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RIM and Visto have been trading legal blows over push technology patents for years now, and despite a victory in the UK, RIM has decided to pay $267.5 million in settlement to just put this thing to bed. It’s not quite the $618 million settlement RIM paid to NTP back in the day, but this is sure to sting less than the ongoing legal fees that the whole process will cost RIM in the long run. Motorola had sold Visto to Good Technologies in February, the biggest runner-up to push e-mail against BlackBerry, and this settlement could easily be seen as a win for them. Still, anyone looking for serious push e-mail will pick up a BlackBerry – Good is a decent alternative if you happen to use Windows Mobile, is all.
[via RIM]
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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.
