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You might have heard that cell networks were incredibly clogged during President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony yesterday. That’s to be expected, at such a historic and hopeful occasion – I know that the live feed from the Facebook page was positively abuzz with status updates, and many folks were even having issues getting the streaming video to work. One network that didn’t have any problems, however, was RIM’s. BlackBerrys use servers set up in Waterloo, thus mitigating a lot of the traffic issues that come up when running through the service provider alone.
On that note, we also heard that although Obama will be requisitioned a Windows Mobile Sectera Edge for all things top secret, he’ll still be able to keep his BlackBerry 8830 for personal use. Personally, I’d like to know his Brickbreaker score…
[via Canadian Press]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
