{"id":3960,"date":"2005-11-30T22:14:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/blackberry-up-to-their-neck.html"},"modified":"2005-11-30T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T22:14:16","slug":"blackberry-up-to-their-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/blackberry-up-to-their-neck.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry Up To Their Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"2\">Yes indeed Blackberry is <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2005\/nov\/1216130.htm\"><font size=\"2\">up to their neck<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> in, well you know. Their service is in jeopardy of being shut down in the <country-region w:st=\"on\" \/><place w:st=\"on\" \/>US<\/place \/><\/country-region \/> but few analysts think this will happen. They could be forced to spend a billion dollars to settle the dispute. Ouch.<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/blackberry.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/rates-technology-inc.html\"><font size=\"2\">conversation<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> with Jerry Weinberger of Rates Technology earlier this year, he made a point to tell me that Canadian companies aren\u2019t as concerned about US patents as they should be. I am paraphrasing a bit but that was the gist of what I remember.<\/p>\n<p>He seems to be pretty correct. At least at this juncture.<br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes indeed Blackberry is up to their neck in, well you know. Their service is in jeopardy of being shut down in the US but few analysts think this will happen. They could be forced to spend a billion dollars to settle the dispute. Ouch. In my conversation with Jerry Weinberger of Rates Technology earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,202,215,212,218,197,186,221,116,189,211,118,191,219,175],"tags":[259,385,481,482,483,386],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}