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RIM Installs Servers in Saudi Arabia to Avoid Blackberry Ban

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 08/09/2010 - 21:28

Alcohol remains off limits, but it looks like Saudis will still be allowed to feed their Crackberry addiction after all.

The Saudi government had said that it would begin blocking Blackberry's instant messaging services on Friday - claiming that by not being allowed to monitor messages, the popular devices and service from Canada's Research in Motion represented a national security risk to the Kingdom.

That Friday deadline was extended to today, and then that extended deadline came and went without any reported disruption in service.

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Ping.fm Service for Millions of Users in the Conduit Network

Small Business Trends  Thu, 07/30/2009 - 04:00

Tulsa, Oklahoma (PRESS RELEASE - July 30, 2009) – Ping.fm, a social networking content publishing service, and Conduit, enabling web publishers to distribute their offerings directly and through its global network of publishers, today announced the distribution of the Ping.fm service using the Conduit platform and Marketplace.

Ping.fm will make its service available in the browser window via the Ping.fm Community Toolbar and in the Conduit Marketplace to other web publishers and users who can add the service to their community toolbars.

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