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"  10:00am, RIM stock price: $16.27 On a pier wedged between squat New York projects and the East River, RIM became BlackBerry and launched a last-ditch effort at self-preservation: BlackBerry 10. If the operating systems works as well as it did during the company&amp;#039;s hour-and-a-half presentation, it just may do the trick. Even Alicia Keys, the company&amp;#039;s new Global Creative Director, is in on the excitement. &amp;quot;She works,&amp;quot; reminds CEO Thorsten Heins, &amp;quot;but she&amp;#039;s also\u2014women, he&amp;#039;s talking to you!\u2014a mom and a wife.&amp;quot; The OS bears little resemblance to the old BlackBerry operating system, and one of the phones\u2014the touchscreen-only Z10, which will cost $149.99 with a contract and become available in the U.S. sometime in March\u2014looks nothing like the old Bberry hardware. The other phone, the Q10, is for diehard Blackberry fans who just can&amp;#039;t live without physical keyboards. On the new devices, swipe gestures reign supreme, letting users seamlessly navigate between apps and the BlackBerry central command, appropriately named Hub, without returning to a home screen. But beneath the sleek, and downright cool, interface lies the Blackberry we all know\u2014the system for the work-and efficiency-obsessed suits of the world. 10:33am, BlackBerry stock price: $16.35 As Heins put it, &amp;quot;this device makes me even more efficient.&amp;quot; Still to BlackBerry&amp;#039;s credit, there&amp;#039;s a bit of room for personal life, and getting to it is as remarkably seamless as navigating the rest of the OS. BB 10 lets you switch between work and personal partitions segregating your Twitter feed from your work-controlled email. (Of course, BlackBerry is BlackBerry, so the icon for work is a briefcase.) In either mode, app icons look like Android tiles with backgrounds. But you&amp;#039;ll see little of them if using the OS to its fullest. Like most actions, switching from app to app is accomplished with a swipe. Drag up from the bottom, and the phone reveals BlackBerry Hub where you can see notifications, respond to emails, friend requests, and other cyber nags\u2014without moving into separate apps. That same system instantly draws info from the web about the people with whom you have meetings scheduled; as Heins said, &amp;quot;the device adapts to you.&amp;quot; That means, added head of software portfolio Vivek Bhardwaj, &amp;quot;if you look at all this activity\u2014in and out\u2014that doesn&amp;#039;t exist on BlackBerry 10.&amp;quot; 10:57am, BlackBerry stock price: $14.75 Aside from gestures, which Bhardwaj was justifiably excited about, he was also &amp;quot;stoked,&amp;quot; in BlackBerry parlance, about the keyboard, which he said is the best out there. Per the BlackBerry ethos, it&amp;#039;s great for people who need to type so fast they don&amp;#039;t have time for individual letters; you can drag entire words from the keyboard into a document. 11:20am, BlackBerry stock price: $14.89 Bhardwaj also introduced Screen Sharing, a nifty feature for displaying work docs, photos, and other content. And though he was gung-ho about the photo editor and camera, his running joke of the day has been whether or not he can now take a long-awaited vacation (where he would, presumably, take pictures with the new device). We think he and the other BBerry executives have obviously put a lot of work into the new OS and devices, but if the stock&amp;#039;s slide over the past two hours is any indication, the market thinks that they may still have more work to do.  12:07pm, BlackBerry stock price at close of event: $14.38 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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