John Paczkowski

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RIM: No Indian BlackBerry Ban if We Can Help It

blackberry_squeezeIndian BlackBerry users rest easy–Research in Motion is certain the Indian government won’t ban the device for lack of a means of monitoring its corporate email and messenger service. “There is no ban on BlackBerry, we are confident that there will be no ban in the future,” RIM VP Robert Crow said Tuesday. “We are here for the long run.”

It would seem, then, that RIM is on target to provide India’s Home Ministry with a solution that will allow it to “lawfully” monitor BlackBerry services by the January 31 deadline the two parties have agreed on.

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work