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Blackberry Future Uncertain

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the up-in-the-air dept.

Dave White writes "Research In Motion and NTP have failed to reach a settlement in the Blackberry case. It looks like the door has been opened for NTP to be granted an injunction blocking the sales of Blackberry wireless messaging devices in the US. The New York Times (free registration yadda yadda) has the scoop on this interesting development."

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  1. good by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    From what I heard it has a short battery life [10hrs], I know it costs alot and the service providers rape you 7 ways from sunday.

    It's not a good product for several reasons [not all of which are technical] and I for one would be glad to get rid of them.

    They're a bunch of smartass punks anyways. I went through the job interview process with them in Waterloo and they'd sit you down todo puzzles. Finally I turned around "do you know how to build a cryptosystem or multiply large numbers quickly?" The guy said no and I said "figures."

    Backstory: They were hiring me for my crypto-math knowledge not to see if I could quickly write programs to solve geometric puzzles [which while fun is a bit nerve shaking during an interview].

    Tom

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    1. Re:good by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

      I wasn't pissed that I didn't get the job [for one reason other than they're snobs is that they're a windows shop].

      I was pissed about how superior they felt they were. These are the types that spend little time in society and don't understand that just because you can't do their specialized problem like they can doesn't make you inferior.

      I mean there are lots of people who can't write efficient portable bignum math during the course of an interview... I don't think less of them for that.

      Also, I do have a job and it's not at McDonalds. You're welcome to come to the office if you want. Just email me in private and you can see me at work.

      Tom

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      Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  2. Re:No suprise there. by thecardinal · · Score: 1, Troll

    You didn't research the market at all, did you? The BB (at least via a BES) does seamless integration with your exchange servers, works close to perfectly (BES seems to be massively more reliable than the exchange servers they rely on).

    They open word/excel/pdf good enough for most people. v4 of the software handles images massively better. And as another poster has mentioned, you can edit word/excel docs as well. Oh, and we are shipping out a couple of thousand of these ... throughout europe.

    They (Blackberry) make a very good business e-mail device, I doubt you'll find anything that works better. I'll be intrigued to find out how good the M$ product "works".

    I've used Pop/imap on my mobile, and its pretty lousy in comparison to Blackberry push technology.