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Push Comes to Shove: German Injunction Targets Apple’s iCloud Email Alerts

John Paczkowski in News on February 3 at 11:46 am PT

Motorola wins an injunction against iCloud in Germany, using what Apple describes as “an old pager patent.”

D7 Interview: RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis Says It’s Not a One-Size-Fits-All Business

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 2:22 pm PT

If the iPhone and Palm Pre are perfecting the convergence of cellphone and PC, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry anticipated it. And that’s largely thanks to co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, its patron saint, who conceived the BlackBerry in 1999 as a two-way pager, and over the ensuing years, transformed it into the device we know today. The BlackBerry revolutionized corporate life with a famously addictive real-time, almost-anywhere connectivity, which prompted Merriam-Webster to recognize its “Crackberry” alias as the 2006 Word-of-the-Year. But that was three years ago–a lifetime in the mobile market. In 2009, “Crackberry” is a cliche, and RIM, though still a handset juggernaut, must work harder to maintain its dominant player status in an enterprise smartphone space crowded with formidable challengers: Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Google and its open source Android OS.