RIM unveils plan to keep BlackBerrys alive
Research In Motion on Thursday unveiled a plan that it says will let its addictive BlackBerry e-mail device work even if it loses a patent dispute, and said the workaround will prevent a shutdown of service in the United States. This is great news for the millions of CrackBerry users around the world as they can continue to feed their addiction.
“This will hopefully lead to more reasonable negotiations, since NTP risks losing all future royalties if the workaround is implemented.” RIM said it has filed applications for a patent for its workaround, part of a software update called BlackBerry Multi-Mode Edition. The company said it will soon begin shipping handsets with the software update in a dormant mode. It will make the update available at www.blackberry.com/workaround at a later, but as yet unspecified, date
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