The message is that Canadian RIM has been infringing on US Patents owned by NIP for years.
No one has ever said to me thet Blackberry's are cool. Oh I see plenty of them, but their users never seem happy. You'll never see young people connecting with their friends on these small black gizmos, just busy people on the way to the office and they look intense and stressed.
Rip-off In Motion has been the business plan of RIM all along, they knew who owned the patents and chose to pay Lawyers rather then engineers and inventors. We know the plan, become so dominant that you own the market, your customers are captives.
Read the Cival Action PDF: IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA...
As Wi-Fi is becoming more ubiquitous the time is ripe for the Windows Mobile Smart Phone, or the PocketPC and yes the Tablet PC to replace the BlackBerry as the communications tool of choice for corporations.
I use my PocketPC or my laptop to receive email whenever I'm in a Wi-Fi Hot Spot and I have friends in IT who envy me because I'm not always contactable. To many the BlackBerry keeps them tethered to their employer 24/7 and that bothers them!
I also happen to know that RIM is losing their place on the Radio-Spectrum and everybody who is dependant on them today will need to upgrade their hardware when the frequencies are reassigned.
A Tablet PC with a good headset for VoIP calls as well as email and swapping files on a Wi-Fi network is looking like the best option.
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