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How Much Does the BlackBerry PlayBook Cost?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 28) -- You can't put a price tag on the Blackberry PlayBook. At least not yet. Research in Motion, the designer of the BlackBerry, announced the Canadian company's first step into tablet computers on Monday when it revealed the first edition BlackBerry Playbook. Although RIM co-CEO Michael Lazaridis revealed a good deal of the tech details behind the device -- 7-inch LCD touch screen, 1GB RAM, dual HD cameras to name a few -- the selling price was noticeably absent from the Lazaridis' address at a developer's conference in San Francisco. Of course, the blogosphere began to ...
UN Calls Out BlackBerry, RIM, Over Data Security
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- When it comes to data security issues, there is a blurry line between private sectors and government -- particularly if the BlackBerry is involved. The secretary-general of the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure, is attempting to define that gray area in favor of his constituents, calling on BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion to allow government law enforcement agencies access to user information, according to The Associated Press. Toure believes that governments engaged in fighting terrorism have the right to request the customer ...
BlackBerry Making Middle East Security Concessions?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- Perhaps privacy is relative. Faced with the prospect of a sweeping ban of the communication features that make a BlackBerry a BlackBerry, Research in Motion (RIM), the device's maker, appears poised to renege on its iron-clad promise that it would never compromise secured user data sealed within its encrypted network. On Friday, DailyFinance reported on the Saudi Arabian government's announcement that it had struck an agreement with RIM to troll user data. This would be accomplished by having RIM put in a local server within the country. Previously, RIM routed and encrypted all ...
UPDATE: RIM Backing Down in BlackBerry Privacy Settings Showdown?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- Well, on second thought, maybe the security and privacy of business communications is a tad overrated. Facing a veritable ban of its product across India and much of the Middle East, Ontario-based Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry smart phone, has agreed to open its vaunted security code to Indian security agencies so as to avoid the looming ban on key features, according to a report published in The Economic Times: The company has offered to share with security agencies its technical codes for corporate email services, open up access to all consumer emails ...
BlackBerry Blackout in Middle East: RIM Not Backing Down
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- Paging Dubai, paging Dubai, do you read me? For BlackBerry phone customers in the Middle Eastern metropolis, the answer may soon be "no," or more accurately, dead silence. But that doesn't mean that the company that makes the phones is going quietly. Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates announced they would be banning many of the functions offered on BlackBerry phones starting in October, rendering the popular messenger devices into little more than conventional cell phones. Not backing down from the threat, Research in Motion (RIM) -- the Ontario-based ...
BlackBerry Outages: How Much Heartache Can One Woman Take?
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyBlackBerry e-mail stopped working Tuesday night, the second outage in less than a week. Frustrated BlackBerry users – this one included -- railed against the parent company, RIM, on Twitter so much that the word "BlackBerry" has been trending for over 15 hours as I write this. ( For those of you who don't tweet, "trending" refers to the top ten most-searched terms in real-time on Twitter.) Last night, when I hadn't received an e-mail for over an hour, I wondered if everyone was putting down their CrackBerrys for the holiday week. Desperate, I tried getting on UberTwitter on my ...
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