U.S. Government Gives The Thumbs Up BlackBerry Playbook The First Tablet Approved For Use Federal

BlackBerry playbook has become the first tablet to obtain the certificate necessary to use the federal agencies of the United States.

RIM first test tablets received Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification, which is necessary for any hope of gadget used by the White House and all other departments.

Doubt on the procedures for RIM excellent security was essential to get the compressed green light from the federal government - is the management of enterprise-class, which so far has kept its own playbook to get high-app-e mail, dependent on BlackBerry smartphones "exchange providing complete e-mail, contacts and calendars on the shelf.

Safety First

Regardless, RIM is pretty happy with the new - Scott Totzke, Vice President, RIM BlackBerry Security said: "This certification demonstrates our ongoing commitment to meet the needs of organizations concerned with security and makes the U.S. federal government to buy with confidence to know that playbook meet their requirements of IT policy to protect sensitive information. "

So the next time you're in the land of the free, so keep an eye on the suit with 7-inch tablets and frustrated grimaces on their faces, they are safe to surf the BlackBerry App World and find something 'useful.

But hey - at least do it properly.

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Rumors Playbook To Shut Down WiFi: RIM Denies

Last, there were rumors about RIM's plans to move its Wi-Fi only playbook out of the market. Although the company was quick to issue a denial, and claims that the tablet is outstanding and will be launched in several countries, but there is no smoke without fire, right?

The rumor was apparently started by OTR Global, and was supported by RBC Capital Markets. The tablet was launched in April this year, he met with moderate success is said to be in the way of low production due to weak demand. The Canadian company currently only has Wi-Fi market model, but is preparing to launch 3G and 4G models later this year.

So the company can deny that the decision of the board, but rumor has launched a major question mark over the viability of compressed risk of the company. RIM says that now focus on improving its operating system QNX, which intends to use for their tablets and smartphones.

Research in Motion quashed rumors laconic "pure fiction. There is no plan to stop the" tweet. The company also said it had sent 500,000 Playbooks in the first quarter of fiscal year. Meanwhile, Apple has sold about 25 million Cases world. But we will not rain on the parade of RIM. Half a million units for sale is a big problem for a pill that does not even have a dedicated email client. So well done, RIM

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BlackBerry OS 1.0.5 Update Adds Playbook Of Payments Under Management, Improved Energy

RIM has released a second set of samples simply update operating system for tablet strategies, bumping the version 1.0.5 and add a series of subtle but welcome improvements.

Several adjustments have been made in the upper right corner of your desktop strategies, including a widget much better effect. Tap the battery icon is now invoking a menu that allows users to adjust the brightness of the screen and restart, turn off or on standby playbook. A cursor has also been added which allows the screen brightness be adjusted playbook, and the operating system will now warn users if a source undernourished load is connected to the mini-USB port. After the 1.0.5 update, the playbook will also load completely off of everything.

Another important development is the arrival of the payments under which, without doubt, be a good way of numerous publications and video games are now available for the playbook. The real reason for that matter, of course, is that one day soon you can buy additional content for birds angry - that is due to land in the world of application this summer. It is also easier to connect to public Wi-Fi today - such as cafes and airports - thanks to the advent of automatic detection of the access point. A handful of other languages ​​are compatible with the operating system of the tablet, as well as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and British English.

It will be interesting to see if the 1.0.5 update of the system takes the playbook of the battery life is reduced to some users experienced after the previous update. As always, the update is available on the airwaves, if the tap through the display settings and then give the software updates affect a bag. Now if you had to rush to do with the support of the application for Android, we will all be together ...

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