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Comment Re:Why is there a wi-fi crisis? (Score 2) 186

Unfortunatly, no one can understand the possibilities of using new capabilities until they exist. (Please note, i am generalizng here), until wifi and the opening of 2.4 (worthless in the eyes of the FCC) spectrum did the explosion of wifi communication occur. Hopefully the same will happen with a new RF band such as the 5 ghz bAnd.

Comment Re:Forgot their customers (Score 1) 100

While I understand the need for corporate security, I find that as more and more IT rules are pushed down onto my BB, I am becoming less and less likely to keep using it. Unfortunately there are no metrics to calculate the loss of productivity and thus revenue due to employees turning in the POS, crippled BB's and returning to the real world of portable communications. What are the real costs? 1. The possibility of Data lost from my phone? 2. Me only answering emails between the hours of 8am and 5pm, 365 days a year?

Comment Re:iPhone (Score 1) 322

If I send an email to a co-worker via Blackberry that contains proprietary company or government information, there is a possibility that the data is now in the hands of a third party. I may now be liable for criminal and civil penalties because of this shared data... or not. the entity that did share it most likely would though.

Comment Re:Can't someone sue the carriers? (Score 1) 322

I am looking at this from the point of view of a large corporation that uses Carrier IQ infected hardware (Blackberry's) as part of doing buisness. There is a lot of proprietary, confidential information that falls outside of the scope of personal text messages. Insider trading comes to mind. In addition, as a employee of a large defense contractor that uses a LOT of blackberry's, I am sure there must be some rule of law that would prevent Carrier IQ from gathering ALL that information, from CEO down to engineer, and handing it over to another defense contractor.

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