Sadly, it's not over: BBM Canada, a Toronto-based broadcast industry group that has used the BBM moniker in one way or another for six decades, wants to reclaim its name -- used and made popular by RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service -- and has filed a lawsuit against the phone maker for trademark infringement.

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However, the popular instant-messaging service Blackberry Messenger - known colloquially as BBM - is absent from the upgrade.

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Officers believe some rioters have used Blackberry Messenger - a service allowing users to send free real-time messages - to organise violence.

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On Thursday, Mr. Heins hinted at some new possibilities for generating service revenue, including leveraging the company's popular BlackBerry messenger service and its security- and business-focused offerings.

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It still supports the modes of communications that iChat did -- including AIM and Yahoo Messenger -- but also does iMessages, Apple's own super-smart text messaging service which already works on iPhones and iPads. iMessages don't count against any text-message allotment you get from your wireless carrier, and they do things conventional text messages can't, such as tell you when the person on the other end has seen them.

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Mr. Heins said the company is looking at a number of options to replace that revenue, from licensing the company's popular BlackBerry Messenger service, to leveraging advanced security and business-focused offerings.

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Blackberry's owner Research in Motion has said it is co-operating with a police investigation into claims that its BlackBerry Messenger service played a key role in organising the London riots.

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There have been hacks involving MSN Messenger to relay feeds, but a more mainstream offering -- perhaps a partnership with a feed aggregation service, would greatly enhance personalization.

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