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Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'
Ubergrendle writes "The Globe&Mail is reporting that Chinese telecom company China Unicom Ltd. is launching a new wireless device unapologetically named 'Redberry'. This comes in the wake of an almost 2 year regulatory delay blocking the introduction of RIM's Blackberries to mainland China. Certainly this delay was convenient to China Unicom, if not deliberately staged to allow for domestic competition."
For the life of me, I cannot fathom why a Chinese company would name their device after an American folk & blues musician that was popular in the early part of the 20th century. Pencils down.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
In other news, RIM has secured a contract for the Irish city of Dingle. The headline?
DingleBerry is the new RIM job.
Sony ha
It sounds like something a college kid would make up as a prank and try to sell.
Hmm, I think the kid would have called it Dingleberry...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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One could guess it's like a Blackberry, but Red.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
"A country that prides itself in constraining all markets, destroying their populace and basically giving the middle finger to rest of the planet is put on a pedestal by the countries that should be invading them to free their people?"
HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT AMERIC..... oh, you're talking about China? yeah, yeah, I agree!
/me gives the middle finger to China
ElderBerry BlueBerry CommieBerry
A Chinese company named RedTN has sued Redberry for violating one of its red patents.
The US has fired off a bunch of trade sanctions. Unfortunately, they've got terrible aim, so they all hit Canada instead.
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This comes in the wake of an almost 2 year regulatory delay blocking the introduction of RIM's Blackberries to mainland China. Certainly this delay was convenient to China Unicom, if not deliberately staged to allow for domestic competition.
You mispelled 'surveillance'.
If you write anything on your device that says anything about Taiwan independence or
Falun Gong, your phone tries to kill you.
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.------R. N. Marley
Fine. I've got dibs on BlueBerry. Capitalization makes all the difference!
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
RedBerry 5 is aliiiive!
Well that's how I pictured it, anyhow.
on popular consumer electronics:
iPod -> iMao
XBox -> XBoxerRebellion
Sony PlayStation Portable -> Lenovo CulturalRevolution Portable
Canon PowerShot -> Canon GreatLeapForward
etc.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I dunno, that whole Cultural Revolution/Red Guard thing was pretty original idea. That's not to say things didn't go to hell in a handbasket. But what about hospitals staffed by people who don't know medicine, or school staffed by people who lacked enough skills to teach, who'd have though of that on a vast national scale? Oh, how about parading your parents in front of the whole village wearing dunce hats for "counter-revolutionary" activities while whipping themselves into a frenzy chanting quotes from the Little Red Book? Invented in China I think.