Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting an employee with her BlackBerry for the second time.
Allegedly, she threw her Swarovski Crystal encrusted BlackBerry at her maid after accusing her of stealing a pair of $200 Chip and Pepper jeans.
The 41-year-old maid, Ana Scolavino, needed 5 stitches in her head to close the wound she alleges was caused by the BlackBerry being thrown and hitting her, however, Campbell’s lawyer, David Breitbart, feels that the wounds were self inflicted and the whole incident was a case of retaliation after the maid was supposedly fired earlier that morning.
Have you seen that mobile phone commercial where the two guys are in a locker room and the guy with the cell phone wants to show his friend how he is protected against crime by his new phone? He tells his friend to try to attack him then proceeds to throw his mobile into his friends head, not once, but twice as hard has he possibly can. The commercial is quite funny. I am sure that by this weekend something like MadTV or Saturday Night Live will have a skit if something similar only with an actress that looks like Naomi Campbell.
Naomi Campbell
Ok folks. T-Mobile, yesterday morning, had an outage that affected about 5% of their Blackberry users. RIM, however, has not been shutdown. I repeat. RIM was not shut down!
You would not believe all the rumors that have been floating around. My personal favorite was that T-Mobile was testing a partial shutdown just to see how disruptive a full shutdown would actually be.
To clear, let me just say it again. T-Mobile did have a partial BlackBerry outage yesterday morning, however, RIM was not shut down.
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Research in Motion is stating that if the Federal Judge James R. Spencer shuts BlackBerry service down, it could cost U.S. businesses $49 billion.
It is hard to see how disruption to the financial services industry or to Fortune 500 companies would do anything but harm the public interest, according to RIM, which cites a U.S. economist who estimates an injunction would have a $25 billion (U.S.) direct impact on the U.S. economy and $24 billion in indirect effects.
That is a heck of a lot of money, especially if it turns out that the NTP patents that RIM was found guilty of infringing on turn out to be invalid, which, however, by all accounts looks like will be the case when it is all said and done.
Via the Toronto Star
The United States Department of Justice, for the second time, has asked Judge James R. Spencer to hold of on any plans to shutdown BlackBerry maker Research in Motion until it is better understood how it’s users will be exempted.
The department said there had not been enough evidence submitted to show that a plan to exempt government users from the shutdown can be “realistically implemented.”
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I just got an email from a RIMarkable reader named Steffen that has a picture of a BlackBerry being used in Episode 6 of 24. I don’t remember this but think that I still have 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM on Tivo so I will have to go back a take a second look.
24, Jack Bauer, BlackBerry
I just came across a blog called Disabled Hands that has tips for reducing the occurrence of BlackBerry Thumb. The tip that I found the most interesting was using a smaller BlackBerry, such as a 8700 model.
Switch to a smaller Blackberry. One of the main reasons for Blackberry Thumb is the over extension of the thumb, especially true in the bulkier devices like the 7520. To prevent this you should consider switching to a smaller device like the 8700.
My guess is that the same would hold true for 71XX series BlackBerry devices as well. I have used and 7100 for over a year and can honestly tell you that my thumbs have never hurt.
Russell Shaw from BBHub picked up on a story where students enrolled in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith Smith School of Business get a free BlackBerry. Now, I am sure that the free BlackBerry is relative to fully paid tuition and course fees but I didn’t think that a the title “Business Students at the University of Maryland Business School that pay tuition and all their course fees get a BlackBerry subsidized by the cost of said tuition and course fees” had the same ring.
Not to be outdone by the American Music Awards, the Golden Globes, being held next Monday on NBC, is giving a free BlackBerry 8700c along with a gift package valued at $62,000 to all of the celebrity presenters.
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