In seven days , BlackBerry Messenger won over 20 million users

The version for Android and iPhone , the company launched a week ago, took its base to a total of 80 million.

Following the release of BlackBerry Messenger rugged (BBM ) for Android and iOS , the company revealed that the cross-platform version of its instant messenger won , in a week , 20 million active users.

Thus, BBM has , to date, with a total of 80 million monthly active clients , far from the 350 million that has WhatsApp, but it is certainly very good news for the Canadian company .

" During this first week , BBM was the most downloaded free app in 35 countries through Google Play Store and in 107 countries through the App Store ," said BlackBerry in a statement.

BlackBerry eliminated , this weekend , the virtual waiting list for the Android and iPhone users could download BBM . Download here on the App Store and Google Play

Conflict of BlackBerry in India remains unresolved

The efforts of Research In Motion Ltd., maker of BlackBerry, to broaden the debate on data encryption were dismissed on Friday by Indian industry groups as unnecessary.
At the same time, it seemed unlikely to succeed in countering the claims of the Indian government to have access to email users by 31 August.
India threatened to cut off services to BlackBerry users a million Indians if RIM does not allow security agencies to review the encoded data.

Conflict of BlackBerry in India

RIM's offer Thursday afternoon to conduct an industry forum on security in telecommunications was considered a last-minute effort to broaden the security debate to include other technology companies such as Nokia and Microsoft competitors, plus Google and Skype, have also been the subject of scrutiny by the Indian authorities and the conflict of blackberry continue in India..

RIM is viewed with suspicion by its data encryption, which worries some governments in the Middle East and Asia that fear could be used by militants to avoid detection and the conflict of BlackBerry in India .
The company's shares were trading at $ 45.05 Friday in Nasdaq Stock Market, with 47% lower compared with the maximum level reached in September and its lowest level since April 2009.

BlackBerry service in India

RIM's leaders met Thursday with Indian officials but it is unclear whether any solution agreed by the deadline of Tuesday.The conflict of blackberry in India is similar to the conflict in Arabia Saudi
A telecommunications official said Friday hopeful a deal but said India would not endanger national security of blackberry.
"Those concerns have been addressed in other parts of the world, and I see no reason why the Indian government and agencies need to bear any risk in terms of technology," he told reporters in New Delhi and Communications Minister information technology, Sachin Pilot.

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BlackBerry fight between Arabs and exposes security fears

 

BlackBerry users could switch to the competition

While the governments of United Arab Emirates, India, Saudi Arabia and other countries are considering forcing the manufacturer to suspend the BlackBerry e-mail encryption devices for security reasons, users fear their work routines and you are threatened discussed some options, like moving the iPhone from Apple Inc.
Udoay Ghosh, an executive at electronics company G-Hanzs lives in Dubai, traveling about 300 days a year and use the Blackberry to keep up with an average of more than 100 emails a day.
He is one of many devotees of multipurpose cell interviewed by The Associated Press in airports and offices around the world this week expressing concern about the threats of various governments to ban the service. They also had trouble remembering how they work before they had the device in their hands.
Sipping a coffee before an early flight at Dubai International Airport, the businessman looking fondly at his two good, two BlackBerry phones in front of him.

BlackBerry Users

"This is my laptop, my office and my home," said Udoay on the device. "People today can not wait. In today's world, time is money and if you lose time, lose business," he added.
Nokia Corp. is one of the manufacturers who sell supercell with capacity for email, Web browsing and other office tools, features that have not caused great concern on the part of regulators in the Middle East or Asia.
In the same situation are the iPhone and phones that have the Android operating system Google Inc.

"We want to provide our employees with other devices if there is any major change" regarding Blackberry, said Michael Grabicki, a spokesman for the German chemical company BASF SE.
The other devices, however, not based on the same type of sophisticated encryption that has caused the concerns of various governments, which means that do not offer the same level of security for many companies is crucial.
If prohibitions against BlackBerry are effective, business travelers said they could find ways to encrypt your message using laptops for email, but that would require them to juggle while holding a cup of coffee at an airport. It is much easier to browse messages on a multipurpose phone in the palm of the hand.
"In the end you can also pick up the phone (Blackberry) and call" the business contacts, the user said Emad Soliman, an Australian designer who works in a furniture factory in the capital of the Emirates, Abu Dhabi.
Journalists from The Associated Press Samantha Henry in Newark, New Jersey; Da Yun in Mumbai, Jorge Sainz in Madrid, Raphael G. Satter in London, Juergen Baetz in Berlin, Barbara Surko in Dubai, Peter Svensson in New York and Ji Chen in Shanghai contributed to this article.

BlackBerry loses round in India and Reaches Agreement in Saudi Arabia

India could temporarily paralyze BlackBerry service if security problems are not addressed at a meeting on Thursday. One sign that the battle of the Canadian firm with governments around the world is far from reaching its end.
The latest ultimatum to Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, comes a day after the firm agreed to deliver the user codes that would allow the Saudi authorities to monitor the messages, at times when they sought to silence his service.
Within a few weeks, encryption of mail service and BlackBerry messages, widely beloved by politicians and CEOs in the world, including U.S. President Barack Obama has been the target of several governments.
India, like many other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, wants access to encrypted communications Blackberry, which are linked to militant activity, including attacks on Mumbai in 2008 that killed 166 people.
The Government would meet with the telecommunications operators on Thursday, Reuters said on Wednesday the head of internal security of India UK Bansal, but it is unclear whether RIM would take part in the meeting. RIM declined comment.
Minister (the inside) of India will press on Thursday to set a deadline for RIM share the details of coding.

