BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) on launched its new smartphone 'Curve 9220' priced at Rs 10,990, a move aimed at strengthening its presence in India, which is one of its fast growing markets.
With the approaching deadline to offer complete solution for monitoring of its contents by January 31, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has offered lawful interception in its security architecture through cloud computing from Indian operators.
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The government has asked RIM to handover interception solution for its BlackBerry Internet Services, BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers by January 31, 2011.
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In a letter to Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, Canada-based Research In Motion, makers of BlackBerry, virtually refused to provide an intercepting technology for its BlackBerry Enterprise Server and said it had provided options to Law Enforcement Agencies within India's existing techno-legal framework.
The Indian market, in the first 11 months of 2011, saw smartphone shipments cross the 10-million mark for the first time.
The Telecom Ministry on Monday said its technical team is testing the solution of interception given by smartphone BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and is expecting a report by end of October.
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Research In Motion has denied an Indian media report that said the company has offered to install a network data analysis system at its India office to allow access to emails sent through its BlackBerry smartphones to Indian security agencies.
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The government has set a deadline of March 31 for telecom operators to provide an interception solution for BlackBerry enterprise services.
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After Research In Motion (owners of BlackBerry), the home ministry will now turn the screws on Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. These companies provide technology and services for the virtual private networks (VPNs) run by various operators in India. The government will ask them to conform to regulation that allows intelligence agencies to lawfully intercept data. Failure to do so could result in the termination of VPN services by operators using their technology.
The government has extended till December 31 the deadline given to Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry phones, to provide access to its messenger and enterprise services to the security agencies.
Canadian firm Research in Motion is installing and testing a new service, to be made available before January 31, which will automatically render lawfully intercepted BlackBerry messenger messages in a format readable by Indian agencies.
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While Research in Motion, the Canada-based maker of BlackBerry, negotiated a two-month reprieve to develop a solution complying with the Indian government's demands, Indian officials have said companies such as Google and Skype would also be asked to comply with the government's directives or close their networks.
Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry mobile phones, on Monday gave certain proposals for lawful access to its services by law enforcing agencies and said that these proposals will be immediately operationalised in India, Union home ministry sources said after a meeting between RIM and government officials.
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Admitting that the controversy over security has impacted its business in India, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion on Tuesday said it will provide a final solution for lawful interception of BlackBerry Messenger services by January next year.
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Noting that a decision would be taken soon on whether to allow the BlackBerry Enterprise Mail or not, Home Minister P Chidambaram said he expected that Research-in-Motion (RIM), manufacturer of the smart phones, would be able to find some solution.
Canadian firm RIM, earlier this month had also expressed its inability to provide its customers' encryption key to the intelligence agencies for lawful interception of contents.
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion said it is hopeful that its dispute with India and the UAE over the issue of data security will be resolved successfully, but reiterated that it "cannot compromise the security architecture of its enterprise solution."
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Blackberry has asked for 18-24 months to provide a complete solution for interception of its Enterprise Mail, but with a condition that its services would not be banned, a guarantee that the government declined to give.
The government on Thursday made it clear that BlackBerry services may be banned if its maker, Research-in-Motion, fails to provide a monitoring solution in the next five days.
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