April 17, 2011 02:01 am EDT

India wants to spy on Nokia users, BlackBerry fans no longer feel special

Poor Nokia, between having to abandon its Symbian baby and hawk anachronistic wares at a Microsoft event, it's had a pretty rough go of it recently. Now India's Ministry of Home Affairs wants to block the launch of the company's new push email service until a monitoring system can be put in place. According to The Economic Times, the Department of Telecommunications is being asked to hold back the service until the intelligence community has a way to spy on messages being sent. RIM recently fought a similar battle with the Indian government, as well as those in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Looks like the two companies share more in common than just their slip from the top of the smartphone heap.

India wants to spy on Nokia users, BlackBerry fans no longer feel special originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

PermalinkBoy Genius Report | Economic Times ||Comments

Original Link: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/india-wants-to-spy-on-nokia-users-blackberry-fans-no-longer-fee/

View Full Article

Engadget

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics. Engadget was launched in March of 2004 in partnership with the Weblogs, Inc. Network (WI

More About this Source Visit Engadget