5 Years Later Another Plane Diverted

"Federal authorities diverted a San Francisco-bound United Airlines jet to Dallas as a precautionary security measure on Monday after finding an unclaimed BlackBerry on board. Officials had also found and removed...

Microsoft to take on BlackBerry in India

"Microsoft is planning to give BlackBerry a run for its money in India by supporting "push" e-mail in mobile devices like pocket-PCs and smartphones."

Big Brother IS Watching You At Work

"You have been warned. Especially if you are reading this at work, or working on your blog at work.....Or if you surfing the web at work, etc. Remember to use an anonymizer and clean those files. Electronic...

Step back, and put down the BlackBerry… Step back, and…

"If your thumbs are numb and your eyes are shot from a serious BlackBerry addiction, you might try a 12-step program that begins with checking into a certain Chicago hotel. The hotel's manager, himself a recovering BlackBerry addict, will put such devices under lock and key...

RIM CEO cautious about unlimited wireless data plans

"The president and co-CEO of Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry devices, warned the industry Monday that allowing people unlimited wireless data use will have a devastating effect on wireless innovation</q>I think Mike doth protest too much... Remember, RIM...

AppleBerry might be the next big thing

"Is the day near when you will get music on your BlackBerry and e-mail on your iPod? The idea of an “AppleBerry” partnership between Research In Motion Ltd. and Apple Computer Inc. was floated...

Work Sucks

"The headlines say it all, the problem is that workers continue to drag their asses into work, or even take all that stress home with them and work from there. Their misplaced loyalty is seldom rewarded since our bosses are psycopaths."

RIM faces new U.S. fight over patents

"Research In Motion Ltd. finds itself in a new patent infringement battle that could threaten its BlackBerry wireless service in the United States, less than two months after the company paid one of the biggest...

China battles BlackBerry with...RedBerry

"On the eve of its long-delayed China launch, BlackBerry is facing a sudden challenge from a cheaper Chinese rival called, unapologetically, RedBerry. The new service, aimed squarely at BlackBerry, was launched...

Continuous Partial Attention

From Slashdot:"ubercombatwombat writes "While answering my softphone and checking my mail simultaneously I ran across the following article by Steven Levy. In it he writes about a speaker named Linda Stone and something she called "Continuous Partial...

RIM buys phone-software maker

"NEW YORK — The Canadian maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices, fresh from settling a lawsuit that threatened its very business, is buying a company that will allow it to marry BlackBerrys with corporate phone...

RIM's new BlackBerry software skirts possible U.S. ban

"Research In Motion has developed new software that would allow it to continue operating in the United States should the courts ban its BlackBerry hand-held devices in the country. RIM, based in Waterloo, Ont.,...

News crews begin to survey damage | The News is NowPublic.com

Our charge today is to set up a network base station to service several broadcasts.... No power here, but Blackberries are operating. In its role in helping us cover storms, it ranks right up there with the invention of the Power Bar.

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