Is RIM facing a black future?
(Emirates News Agency (WAM) (United Arab Emirates) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dubai, July 27th, 2010 /WAM/ — The adoption of modern technologies in the UAE has been as rapid as the country s economic growth, presenting big challenges for local laws and social norms, said a Dubai-based newspaper. In the Emirates, the internet is monitored and sexual or political content deemed inappropriate is blocked. Skype s voice-over-IP web site, which allows people to make international calls over the internet, has also been blocked, leaving the duopoly of state-owned telcos Etisalat and du to hold the market, the paper 7DAYS said in a report carried today in its online edition. Now the UAE seems to have turned its attention to the services of Research in Motion s /RIM/ BlackBerry, the popular business mobile phone. “There has been a trend in the region where regulators or government are becoming concerned about Blackberry,” Matt Reed, Middle East and Africa senior analyst at Informa Telecoms, to
