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June 30 Deadline for Apple Subscriptions

John Paczkowski in News on February 15, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Apple’s new subscription plan has a compliance deadline. June 30, according to a memo sent to publishers earlier this year.

Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media

Liz Gannes in Social on February 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Hearsay Labs today launched a social media platform for companies that have both corporate brands and local representatives, with existing customers such as Farmers Insurance, State Farm and 24 Hour Fitness.

RIM Gives India Access to Consumer Messaging

John Paczkowski in News on January 13, 2011 at 8:57 am PT

Research In Motion has finally settled its long-running dispute with the Indian government over its BlackBerry Messenger Service–part of it, anyway. It’s given wireless carriers in the country the ability to intercept messages sent over its BlackBerry Messenger service and BlackBerry Internet Service if requested by the government.

RIM: No Indian BlackBerry Ban if We Can Help It

John Paczkowski in News on November 23, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Indian 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.

RIM Denies Deal With India Over Access

John Paczkowski in News on November 17, 2010 at 2:14 pm PT

Research in Motion isn’t any nearer to a deal to provide the Indian government with access to its encrypted email and instant messaging data than it was back in October. This despite the claims of an anonymous official from the country’s interior ministry who says the BlackBerry maker has “in principle agreed to provide us recorded data from their servers.”

RIM Gets Reprieve in India; Plan May Involve Local Server

John Paczkowski in News on October 12, 2010 at 8:49 am PT

Research in Motion narrowly avoided a ban on its BlackBerry service in the United Arab Emirates last week after reaching some sort of accord with the government there. But it continues to face one in India, which has demanded similar access to its encrypted email and instant messaging data.

No BlackBerry Blackout in UAE

John Paczkowski in News on October 8, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry service won’t be going dark in The United Arab Emirates on Monday. This morning the the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, which had threatened to ban the service over security concerns, backed off that threat after reaching some sort of deal with RIM.

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Germans Debate Privacy With Google

Beth Callaghan in News on September 20, 2010 at 11:42 am PT

The German government’s stringent data protection laws have often put it in conflict with Web companies like Google, and it met with Internet companies today to find solutions as demands for government regulation intensify. Hundreds of thousands of Germans have requested that their homes be left out of Google’s Street View, and the government will scrutinize Google’s compliance with its own promise to honor those requests for privacy — but Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, who hosted today’s meeting, said he doesn’t expect Street View to be banned.

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IBM Bets on OpenPages for Its Risk-Management Offering

Voices in News on September 15, 2010 at 9:17 am PT

IBM sees a big upside in business analytics products–software that distills the minutiae of corporate data into something simple enough for executives to understand–and today it moved to bolster its portfolio with the acquisition of OpenPages. The Waltham, Mass., company makes software designed to help management keep the corporate posterior covered by identifying and administering risk and compliance activities across entire organizations. Purchase price was not disclosed.

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