03:36 PM EST - Research In Motion : announced that the BlackBerry® 7.1 operating system has been approved for U.K. government use by CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance in the UK. The approval enables public sector workers to utilize the enhanced performance and rich functionality of the latest BlackBerry® smartphones available in the U.K.
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