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Motorola had acquired Good Technologies back in ’06 for $500 million, pumping out a few enterprise push e-mail solutions for mobile, but clearly that acquisition hasn’t paid off, as rival Visto has picked up Good for an undisclosed amount. From the BlackBerry standpoint, I tended to scoff at just about any other attempting the push e-mail game, but these guys are really nothing to sneeze at. In fact, Visto and RIM had traded legal blows a bit last year, and before that, Good had worked with NTP, a patent firm which cost RIM a pretty penny in infringement claims. Motorola didn’t do a great job managing their acquisition, but maybe with Visto behind the wheel, RIM will have a runner-up they’ll actually have to worry about. The deal should be wrapped up by the end of February.
[via PRNewsWire]
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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.
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