This week's news on BlackBerry.
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UK agency approves BlackBerry 7 OS for government
17 MayIBTimes.com - Technology
Research In Motion Ltd said the UK agency responsible for setting standards for computer security has approved the BlackBerry 7 operating system for government use. -
Telmap Navigator, FREE for Blackberry users in the UK
17 MayRealWire
LONDON, 17 May, 2012 – Telmap, pioneers in mobile location-based services, announced today that a new version of its Telmap Navigator mobile application is now available for free to Blackberry users in the UK.Telmap Navigator can be downloaded on Blackberry’s AppWorld and for the first time enables Blackberry users to turn their devices for free, into a real local search, mapping and navigation system with in-car navigation with 3D moving maps, voice-guided instructions, a dedicated...Source: RealWire -
Find Blackberry Applications Developer Online
17 MayArticlesBase
Now days, we can see a large number of people using various gadgets. A lot of brands are making enormous money by selling various kinds of gadgets. The best and the worst thing about gadgets is that newer version keeps on coming in the market. It is best thing about gadgets because people who wait can get latest versions of their favorite gadgets but it is worst thing because the moment a new version is introduced the previous version is left outdated. There are a large number of people who have -
Consumers Less Happy With BlackBerrys
16 MayNYT - Bits
A survey of consumer satisfaction among cellphone users finds that RIM's BlackBerry is losing ground. On a scale of up to 100, RIM's aggregate satisfaction score is lowest, at 69. By contrast Apple, the index leader, scored 83. -
BlackBerry 10 home screen and launcher officially previewed by RIM
15 MayEngadget
By now, the crew in Waterloo have likely piqued your interest in what's to come for the world of BlackBerry. So far, we've gotten to see the company's developer handset, along with a few screenshots of the BlackBerry 10 software. One element that's remained elusive up until this point, however, was the home screen itself. All of that changed today, as Research in Motion is now providing a sneak peek of it and the full launcher. While you might mistake the home screen as being populated with widgets, in fact, these are open applications that will dynamically change based on your activities. Much of the interface will be gesture-driven, and as such, a quick swipe to the right will bring the full launcher to the forefront -- just hop the break for a glimpse. Similarly, a swipe to the left will reveal the unified inbox. The result is nothing revolutionary, but the BlackBerry 10 designers certainly deserve credit for the clean and functional interface -- it's but one more reason to be excited for what's next.
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BlackBerry Curve 9320 review
14 MayT3.com - Reviews
The BlackBerry Curve 9320 is RIM’s £149 bid to win first time smartphone users with smartphone basics, decent battery life and integrated BBM for social feeds
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Rebekah Brooks's missing BlackBerry message puzzles IT experts
11 Maywww.guardian.co.uk
Sample of computer forensics experts dispute how 'message from David Cameron' could have been lost in copying process
Rebekah Brooks's BlackBerry puzzled a number of experts on Friday. Specifically, they couldn't understand how a process that is carried out routinely – creating a copy of all the files on the device, or "imaging" – could have led to any loss of data.
Giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry, Brooks said that at least one message on her News International corporate BlackBerry sent by David Cameron had been "compressed" so that "there's no content in it".
Speaking on Friday morning, the former chief executive of News International had explained that her device was retained by the Metropolitan police, and then returned to the company in July 2011. "It contained, I think, about six weeks of emails and less so of texts, but about a month of texts," she said. "But we had to image [take a copy of] them and we had some problems with that."
Asked by Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, whether there were any emails or texts from Cameron or George Osborne on the device when she left News International, she replied: "No. Although when we got the image back, there was one from Mr Cameron that was compressed, so [it was] in June, but there's no content in it."
"So it's a complete mystery what if anything it might contain?" asked Jay.
"Yes," replied Brooks.
But the mystery to computer forensics experts was what could possibly have gone wrong in imaging the device's files. That is a standard process used when computer equipment and smartphones are seized, in which an exact bit-for-bit copy is made of the contents of any storage on the device.
That allows police and legal teams to consider it in detail, and even to create other digital copies – which by their nature will be a perfect copy of the original – that can then be examined without damaging the original copy that is retained as evidence.
Computer forensics is now a standard course, and smartphone makers offer police and authorised experts tools to make copies of files on their devices. That includes BlackBerrys. One difference about those devices, though, is that emails and other data stored on them is encrypted: it cannot be read directly without access to the user's password, although the administrators of the device – in this case News International – can lock or delete information from BlackBerrys remotely.
A former engineer at BlackBerry-maker RIM said: "RIM has tools that allow you to look inside the [device's] filestore but obviously everything is encrypted so you can't see what's in it. However, the imaging process is – as I said – a copy process. It makes no changes to the device."
Peter Warren, chairman of the Cyber Security Research Institute, who has taken a forensics course, said: "It's very odd … forensics compression technology should treat all messages equally."
He pointed out that if News International's or Brooks's legal team wanted a copy of the BlackBerry, "the simplest way to have done that would have been with BlackBerry Desktop manager [software, provided free by RIM] which would not have compressed the messages at all and would have given you reasonably [legally] admissible copy due to the protection that BlackBerry encryption gives you".
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BlackBerry Curve 9320
11 MayTrustedReviews
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BlackBerry 7 Approved for Pentagon Use
10 MayGeeky-Gadgets
Things may not be looking good for RIM these days, but it isn’t all bad news. Some people still love Blackberry devices for its design and its security features. Like the Pentagon, for instance, who have endorsed the device.
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