"I could have definitely some discussions about the term, a proposal to adopt a tough action on BlackBerry services during the meeting," said government official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media .

BlackBerry in India and Saudi Arabia

Another senior Indian government official told Reuters that they could apply to mobile phone operators to shut down their e-mail services and messaging RIM temporarily as a last resort, not to get RIM to provide data access."If they can not provide a solution, we will ask operators (mobile) to stop that particular service. The service will be resumed when we provide a solution," the source said.
The responsibility for compliance with security requirements of India lies on the mobile operators in India rather than fall on RIM.Much of the success of BlackBerry in recent years has been their safety net, enabling executives to communicate securely, but one of its main sales became a problem.
The German government has banned its public officials and politicians to use the BlackBerry and the European Union Commission last month rejected the BlackBerry for Apple iPhone and HTC smartphones.
RIM, unlike its rival Nokia and Apple, operates its own network through a secure service located in Canada and other countries like Britain.
RIM said the BlackBerry security based on a system where customers create their own key and the company does not have the master key or a "backdoor" that allows him or any third person to gain access to corporate data crucial.

Kuwait guarantees that there will be no censorship BlackBerry

Kuwait has no intention of suspending BlackBerry service at the moment, but is talking with the manufacturer on moral and security concerns, said Sunday on Minister of Communications.
"So far, in Kuwait we do not intend to stop BlackBerry services (...) continue at the same time direct and indirect negotiations with the Company and brothers in the Gulf States," said Mohammad al-Busairi told reporters.
The minister, who also serves as government spokesman, said that Kuwait has concerns of "moral and security" on the use of BlackBerry, but gave no further details.
The official confirmed a report that the ministry asked the manufacturer, Research In Motion (RIM) to block pornographic sites.
He also said that RIM asked to Kuwait four months to see its application to block pornographic sites.
No censorship BlackBerry in Kwait

Saudi Arabia is testing a proposal to resolve what it considers a threat to national security in the smart phone. His government on Friday threatened to cut the BlackBerry messaging feature for users, but so far has allowed the service is maintained.
Saudi Officials with RIM said they are conducting tests on three servers in the kingdom, in a bid to resolve the dispute over the popular messaging service firm.
The United Arab Emirates proposed a veto which will depart on October 11 and will affect the BlackBerry messaging, plus email and Internet browsing.
The Canadian manufacturer has been under scrutiny from other countries such as India, Lebanon and Algeria, due to difficult access to company network, which according to several government could complicate the monitoring of threats to national security.

UAE Blackberry service suspended in October

United Arab Emirates (UAE) suspend the use of Blackberry services in October, citing concerns about security risks, which affect half a million users in the Persian Gulf state.

UAE said on Sunday it would stop Blackberry services on 11 October until they develop and implement an "acceptable solution."
"It is a final decision, but we are in discussions with them," said Mohammed Al Ghanem, director general of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA, for its acronym in English) UAE Reuters.

"Censorship has nothing to do with this. What we are talking about is a suspension due to failure of the UAE telecom standards," he added.
UAE contends that Blackberry data are exported abroad and managed by a "foreign business transaction." The regulator said the Blackberry data services are the only ones who operate with this method. The decision does not affect users of rival Nokia phones and Apple's iPhone.

"Today's decision is based on the fact that, in its present form, certain Blackberry services allow users to operate without any liability, raising concerns of a judicial, social and national security to the UAE," said TRA.

Officials Blackberry maker, Research In Motion, were not immediately available for comment.

The suspension of messaging services, email and Web browsing Blackberry comes after attempts dating back to 2007 to make that the provider meets the standards of the country, said the TRA.

United Arab Emirates voiced concern last week that the unit is open to misuse represent security risks, a move that some saw as a dissatisfaction with the inability to monitor the popular BlackBerry messaging service."The government considers the services offered by Blackberry, especially instant messaging as an obstacle to their goal of strengthening the censorship, surveillance and filters," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement on July 26.

BlackBerry, which has about 20 percent of the smartphone market in the world, behind Nokia but ahead of Apple, has an estimated 500,000 users in the UAE.

Operator Launches Program to iPhone and BlackBerry in U.S.

The company Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet telephone service at home, announced that created software for use on iPhone and Blackberry devices that will reduce international call rates in major U.S. wireless service.
The free programs will allow U.S. users to make calls that are transferred through the Vonage network, at least at the international level.
As an example of their prices, Vonage allow a user to make a call to Colombia for five cents a minute, while AT & T charges $ 2.19 per minute or 17 cents a minute if the user purchased the international calling plan, costing $ 3.99 per month.
Calls are made at home for the cell phone using cellular plan minutes, although in the case of the iPhone will use Wi-Fi signal if available. The program also works with the iPod Touch, which only connects to the internet via Wi-Fi. Vonage will then connect the call to its final destination abroad.
The fact that Vonage program for the iPhone can be used as cellular voice channel is unusual.
Other programs of voice over Internet (VoIP) and programs for the iPhone and iPod Touch can already make calls over Wi-Fi, but the speech program, Google Inc., which is scheduled for the cellular network, has not been approved.
Google says its voice was rejected by Apple because it doubles the internal functions of the phone.
Vonage shares were at risk of being temporarily suspended by the stock market have fallen below a dollar, but rose 17 cents Monday (13 to $ 1.49 after the announcement of an international plan of free calls to 60 countries in its basic service.