RIM has settled a long running patent lawsuit filed against it by NTP. The lawsuit threaten to potentially shutdown the Blackberry email service that millions depend on. The $612.5 million dollar settlement insures that email junkies will still be able to get their fix on their Blackberries.
I believe this is just the beginning of troubles for Blackberry. Their monopoly on push email services is over. Microsoft has built push email services into their Exchange email servers. It is easy to install and setup and costs nothing more once you have purchased the Exchange Server. The Blackberry solution costs more and is much more difficult to setup. I setup a remote salesperson for one of our Clients yesterday to be able to receive his Exchange email on his cell phone. It took a total of 15 minutes.
I think RIM has won a battle but the war isn't over.
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