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BlackBerry Services To Be Halted In UAE

Posted by Soulskill on from the blocking-the-tip-of-an-iceberg dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "Bloomberg is reporting RIM's BlackBerry Messenger, e-mail and Web browsing services will be suspended in the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East's business hub, starting October 11th due to security concerns. RIM faces similar restrictions in India. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said in a statement on state-run Emirates News Agency, 'In their current form, certain BlackBerry services allow users to act without any legal accountability, causing judicial, social and national security concerns for the UAE.' A senior Indian government official said, 'Though RIM has been fully cooperating ever since the matter was taken up with it in 2008, reports of the company's move to set up a server in China forced us to look at it in a different way.'"

4 of 134 comments (clear)

  1. Money making opportunity! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm going to go write an Oil Billionaire App for the iPhone and Android.

  2. Re:The UAE is partially correct. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A friend in need is a friend indeed
    A friend with weed is better
    A friend with breasts and all the rest
    A friend who's dressed in leather

  3. Re:The UAE is partially correct. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Having hung out too much with the 3rd line, I'd gladly just stop at line 2 and say fuck the rest.

  4. Re:The UAE is partially correct. by chissg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The 1980s called: they want their factually incorrect viciously homophobic epithet back. Please, let them have it.