dead
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Chicago mayor: "We have a responsibility to see a stop to this"Hadiya Pendleton, 15, was shot dead in Chicago on TuesdayLast week she performed in events surrounding President Obama's inauguration"Just a matter of days after the happiest day of her life, she's gone," Sen. Dick Durbin saysChicago (CNN) -- A teen who performed at events around President Barack Obama's inauguration...
Obama: "No doubt" Congress will pass immigration, gun bills
Labels: Health Play VideoObama: "No doubt" gun, immigration bills will pass in coming monthsThere's more bipartisan support in Congress for comprehensive immigration reform than gun control legislation, President Obama said tonight during an interview with Univision, but qualified that even under his proposal, illegal immigrants shouldn't be harboring expectations that they'll be granted citizenship "manana." ...
No Device Eliminates Concussion Risk, Experts Say
Labels: Business As the long-term consequences of concussions become clearer, a cottage industry has popped up to sell athletes and worried parents products designed to mitigate risks of concussions that even helmets cannot prevent.Despite the bold claims of some companies, however, many experts say the Holy Grail in contact sports -- a device that prevents concussions -- simply does not exist....
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Is the U.S. getting Egypt wrong again?
Labels: WorldEgyptian riot police stand guard as people protest against Egypt's President Mohamed Morsy in Cairo on December 29, 2012.STORY HIGHLIGHTSNational protests against Morsy set for second anniversary of Egypt's revolution Cynthia Schneider: U.S. out of step, underestimates the anti-Morsy sentiment She says proponents of secular democracy think the U.S. backs Muslim BrotherhoodShe says massive protests...
RIM faces make-or-break launch
Labels: Technology NEW YORK: It's the moment of truth for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.The Canadian company Wednesday will officially launch the BlackBerry 10, an effort that some see as the company's last, best chance to remain a player in a smartphone market it once dominated.RIM burst on the scene with the BlackBerry in 2003. That was long before the iPhone and other competing technologies emerged...
Report: Bus driver shot; child abducted
Labels: LifestyleBy CNN Staffupdated 9:30 PM EST, Tue January 29, 2013STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Man tells CNN affiliate WSFA that bus driver was shot four timesSheriff says no one has been taken into custodyIncident happened near Midland City, Alabama(CNN) -- One man was shot on a school bus in Alabama on Tuesday, the Dale County Sheriff's Office.Sheriff Wally Olson said in a written statement the suspect had not been...
Grandson of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens dies in Texas
Labels: Health Updated 8:35 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas A 21-year-old grandson of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens died Tuesday after being rushed to a hospital in Fort Worth, according to police and a family spokesman. Play VideoCan Wind Aid Energy Crisis? Thomas Boone Pickens IV, who went by Ty, was a junior at Texas Christian University. Pickens' spokesman, Jay Rosser, called the death an "unspeakable family...
Clinton Talks 2016, Stands by Benghazi Testimony
Labels: Business In her final television interview as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton told ABC's Cynthia McFadden that she is "flattered and honored" at the intense interest in whether she might run for president in 2016.But Clinton maintained that right now she's "not focused" on a presidential campaign; instead she said she wants to return to a "normal" life when she steps down from office...
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