The Globe & Mail’s Paul Waldie and Body Erman posted a video this morning asking if Research in Motion’s (RIMM) co-CEO Mike Lazaridis should go. (A video preceded, I would note, by an add for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer!) The question, as framed in the video, is whether the top “nerd,” Lazaridis, must go because he’s not “putting out the product.” Lazaridis shares the CEO role with Jim Balsillie , regarded more as the marketing/financial person

The Globe & Mail’s Paul Waldie and Body Erman posted a video this morning asking if Research in Motion’s (RIMM) co-CEO Mike Lazaridis should go. (A video preceded, I would note, by an add for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer!) The question, as framed in the video, is whether the top “nerd,” Lazaridis, must go because he’s not “putting out the product.” Lazaridis shares the CEO role with Jim Balsillie , regarded more as the marketing/financial person

Estimates are starting to trickle in for what Nokia’s ( NOK ) cut in forecast this morning actually translates into. Gleacher & Co.’s Stephen Patel and Brian Marshall estimate that Q2′s sales will now be $13.7 billion, down from last quarter’s $14.1 billion, yielding EPS of 3 cents

Estimates are starting to trickle in for what Nokia’s ( NOK ) cut in forecast this morning actually translates into.

Engadget’s Terrence O’Brien this morning speculates that a new version of Research in Motion’s ( RIMM ) “PlayBook” tablet computer with 4G wireless links could be on the way for the summer, as expected, based on Google search results for the phrase “ Sprint PlayBook .” Such as search comes up with links with provocative titles such as “Sprint | Introducing the BlackBerry 4G Playbook Tablet,” although said links actually lead to nondescript pages.

Engadget’s Terrence O’Brien this morning speculates that a new version of Research in Motion’s ( RIMM ) “PlayBook” tablet computer with 4G wireless links could be on the way for the summer, as expected, based on Google search results for the phrase “ Sprint PlayBook .” Such as search comes up with links with provocative titles such as “Sprint | Introducing the BlackBerry 4G Playbook Tablet,” although said links actually lead to nondescript pages.

Citigroup analyst Walter Pritchard this morning initiated coverage with a Buy rating on shares of SourceFire ( FIRE ), the maker of computer network intrusion prevention software and hardware, writing that the explosion of mobile devices is increasing the need for “countermeasures” in cyber-security. The competition, Cisco Systems ( CSCO ), Juniper Networks ( JNPR ), and McAfee , which Intel ( INTC ) just bought, is distracted, he writes: “Leader Cisco continues to have challenges and Juniper appears incrementally more network-focused

And you thought LinkedIn ( LNKD ) was fantastically overpriced? The Financial Times’s April Dembosky yesterday wrote that Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel thinks LinkedIn’s underwriters, Morgan Stanley , Merrill Lynch , and JP Morgan drastically underpriced the company’s IPO two weeks ago, which seems plainly evident given the stock price today is at $85.80, 91% above the $45 IPO price the banks set.

Apple made a pretty steep climb at the open following word CEO Jobs will head the company’s June 6th developer conference.

Apple made a pretty steep climb at the open following word CEO Jobs will head the company’s June 6th developer conference.