BlackBerry Falls From Executive Suite to Mobs in U.K. Riots

Release Date 10 Aug, 2011 in San Francisco Chronicle

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BlackBerry Falls From Executive Suite to Mobs in U.K. Riots San Francisco Chronicle - 10 Aug, 2011 Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry has become indispensable among executives for its easy-to-use messaging service. That same feature is attracting looters in Britain's worst rioting since the 1980s. In London, 16000 officers ...
RIM, Apple, Vermillion, Ikea, RIAA: Intellectual Property San Francisco Chronicle - 10 Aug, 2011 (This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics. Adds Flagstar item in Patents section.) Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, ...
	London riots sympathizers issue threats to BlackBerry makers Myjoyonline.com - Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona - 10 Aug, 2011 Sympathizers of London rioters have hacked into the official BlackBerry Blog belonging to Research in Motion's (RIM) and posted a treacherous message on their website warning RIM not to assist the police to trace rioters. The hackers said they have ...
	UK riots 2011: Spooks on the trail of BlackBerry Messenger ringleaders Daily Mail - Chris Greenwood, Tim Shipman - 10 Aug, 2011 Twitter has refused to close the accounts of London rioters who used the service to spread unrest and insisted that Tweets must 'continue to flow'. The US-based company said that 'freedom of expression' was essential ...
	UK riots: Untraceable BlackBerry Messenger should be suspended, claims ... Mirror.co.uk - Tom Pettifor, Andrew Gregory - 10 Aug, 2011 AN MP last night called on BlackBerry to shut down its mobile messaging service to stop the rioters terrorising our cities. Attacks have been orchestrated across the country by ...
	Celebrities tweet concerns over London riots gulfnews.com - 10 Aug, 2011 London: Celebrities are taking to Twitter to voice their concern, and in one case support, for the London riots. Teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber called on his fans to once again use the power of prayer to get them through. ...
BlackBerry becomes a weapon for rioters Economic Times - 10 Aug, 2011 TORONTO: With rioters in Britain using BlackBerry to direct fellow looters to spread mayhem in cities across the country, Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has promised to cooperate with British authorities. The riots erupted last week after ...
Research In Motion, Apple, Vermillion, Ikea, RIAA: Intellectual Property Bloomberg - Victoria Slind-Flor - 10 Aug, 2011 Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), 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. ...
Youths answer Twitter call-out for riot clean-up TVNZ - 10 Aug, 2011 Images of youths looting, fire-ravaged buildings and smashed windows are being replaced by pictures of volunteers with brooms and rubbish bags. Hundreds of young Londoners have taken to the streets to clean up the destruction caused by rioters. ...
Hackers deface Blackberry blog site over UK riot mess GMANews.TV - 10 Aug, 2011 Hackers defaced Tuesday the blog site of mobile communication firm Blackberry amid reports it will assist British police in cracking down on riots by imposing a curfew on its Blackberry Messenger service. TriCk and TeaMp0isoN also posted a message on ...
BlackBerry's Fall From Executive Suite to London Looters May Bruise Brand Bloomberg - Jonathan Browning, Amy Thomson - 10 Aug, 2011 A policeman walks past the charred remains of the Reeves furniture store in Croydon following a third night of violence on the streets of London. A policeman walks past the charred ...
BlackBerry messaging singled out in U.K. riots Montreal Gazette - Derek Abma - 10 Aug, 2011 Canada's most prominent technology company finds itself at the centre of the debate on how social media shapes riots and the response as violence and looting continues in the United Kingdom. ...
Magid on Tech: BlackBerry Messenger helping keep London riots in motion San Jose Mercury News - Larry Magid - 10 Aug, 2011 Depending on one's perspective, Twitter and Facebook have been credited and blamed for helping to organize uprisings in Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. But when it comes to the recent London riots, BlackBerry Messenger ...
London riots: MP calls for BlackBerry Messenger block Sydney Morning Herald - Georgina Prodhan, Alastair Sharp - 10 Aug, 2011 A lawmaker has called for BlackBerry's instant messaging service to be suspended after rioters used it to mobilise in London and other British cities. David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, where London's worst riots for decades began on ...
Click-and-send smartphone device of choice for rioters Irish Times - John Collins - 10 Aug, 2011 ORGANISING VIOLENCE: LONG THE preserve of busy executives, BlackBerry smartphones have been revealed by the London riots as very popular with young city dwellers. Invented by Canadian firm Research in Motion to give mobile access to e-mail to business ...
