If you thought RIM was going to cave to foreign countries’ demands to weaken the security of the BlackBerry platform, you were sorely mistaken. RIM’s response is actually quite refreshing (and comical) in an age where big business and government politics are trumping individual freedoms and privacy left and right. Specifically, when questioned about the recent BlackBerry bans spreading around the Middle East, Mike Lazaridis, RIM’s co-CEO had a few choice...

This may very well be some of the stranger news to start a sudo-Monday: A couple of Google employees have come forward, stating that Google is apparently banning Microsoft’s Windows OS from any and all Google-owned computers. Almost immediately, people will focus on Google’s Chrome OS interests as the reasoning. Though, the sources claim it is Windows’ rampant security problems that are the cause for the grief, even going as far as to blame Windows’s...

And the battle wages on… The latest in an almost juvenile yet entertaining (and I’ll admit it, liberating) move by Google has them yet again, sticking it to the red man. We’ve already seen Google close up shop with their .cn search page, choosing to redirect it to google.hk — Hong Kong’s freer flowing version. China responded by filtering results. So Google countered again with another “catch me if you can” by implementing the now...

Terrorists and normal civillians residing in Saudi Arabia have something new to worry about this week — security in regards to BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry handhelds overall. It’s no secret that RIM has an amazingly secure platform and network with the BlackBerry. Sadly, the bad guys have realized this too and have made heavy use of the encrypted and untouchable platform, angering many governments around the globe. The Saudi gov’t has had enough...

Sony loves their customers. Ha, that’s a joke. Need one of many examples? Take for example people who pick up a copy of SOCOM US Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 3 from a used game retailer. Said customers will find a nasty surprise when they get home — online access doesn’t work. That is, online access won’t work unless 2nd hand customers cough up $20 more bucks to Sony. The reason being Sony and other game developer companies hate used game...