RIM offers to work with India on Blackberry access

Blackberry : Is It A Secured Service ??? News rooms, hitting the conversation.

(Reuters) - Research in Motion said on Thursday it was willing to work with India to support the country's needs to lawfully access encrypted services on the company's Blackberry smartphone.

Time is running out for the Canadian phone maker to give India a solution to access encrypted data that security agencies fear could be misused by militants and to create political instability - ( uk.reuters.com)

Background of the Blackberry Story :

Blackberry has been in news, because of its security concerns. The text messages sent by this service were in encrypted form, which was hard to decode by the Government.

There was even a risk that terrorist groups might be taking an advantage of the services for their benefit.
The Indian Government asked the Company either to reform the situation, by giving them an access to the messaging or completely shut down the services.

UPDATED: Seesmic for BlackBerry v1.4.1 Released to Fix Bugs

by Ronen Halevy on Aug 26th, 2010

UPDATE: Alexandra from Seesmic let us know that the new update adds the ability to change the font size in the app

Seems like this week is cleaning time for bugs in BlackBerry apps. Jerry let us know that Seesmic updated their BlackBerry Twitter app to v1.4.1 from the previous 1.4. We have no idea what the new version brings but it looks like a bug fix maintenance release.

As a reminder the v1.4 upgrade added:

• Sound profile notifications available in the BlackBerry “Sounds” app
• Support of Ping.fm groups
• Notifications for new tweets, new replies and new direct messages
• Improved User Interface
• Picture thumbnails now displayed in the “Pictures” folder of the file explorer
• Use of XAuth with Twitter for more security

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