RIM itself is struggling today with BlackBerry outages (email and BBM), timed quite well is Waterloo-based Kik with the release of the Kik Messenger for BlackBerry devices. It’s been 10 months in the making but Kik stated that this “new version of Kik is crazy fast, beautiful and reliable”. To get around their past legal issues and customer privacy concerns they had to create a universal Java version of the app… just remember that when you accept their permissions you also give them access to scan your contact list.
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