<div><p>Research In Motion (RIM) has rolled out a BlackBerry Presenter that business "road warriors" can use to give PowerPoint presentations from the Canadian company's popular smartphones.</p><p>"If you do PowerPoint presentations, you can leave the laptop behind," RIM director of public relations Shelly Sofer said after pulling a Presenter from a jacket pocket.</p><p>"We see the use of this for the road warrior, and it can be left in a corporation board room so anyone can go in and do a presentation without having to pull out cables or mess with resolution."</p><p>A Presenter device, about the size of an Altoids mints container, is plugged into a projector and then controlled wirelessly by a BlackBerry.</p><p>Slides, graphs or other information assembled using Microsoft's PowerPoint program are routed to a projector and displayed in high resolution.</p><p>"The presentation streams securely over Bluetooth," Softer said. "You can walk around while doing your presentation, read notes on the handset and freeze or jump around the slides."</p><p>BlackBerry Presenter devices have enough memory to hold data from about 100 slides, so information can be left behind after the smartphone wielder departs.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=66566517&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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