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RIM Announces Workaround in NTP Case

Posted by Zonk on from the holding-up-the-sky-like-atlas dept.

Justin Michael writes "RIM announces they have a software solution in the event that the courts rules in favor of NTP. The fix is called their multi-mode edition. Customers are being told that they do not need to take action yet, but would need to install the multi-mode edition on both servers and handhelds." A Reuters article also covers the announcement. From that article: "The company said it will soon begin shipping handsets with the software update in a dormant mode. It will make the update available at www.blackberry.com/workaround at a later, but as yet unspecified, date. RIM said the changes would require software updates, but the new system will deliver the same functions and performance."

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  1. maybe i'm wrong? by rwven · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe i'm wrong, but i could have sworn they (RIM) came out with this information several weeks ago...

    Does anyone else remember seeing this elsewhere?

    1. Re:maybe i'm wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      They've been claiming for awhile that they had a work-around. I think the news now is that they claim to have tested the work-around

      Here's another article

      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&si d=a63OizUWrfYI&refer=canada

  2. Re:Why I no longer side with RIM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/docume nt/v4/sub/MarketingPage?user_URL=http://www.theglo beandmail.com%2Fservlet%2FArticleNews%2FTPStory%2F LAC%2F20060202%2FRRIM02%2FTPBusiness%2FCanadian&or d=1139505702575&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login= true
    (warning, soul sucking registration required)

    Thursday, February 2, 2006, Page B1

    WASHINGTON -- Research In Motion Ltd. secured a key victory yesterday after U.S. patent authorities rejected the last of five contested patents at the heart of a bitter legal battle between NTP Inc. and RIM, maker of the BlackBerry.

    So NTP has 2 options now

    1) Run and hide in a closet and cry
    2) Get humiliated when they get their arse handed to them in court

    On the other hand, RIM's been acting like a spoiled brat the entire case. I'm canadian, and i support them, but the perjury and refusing to accept settlement when it was low were marks off their score card for me.