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Etisalat's blackberry update was 'spyware', says RIM

  • United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, July 22 - 2009 at 14:16

The company that produces the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device has distanced itself from a recent software patch sent to its UAE customers by Etisalat, and called into question statements made by the operator, reported The National. Research In Motion said the Etisalat software — labelled as 'spyware' by a prominent mobile security company — is 'not a patch and it is not a RIM authorised upgrade'. The company said 'independent sources have concluded that the Etisalat update is not designed to improve performance of your BlackBerry hand-held, but rather to send received messages back to a central server'.

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