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BBC suspends Blackberry use after email leaks
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:58:57 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk> Date: October 27, 2005 5:52:58 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: BBC suspends Blackberry use after email leaks Hi Dave: From today's (UK) Guardian newspaper:
BBC suspends Blackberry use after email leaks Owen Gibson, media correspondent Thursday October 27, 2005 The GuardianThe BBC yesterday admitted that it had been forced to suspend its Blackberry email service after senior executives reported that portions of other people's electronic conversations were appearing in the middle of their own messages.Among the electronic conversations to have been distributed to other users are said to be one in which BBC1 controller Peter Fincham commented on the suitability of Cilla Black for BBC1.The combined email, phone and internet device has proved so addictive within certain executive circles that it has been called the "crackberry", with users obsessively checking for new email messages whether at home or on the move.
. . . Full story at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1601142,00.html cheers Brian --School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
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