Category: Blackberry
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Teenager charged with using BlackBerry Messenger to incite riot
According the the Telepgraph, it would appear that a teenager is among the first to be charged with using BlackBerry’s BBM service to encourage others to riot. The 18-year-old girl from Essex has been accused of “Intentionally encouraging or assisting in the commision of an offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007”. It is alleged […]
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Cameron Lobbies for Social Media Clampdown as Rioting Continues
It’s been a hell of a week. The streets of some of our most populated major cities are strewn with glass shards, discarded barricades. Windows smashed, stores looted; the world’s drizzle of protest and unrest has come to a head in this country, and the government were nowhere to be found. However, on the return […]
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UK Networks Working With Police To Identify & Apprehend Rioters
UK mobile networks Orange and T-Mobile are currently working alongside the police force to help identify and apprehend those behind this week’s terrible riots which has seen London, Birmingham and Bristol – amongst other British cities – brought to a standstill in wake of the senseless destruction. The law has asked Everything Everywhere – the […]
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UK Networks Working With Police To Identify & Apprehend Rioters
UK mobile networks Orange and T-Mobile are currently working alongside the police force to help identify and apprehend those behind this week’s terrible riots which has seen London, Birmingham and Bristol – amongst other British cities – brought to a standstill in wake of the senseless destruction. The law has asked Everything Everywhere – the […]
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Motorola flirts with Microsoft at comms conference – Sights set on WP7?
It seems Motorola has been making eyes at Microsoft at the Oppenheimer Technology & Communication Conference in Boston, Massachusetts – the company’s CEO making it clear they would happily court the Redmond co. to hook up on a Window Phone 7 deal. “I think we’re completely open to the notion of Windows as a platform” […]
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Official Blackberry Blog Site Hacked – Hackers Don’t Want RIM Helping UK Police With Riots
RIM’s Official Blackberry Blog has been hacked by a group of people who feel that their involvement with the UK Metropolitan Police and Government to help stop the London rioting is wrong. With rioting breaking out in London and other main cities, word has spread fast that those involved in the violence, mugging and looting […]
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How Has Social Networking Influenced the London Riots?
Over the past day or so, the UK has been captivated by the rioting that has taken place in London and now Bristol, Liverpool, Birmingham and Nottingham. News has been coming in thick and fast on the TV, Radio and the Web of the disgraceful acts carried out by groups of rioters in London, though […]
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Blackberry Colt Will Be First QNX-Based Blackberry, Due Early 2012
Despite Research in Motion just announcing five brand new Blackberry smartphones running the new OS 7 software, the entire tech world is still patiently waiting for their real game changer – QNX-based Blackberrys. RIM acquired software company QNX last year and so far they have only used QNX-based software on their first tablet device, the […]
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App Of The Day: Whatsapp Messenger
With a huge number of smartphones now available and each manufacturer or software maker trying to create their own individual messaging software, we often get customers asking how they can chat to their friends who have different phones, for free. “I’ve just got myself an iPhone 4, but I want to chat and send pictures […]
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Gadget Videos: How to Stop Your Phone Voicemail From Being Hacked
After the recent phone hacking scandal surrounding the News of the World and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, we’ve been inundated with questions from customers asking “is my voicemail safe?” and “how do I protect myself against phone hackers?” So we at the Gadget Helpline have put our heads together and have created a Video guide […]
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RIM Shows Off Blackberry App World 3.0
After proudly announcing 1 billion app downloads, RIM has decided to show off Blackberry App World 3.0, the forthcoming redesigned app store for Blackberry smartphones. RIM has made a beta version of App World 3.0 available to participants of its Beta Zone testing program, and many users are currently testing the app. We’ve been treated […]
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Update: Google’s blog tirade on Apple/Microsoft alliance – Round 2
Yesterday the Gadget Helpline covered the war of words which spilt out onto blog and Twitter after Google’s Legal Chief David Drummond launch a bitter tirade on the company’s press page accusing Apple and Microsoft of uniting to buy 6000 patents from defunct co. Nortel in a “hostile, organized campaign” to damage business where it […]