BlackBerry under fire from rival software firms
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry mobile email service is under attack from a number of competitors with the most recent assault coming from Good Technology Inc. and Seven Networks Inc. The two companies recently inked agreements with Sprint Corp. Good signed a deal with Cingular Wireless last month to sell the service. Good also has plans to adapt its mobile email software to work with email systems from IBM’s Lotus Notes and Domino, as well as Microsoft Corp. Exchange server.

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 Americans don’t seem to be that interested in using their cell phones to watch television, according to figures released by TNS Telecoms. The research firm notes that cell phone TV service ranked lower than other wireless services such as weather and traffic information by a margin of two to one. According to the data, about 10% of Americans are interested in accessing television programming over their cell phones. Receiving weather and traffic alerts via text messaging rather than video came in as desirable by 20% of the survey respondents.

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