This however means that exiting BB devices, the new BB10 devices and the non-BB devices will require separate services.

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Then, as if on cue, a New York Times news alert crossed my new BB 9930.

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But I believe the new BB 10 devices will give users all the bells and whistles they expect while giving enterprises the control and security they demand.

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To be sure, RIM will still support BES 5 for the foreseeable future but it is clearly counting on organisations upgrading all their existing BB devices to the new BB10 ones.

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They include a Queens, New York man who was shot in the forehead by a BB gun as he left a temple.

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The pattern was also clear in the new-issue market where single B clearing yields gapped out 13 bps versus those of BB loans, which remain in high demand not just from institutional loan accounts but banks and cross-over investors.

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