RIM, Apple, Vermillion, Ikea, RIAA: Intellectual Property
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Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, said it is assisting London police investigating the use of the company’s messaging service by rioters to plan disturbances.
“Police have got very extensive monitoring of the BlackBerry Messenger model,” Stephen Kavanagh, deputy assistant commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, told reporters yesterday. “A lot of people who are seeing those messages are forwarding them to police.”