TECH NEWS: Bold 9900 from BlackBerry!

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Special Correspondent, The Hindu / NEW DELHI, August 11, 2011.

Sanjay Kaul , Senior Director, channel sales, RIM India with Sunil Lalvani, Director, channel sales, RIM India, at the launch of new " BlackBerry Bold 9900 " in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo Rajeev Bhatt - The Hindu.

Research In Motion (RIM) on Thursday launched its latest BlackBerry smartphone, Bold 9900, loaded with the next-generation operating system. Priced at Rs.32,490, the smartphone is built on a new driven platform powered by the latest BlackBerry software and hardware that also offers a large highly-tactile keyboard along with touch display. BlackBerry Bold 9900 comes with a range of powerful hardware enhancements including a 1.2 GhZ processor and HD video recording. It also features Canada-based company's new ‘Liquid Graphics' technology that combines a dedicated high-performance graphics processor with a fast CPU and high resolution display to deliver a responsive touch interface with fast and smooth graphics. The new BlackBerry smartphone is equipped with integrated suite of phone, email, messaging and social applications to keep users connected, while the new operating system ‘BlackBerry 7' includes a number of other pre-loaded applications and integrated functionality for increased productivity and collaboration.

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Parliamentary panel pulls up DoT for delay in resolving BlackBerry issue!

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Parliamentary Committee on Telecom is unhappy with BlackBerry makers solution of data encryption - AP.

Making it clear that no compromise can be made with regard to nation’s security, a Parliamentary panel has expressed discontent over several extensions given by the DoT to Canadian firm offering BlackBerry services in highly encrypted format without a satisfactory solution.

“The committee expresses unhappiness over the way the extension after extension are being given to resolve such an important issue related to security of the country,” the panel on information technology said in its latest report.

Security agencies have expressed concern on highly encrypted communication made through BlackBerry phones and have demanded Research-In-Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry phones, to provide them data in readable format.

“The committee has been apprised that out of the various services provided by BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry Enterprise Solution services cannot be intercepted in readable format, even if the encrypted message is made available by the service providers,” the report said.

The Government gave three extensions to RIM, with the last date being March 31, 2011.

Before the end of its last extension, RIM highlighted number of other highly encrypted services being provided in the country by its competitors and sought to make it an industry issue.

Thereafter, the government formed a committee to come up with mechanism to deal with encryption issues for providing data access to security agencies which is mandatory under Indian Telegraph Act.

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TECH WORLD: BlackBerry Readies iPhone Challenge!

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By CHIP CUMMINS And SPENCER E. ANTE, / http://online.wsj.com / AUGUST 3, 2011.

New BlackBerry Bold - RIM.

Research In Motion Ltd. plans to release a bevy of new BlackBerry devices, a delayed effort to reinvigorate its flagging brand and claw back some of the market share it has hemorrhaged in North America.

Early Wednesday, RIM rolled out five new smartphones, including its first all-touch screen phone. RIM executives said the phones will be available in stores world-wide within weeks, offered by more than 200 carriers.

But it's unclear the new devices will be able to deliver the sort of buzz—and sales—that will help BlackBerry catch up quickly to offerings by Apple Inc. and Google Inc. RIM, which once dominated the sector, has taken more than a year to release a new model and is now a distant third place in North America.

The Canadian company's stock has fallen 68% year-to-date and on Tuesday closed at $24.15—near its 52-week low.

RIM has acknowledged that delays in launching the new phones have kept them out of some carriers' back-to-school programs, which will cost the company sales.

The new BlackBerrys also won't be running the company's recently acquired operating system, QNX. The company has bet its future on the new software, but QNX phones won't be ready until next year. Instead, the new models will run on an update to 

RIM's existing BlackBerry software.

RIM bought QNX last year, betting a major overhaul of its legacy software would help its phones compete better with faster video and other features. But QNX phones won't be ready until early next year.

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TECH WORLD: BlackBerry under attack in corporate cradle!

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• July 2, 2011 
• Reuters 
• New York / DC.

The BlackBerry, once ubiquitous in business, faces deep challenges in that market as more companies allow employees to pick their own smartphones and add third-party security applications.

One of the BlackBerry's main selling points has been Research in Motion's top-tier security and management features, which appeal to IT managers eager to control what workers do with corporate information and protect business systems from cyber attacks.

But with companies such as Good Technology and MobileIron offering applications that could untether IT managers from their BlackBerrys, analysts say that consumer-market pressures could intrude into RIM's mainstay corporate market.

Only two of nine major U.S. companies contacted by Reuters said they exclusively use the BlackBerry, namely Boeing and Exxon Mobil.

The remaining seven, Alcoa, Caterpillar, DuPont, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo, Microsoft and Verizon Communications support at least one other brand, or phones that run Google's Android or Microsoft Windows.

"I would say their enterprise base has been besieged really, first by Apple, then by Android," John Jackson, a mobile device analyst at CCS Insight, said of RIM. "What's happening in the consumer market is repeating itself in the enterprise market. They've been materially hurt in their core enterprise market."

RIM's share of the U.S. smartphone market stood at 25 per cent in April, down from 35 per cent in October last year, pushing BlackBerry to third place from first place in the market, according to research firm comScore.

Most of RIM's problems, analysts say, can be traced to their delay in rolling out new phones to compete with the iPhone or Android phones sold by Samsung, HTC and Motorola.

Chemical company DuPont, which has 67,000 employees, started to give some workers the option to use the iPhone in the fourth quarter of last year. In a few months, iPhones grew to about a quarter of Dupont's smartphones, according to Eric Smith, a telecommunications manager at the company.

"The technology that people have available in their personal and daily lives, they want to use at work. People had their own iPhones and iPads, and they said, 'Hey, why can't we use these for work?'" said Smith.

Securing personal phones......................................................

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