For Feds, No BlackBerry Blacklist

Attention BlackBerry-obsessed federal employees: The Justice Department has your back. The department has filed a "statement of interest" in the massive patent dispute case involving BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion Ltd., saying that even if a judge orders the company to temporarily stop selling the devices (and the e-mail service that goes with them), federal workers must be allowed to continue using them. "It is imperative that some mechanism be incorporated that permits continuity of the federal government's use of BlackBerry devices," the filing said.