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The US government has indicted the CEO of Phantom Secure, Vincent Ramos alongside four associates on the account that they " knowingly and intentionally conspiring with criminal organisations by providing them with the technological tools to evade law enforcement and obstruct justice while committing transnational drug trafficking," the CNBC reported. Phantom Secure is a company that sells modified Blackberry and Samsung phones. The charges allege that the said company has generated about $80m annual revenue since 2008 and has obstructed justice and enhanced drug trafficking all over the world. With the modified encrypted phones, the messages became highly secured to help them evade justice. [caption id="attachment_10640" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The FBI has arrested the CEO of Phantom Secure, Vincent Ramos for knowingly "conspiring" with criminals [/caption] This investigation marks the first time the US law enforcement will cl...

BlackBerry (and not TCL, the producer of BlackBerry-marked handsets since 2016) has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for encroaching the patent on its messaging technology patents in a Los Angeles Federal Court, as per a Reuters report. The claim says Facebook, WhatsApp and also Instagram infringed on its technology in the area of instant messaging. BlackBerry is suing Facebook over patents on the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), which used to be a popular service. BBM enabled users to send and get messages and pictures without costs to them from service providers and was from various perspectives an early form of WhatsApp and other instant messaging services. The claim asserts that Facebook "created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry"s innovations, using a number of the innovative security, user interface, and functionality enhancing features that made BlackBerry"s products such a critical and commercial success in the first place" according to CNET ....