In an interview with The Wall Street Journal's Julia Angwin, RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie showed off the company's new tablet, the PlayBook. He also addressed security concerns that governments in the Middle East and India have with the BlackBerry.

Balsillie called the PlayBook "a super fast machine with an independent identity." Trashing criticism that the tablet is co-dependent on the BlackBerry, he said that it could either be used as a standalone Wi-Fi and media gadget, or as a more powerful device after it's connected to...