Obama will get an NSA enhanced blackberry

Re:Obama will get an NSA enhanced blackberry by paulgb on Thursday January 22, 2009 @01:20PM (#445149)

Is Blackberry being genericized to mean a smart-phone? The General Dynamics device doesn't look like a modified RIM product.

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Re:Obama will get an NSA enhanced blackberry by blogimus on Thursday January 22, 2009 @02:29PM (#445235)

Only if RIM is unsuccessful at preventing trademark dilution (like Kleenex and Walkman). If you're interested in reading on trademark dilution, I found that Wikipedia has a link to this source at Boston University School of Law: http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/scit...

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Re:Obama will get an NSA enhanced blackberry by jonknee on Thursday January 22, 2009 @02:48PM (#445268)

I think it was just a guess that General Dynamics made the device. Since no one was on the record about anything, they just did a Google search for "secure pda" and came up with that one.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a regular BlackBerry with modified software.

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Re:Obama will get an NSA enhanced blackberry by humanlever on Thursday January 22, 2009 @03:59PM (#445364)

Most likely. The two handsets in the article are reported to run Windows. Blackberry has their own OS.

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