Wednesday, February 01, 2006

U.S. Has Misgivings About BlackBerry Shutdown Plan

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

The U.S. Justice Department urged a federal judge on Wednesday to refrain from any plans to shut the BlackBerry portable e-mail service over patent infringement until the government gets more assurances its users will be exempted.

We believe that there are still a number of serious questions to be answered as to how an injunction can be implemented so as to continue BlackBerry service for governmental and other excepted groups," the Justice Department said in a legal brief filed in federal court.

The department's comments were the second piece of good news on Wednesday for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. whose shares climbed.

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