RIM turns in record quarter
Canadian smartphone vendor Research In Motion has reported record results for the third quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, with shipments of its Blackberry devices growing 40 per cent year on year to 14.2 million devices. Revenues were up by the same degree, hitting $5.49bn compared to $3.29bn for the third financial quarter of 2010, and there was a sequential improvement on the second quarter of 19 per cent.
Indian Government threatens Blackberry shutdown
The Indian Government has threatened to shut down Research In Motion’s Indian Blackberry operation at the end of August if RIM does not provide a solution allowing the state “lawful interception” of the firm’s Blackberry email and instant messaging services in India.
The Common Good
Every once in a while this industry produces a decision that is so genuinely sensible that you feel like cracking open a packet of dark chocolate digestive biscuits in celebration. Even if the need for that decision to be taken had been so blindingly obvious for such a long time that contemplating it has actually made you a bit blind, causing you to buy milk chocolate digestives by mistake, leading to a series of tiny but crushing disappointments with every bite you take.
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