Jim Balsille, and likely his top sales team, must have been suffering some serious palipitations last week when a tech news site ran a big headline, and big story, about how a big Research in Motion (RIM) customer was considering switching off the BlackBerry platform for Apple's new iPhone.

A tech leader at HSBC, the world's biggest bank, was quoted in a story as saying the company was thinking about moving thousands of users off BlackBerries to the iPhone.

This would be big news, and, like most other tech reporters I suspect, I jumped on the phone to get details.

But the news was that it wasn't news at all. It wasn't true.

As one person I called, who asked to remain anonymous, told me "there's not a snowball's chance in hell" it was happening.

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