As Research In Motion’s market share continues to decline, the company is banking on the BlackBerry 10 platform. However BlackBerry 10′s release has been pushed back to late next year. Executives have been blaming the delay on the latest release of a new chip, but it turns out that the real reason for the delay is because RIM has been unable to get their core email and messenger services on a new platform.

Yesterday I wrote about this will be Microsoft’s last keynote presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2012. Microsoft has had a 20-year working relationship with the Consumer Electronics Association and has given 14 keynotes. Microsoft decided to end the keynotes because they have realized that their product roadmaps aren’t exactly aligned with the CES in January. The CEA Staff released this statement about Microsoft leaving:

Yesterday I showed you a video of a cat playing with an iPad game, which was good. But this is even better. Here is a video of a bullfrog playing Ant Crusher on an Android device. The end of the video is priceless. This video has seen thousands of YouTube views since it was uploaded on December 18th.

Technology and education make a great combination considering that this generation is super-connected. OnlineColleges.net has created an infographic that shows the most important devices, how often technology is used, the most important websites, etc.

Via: Online Colleges Guide

General Motors is recalling about 20,000 Cadillac SRX crossover vehicles in China and the U.S. because of transmission defects. General Motors’ Chinese joint venture Shanghai GM is recalling 9,862 of the SRX in China. GM is recalling 8,789 of the SRX in the U.S. The vehicles that were recalled are from between 2010 and 2011. The vehicles were built at GM’s Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico.

The most popular Facebook application from 2011 is the Gardens of Time by Playdom. You would expect one of Zynga’s games to be #1, but they do have 4 in the top 10. Here is the top 10 list of Facebook games:

At the Consumer Electronics Show, OnStar will be showing a new in-car 4G infotainment system that will have the ability to accept video calls and stream video content. The system will be integrated into a Chevy Volt research vehicle. Before you start worrying about distractions, you should know that GM claims that the functionality can only be used when the vehicle is parked. [MotorAuthority]

About 1 trillion videos have been played on YouTube in the past year, which is the equivalent of 140 views for every person on Earth. Can you guess which video was number one? I’ll give you a hint, “It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on friday, everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend.” Yup. Rebecca Black’s Friday video was the number one video of the year. The top 10 videos of the year are: