RIM finally agrees to set up server in India

Canada-based, Research in Motion (RIM), who're better known as the makers of the popular BlackBerry line of smartphones have, according to reports given in to the demands of the Indian government to set up servers in the country, affirms The Hindu. For those not in the know, the security agencies in the country found it difficult to monitor the brand's popular messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger, owing to the service's encrypted nature, giving the government sleepless nights. For over three years, the security agencies in the country have been trying to get the company to install local servers, so that they could access and monitor the stream of messages going back and forth to implement better security in the country. In one of our earlier reports, we had indicated that the government was very close to achieving this breakthrough move, but at that time, a confirmation was awaited.

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