Riots Spread on Social Media, as Does the Cleanup New York Times (blog) - Jennifer Preston - 10 Aug, 2011 After three nights of riots and looting in a handful of London neighborhoods, volunteers used Twitter and Facebook to help mobilize hundreds of people today to clean up the mess. Using the hashtag #riotcleanup and a new Twitter ...
	Atwitter over a Tweeted call: Pray for London Christian Science Monitor - 10 Aug, 2011 Three days of riots in London and beyond have spawned a Twitter movement �" a call to #prayforlondon �" and an event. Firefighters put out the fires in a furniture store in Croydon, south London. The violence and looting in London is the worst since the ...
BlackBerry hacked for cooperating with London police CNN International - Brandon Griggs - 10 Aug, 2011 The London police are posting photos of suspected rioters on their Flickr page and asking the public to help identify them. (CNN) -- After three days of rioting and looting in the streets, London's unrest is moving to the Web. ...
RIM's dilemma: BlackBerry fueled riots put core privacy principles at risk ZDNet (blog) - Zack Whittaker - 10 Aug, 2011 Summary: The BlackBerry maker faces a dilemma: give up encrypted riot-user message data, but lose ground in the niche and unique privacy messaging market. Research in Motion, the BlackBerry maker, ...
	Blackberry maker threatened for helping British police AFP - 10 Aug, 2011 OTTAWA �" Research In Motion was threatened with reprisals Tuesday if it released encrypted communications of its British Blackberry users to help British police quell days of violent looting. A group or person identified only as Team Poison hacked ...
	London riots 2011: 'BlackBerry Messenger hasn't been shut down, unbelievable!' Daily Mail - 10 Aug, 2011 By Daily Mail Reporter There were calls today to shut down the BlackBerry Messenger service which is thought to have played a key role in helping mobilise looters involved in the riots across London. Mike Butcher, a technology journalist and digital ...
BlackBerry messenger 'curfew' expected to hinder rioting Channel 4 News - 10 Aug, 2011 The Tottenham MP David Lammy has called for the mobile phone company Blackberry to suspend it's messaging services after evidence that the gangs of rioters are using it to communicate with each other and outwit the authorities.
London 'broom people' rally against rioters Ninemsn - 10 Aug, 2011 By ninemsn staff A photo taken during a London riots clean-up inspired by Twitter has been viewed more than 100000 times all over the world. The image of an army of locals, brooms raised in the air, has become a powerful symbol of how Londoners are ...
Buzz Out Loud 1527: London's burning thanks to BBM (Podcast) CNET (blog) - Molly Wood - 10 Aug, 2011 On today's show, RIM's BlackBerry blog is hacked after it cooperates with police over BlackBerry Messenger's role in coordinating the ongoing London riots. Also, lightning strikes an Amazon Web server and half the Internet goes down (or was it solar ...
London rioters plan on Blackberries as RIM speaks to police Computerworld - Leo King - 10 Aug, 2011 Computerworld UK - p>Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion has promised to work closely with police after claims that rioters who spread destruction across London, Birmingham and Liverpool Monday night night used their Blackberry ...
RIM blog hacked in warning over London unrest CBS News - 10 Aug, 2011 The official Blackberry blog was hacked earlier today in retaliation for Research in Motion's apparent decision to assist the London police. It's still unclear what assistance, if any, RIM has extended to the London police, who are combating street ...
BlackBerry blog hacked after RIM helps police in London riots Los Angeles Times - 10 Aug, 2011 Research In Motion's Inside BlackBerry blog was hacked on Tuesday after the Canadian smartphone maker said it would cooperate with London police who are investigating the role of BlackBerry users in the city's last three days of riots. ...
	London Riots 2011: Protesters Use BlackBerry Messenger; Hackers Back Them ABC News - Ned Potter - 10 Aug, 2011 A masked man walks past a burning car outside a Carhartt store in Hackney, Aug. 8, 2011, in London. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) The riots raging across north London have been fueled, in part, by the use of BlackBerry ...
	Blackberry Website Hacked in Wake of London Riots Fox News - 10 Aug, 2011 Hackers defaced as website belonging to Blackberry maker Research in Motion, after the company said it would help London police track investigate days of rioting. LONDON �" Hackers defaced a website belonging to Blackberry maker Research in Motion ...
Tottenham Riots: Crowdsourcing The London Riot Cleanup Huffington Post - 10 Aug, 2011 As David Cameron rushed home from his Tuscan holiday, Londoners bound together on Twitter and Facebook to start the clean up. The first person to organize the endeavor was artist Dan Thompson. After watching the city set ablaze on the news from his ...