London riots: BlackBerry to help police probe Messenger looting ‘role’

The maker of the BlackBerry, Research in Motion, said on Monday night that it would co-operate with a police investigation into claims that its popular BlackBerry Messenger service played a key role in organising the London riots.Scotland Yard vowed to track down and arrest protesters who posted “really inflammatory, inaccurate” messages on the service, and the social networking websites Twitter and Facebook.To read this report in The Guardian in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/08/london-riots-blackberry-messenger-looting

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