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Middle East Blackberry Update Spies on Users
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| A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out
| to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the company or
| others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages, according to a
| researcher who examined it.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/blackberry-spies/
Internet filter sparks outrage
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| The Government is spending $150,000 on website "filtering" software,
| outraging some bloggers who say the move amounts to censorship of the
| internet.
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| Since 2007 the Department of Internal Affairs' Censorship Compliance Unit has
| worked with a small group of internet service providers on a "trial" project
| to block access to websites distributing child pornography.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10584710&pnum=0
Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration'
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| The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in
| Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin
| targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/14/nokia-boycott-iran-election-protests
Related:
RIM execs settle with SEC over backdated options
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| The Securities and Exchange Commission is charging four executives at
| Research In Motion - the firm behind the BlackBerry - with offences related
| to the backdating of share options.
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| The SEC alleges RIM's CFO Dennis Kavelman, former VP of Finance Angelo
| Loberto, and Co-Chief Executive Officers James Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis
| illegally backdated share options between 1998 and 2006.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/18/blackberry_share_probe/
Share shenanigans cost RIM $1.4 million
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| BLACKBERRY MAKER RIM has been ordered to cough up $1.4 million after the
| Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) had a look through its books and found
| some dodgy dealings relating to stock issuws.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/046/1051046/share-shenanigans-cost-rim-usd1-million
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