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Verizon mulls heavily-discounted BlackBerry Storm "Free. That’s Vodafone’s (VOD) recently-unveiled price for the hotly-anticipated touchscreen BlackBerry Storm from Research in Motion (RIM) in the United Kingdom. In a sign of just how desperate phone companies are to lock customers in to lengthy contracts, Verizon’s (VZ) wireless partner is willing to subsidize the Storm – which sells for about $500 without a calling plan – in order to lure subscribers in England. Though a final decision ha
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After seeing how Vodafone is going to play the whole BlackBerry Storm deal, Verizon Wireless might pull a similar trick. The Storm is going to be available for pretty silly prices in Europe at a first glance. But the monthly charges will surely make up for that. So is Verizon getting ready to unveil its lower than lowest Storm prices? Is the giant carrier ready to pull one of the best pricing offers of the holidays? Are we going to have a $99 Verizon Wireless Storm? via CNN Related PostsVo
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Verizon Mulling Pricing Options For BlackBerry Storm By Matt Kapko - Fri 31 Oct 2008 04:12 PM PST How low will Verizon (NYSE: VZ) go with the BlackBerry Storm? Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), which owns a stake in the carrier, is offering the device for free to customers willing to lock themselves into lengthy contracts in the U.K., and now Verizon is considering a similar strategy in the U.S., CNN reports. The first-ever touchscreen device from BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion retails for about $
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RIM may be doing great lately, with its Bold and Storm and all, but there’s someone that says the Canadian company shouldn’t be that happy. Mformation Technologies Inc., an “innovator in mobile device management software” based in Edison, New Jersey, today sued Research in Motion Limited and its US subsidiary, Research In Motion Corporation, for patent infringement. Apparently, RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones are using management software that leverages on some systems and methods invent
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Mformation Technologies files patent suit against RIM October 31st, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Mformation Technologies Inc., a mobile device management software company, said late Friday it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Research In Motion and its U.S. subsidiary, Research In Motion Corp., over the company’s Blackberry devices. Mformation Technologies alleges in its lawsuit that Research In Motion infringes two of its patents related to methods of “remote device managem
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