In Canada, our major retailers have been selling the Playbooks for up to $300 MSRP for the last 2 weeks and some of them are now sold out (Best Buy and FutureShop). In addition to this promo, Research In Motion (RIM) is also giving away a free 16GB Playbook with the upgrade of an enterprise BES server to v5 until December 31. Rim seems to be in a very festive mood becauseThe Verge is reporting that Blackberry is hawking its 16GB tablet for $99 on its employee only portal.

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