{"id":108,"date":"2010-08-01T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/08\/iphone-1-blackberry-0.html"},"modified":"2016-12-18T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T10:59:10","slug":"iphone-1-blackberry-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/08\/iphone-1-blackberry-0.html","title":{"rendered":"iphone 1 blackberry 0?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority have handed iPhone users a reason to feel smug &#8211; Blackberry services (messenger, email and web browsing) will be suspended in the UAE from the 11th October, according to today&#8217;s sad news.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!--more-->Essentially this is because traffic and more specifically I would imagine ,content, cannot be monitored on the Blackberry network as it&#8217;s encrypted to the device. Another probable, although unstated reason, is that Blackberry Messenger (BBM) allows you to send messages to other BB users without extra charge.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI am a very happy Blackberry owner, and have found it indispensable now that I am not 100% desk-bound. As a business tool for answering and sending emails it is invaluable, and I love BBM.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is not good news. I am hoping there will be some clarifications on this, but I am not holding my breath on this one.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority have handed iPhone users a reason to feel smug &#8211; Blackberry services (messenger, email and web browsing) will be suspended in the UAE from the 11th October, according to today&#8217;s sad news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrrrr","category-sniff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}