BlackBerry Battle In India Going Down To the Wire

crimeandpunishment writes "With just days before the deadline, BlackBerry's maker was shot down by India in its latest effort to avoid having its services cut off for about a million Indian users of the device. Research in Motion's effort to broaden the debate over data encryption were rejected. The Indian government wants access to users' emails. The head of a powerful industry group in India accused RIM of taking the wrong approach to negotiations, saying, 'It need not have escalated to this level. Folks like RIM have to understand business is done differently here.'"

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The end of India mobile developers

[alextheseal]

Here's a perspective that perhaps India is not considering. My company employs a fair number of mobile developers and QA staff in India. They work on BlackBerry mobile devices as well as others. If BlackBerry's are shutdown in India guess how long we will wait until we pull all that work back to the US and drop all our India employees. Hint: It starts with a D and ends in "ays".

Re:"Freedom" fighters

[falconwolf]

Intentional targeting of innocent civilians is inherently at odds with freedom.

Ah, so you agree that those Israelis who took part in bombings and massacres in Palestine, such as Deir Yassin and the Qibya massacre were and are terrorists. Ariel Sharon led the Army unit in the attack against the village where 69 villagers were killed and most houses were blown up. He along with other Israeli leaders was a terrorist.

Fact is is many Zionists, not all Jews are Zionists but there are Christian Zionists as well, want a cleaned Israel for Jews, no non-Jew Arabs. Arabs are accused of wanting to push all Jews into the sea but that's what these Zionists want to do to Muslim Arabs.

Falcon