Jaipur, Oct 10
(IANS) A Jaipur-based software firm claims to have found
an answer to the problem that BlackBerry users will face
if the government decides to ban its messenger and
corporate e-mail services.
Data Infosys, an IT Services company and the largest
Internet Service Provider in Rajasthan, is going to
launch Bharat Berry, an India-compliant service for the
existing users of BlackBerry phones who are worried
about disruption of BlackBerry's messaging and email
services.
BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) and
India's government are at present holding talks over
access to BlackBerry services for an intelligence
agency. The government had threatened to ban
Blackberry's corporate email and messenger services if
the Canada-based firm failed to comply with Indian
security norms.
Unchecked terrorist activities are the major concern of
security agencies as it can escape detection by using
BlackBerry's coded services.
'The Bharat Berry service on a BlackBerry handset
ensures that you remain connected to your email,
calendar and contacts through the servers hosted in
India,' Ajay Data, CEO of Data Infosys Limited, told
IANS here.
In addition, Bharat Berry provides over-the-air (OTA)
synchronization of calendar, contacts and works with
your personal or organisation mail accounts, he said.
'Bharat Berry works through a mix of its very advanced
email server known as XGeNPlus, and open source
technologies. Our servers are hosted in India; hence
there is no compliance issue,' said Data, a Ph.D. in
Electronic Data Processing from Netherlands.
XGenPlus is an advanced email server which has been
integrated using open source technologies.
Open source technologies can enable universal access to
all users as the codes are available freely.
The Bharat Berry software can be downloaded from the
website www.bharatberry.com. For enabling access to all
services including e-mails, users will be charged Rs.100
per month, while to ensure access and synchronisation of
calendar and contacts the user will have to pay Rs.50
per month.
'We have tested the service thoroughly on all BlackBerry
models and it works well with all of them. It is a
completely secure, fully tested, and totally reliable
service,' claimed Data.
'Currently the software is targeted on BlackBerry
handsets and by next month, it will be supporting all
major mobile handsets based on Symbian, Android, Windows
Mobile and J2ME, which will cover all major mobile
handset providers like Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, etc.,'
he said.
Symbia, Android, Windows Mobile are mobile software
platforms used by various manufacturers.
The messenger service of the BlackBerry device can still
not be tracked as RIM has stated that it is not possible
for the company to provide the security agencies access
to its encrypted mail and messenger service as it did
not possess a 'master key' for interception.
The government has extended an earlier deadline of Aug
31 by two months to allow BlackBerry -- which has one
million subscribers in the country -- access to its
encrypted email message for security reasons.
(Anil Sharma can be contacted at
anil.s@ians.in ) |
