BlackBerry maker shakes up board

(Financial Times) -- Research In Motion's joint chairmen and chief executives, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, have resigned as part of a long-awaited shake-up at the embattled Canadian maker of the BlackBerry smartphone.

RIM said late on Sunday that Lazaridis would continue to play an active role as vice-chairman and

Apple: School should center on the iPad

Apple on Thursday lifted the veil on its plans to remake the educational landscape in a way that centers on its best-selling tablet computer, the iPad.

"Education is deep in Apple's DNA and iPad may be our most exciting education product yet," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing,

Phone, tablet users spend more time with apps than Web

Phone and tablet owners used to spend most of their time surfing the Web.

Now they're using apps, according to data from Flurry Analytics.

A year and a half ago, mobile users tended to spend considerably more time -- an average of 64 minutes