RIM denies data agreement with India

Source:Derek Abma, Financial Post

Research In Motion Ltd. defended itself on two fronts Thursday, denying reports it had reached a deal with the Indian government to provide access to BlackBerry messages in that country and maintaining that the battery life in its embryonic PlayBook tablet computer was comparable to that of rivals already on the market.

The Waterloo, Ont.-based maker of smartphones said the report in India’s Economic Times was “inaccurate and misleading” in saying that RIM had offered to install a “network-data analysis system” that would “automatically decode all data flowing on RIM’s network.”