Despite the headline, it really isn’t a laughing matter, folks. In Lank, India, the council has restricted unmarried women from using mobile phones, lest they arrange marriages behind their fathers’ backs – a crime that’s punishable by death.
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The Android Market doesn’t have anywhere near the vetting process that the App Store does. That’s great for openness, but sometimes some bad apples slip through. Like this recently banned text message forwarding app, Secret SMS Replicator.
A couple of months of wrangling between the United Arab Emirates and RIM over the overseas storage of BlackBerry data have come to a close today, with a ban on email and BBM being lifted. Hear the joyous clicks of BBMs!
Apparently British teenager Luke Angel made a mistake recently: He wrote an email while drunk. Of course, such a little mistake easily turns into a lifetime ban from America when it contains an obscenity and is addressed to President Obama.
In a move that follows that of many like-minded European and Asian countries, China has introduced regulations that require an ID to purchase a mobile phone. What’s causing concern in this case – at least more so than some others – is China’s history of censorship.
Research In Motion may have come to some sort of arrangement with Saudi Arabia over the handling of BlackBerry services data, but will they succumb to India’s threats? They’ve been handed an August 31 deadline by the government, who’ll switch BBM and email services off unless RIM gives them security access.
Those wondering why Saudi Arabia went ahead and switched BlackBerry service back on over the weekend may have their answer: according to MSNBC, Research In Motion has handed over user codes that will let the country track individual users.
Unlike Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait does not yet have a ban or looming ban in place for BlackBerry smartphones and associated services. But it could, as Kuwaiti officials have today expressed “moral and security” concerns about the devices.
Yesterday morning, the Saudi Arabian government made good on their promise to turn off BlackBerry data service over security concerns. But as of right now, BBC reports that BlackBerry service is up and running nationwide, and no one’s quite sure why. Updated.
