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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

It's Official: Saudis Lift Blackberry Ban

It's been widely reported since Friday's brief outage and then restoration of Blackberry service in Saudi Arabia, but now it's official: Saudi Arabia will allow Blackberry service to continue because it's making progress in negotiations with RIM about using Saudi servers.

Given that the UAE ban isn't set to kick in until October, there's certainly a chance that one will be negotiated too.

I suppose this is good news for Blackberry users, though it adds the potential that Big Brother can gain access to your data, so perhaps not.

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