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"ref": "2007, Daniel Hoffman, Blackjacking: Security Threats to BlackBerry® Devices, PDAs, and Cell Phones in the Enterprise, Wiley Publishing, Inc., page 49",
"text": "Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition.",
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"ref": "2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120",
"text": "A few days ago, I took a walk with my wife and did not take my BlackBerry! That's progress. Of course, I reached into my empty pockets six or seven times, so clearly I have a long way to go.",
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"ref": "2014, John Timpson, Ask John: Straight-Talking, Common Sense from the Front Line of Management, Icon Books",
"text": "Posers using BlackBerrys on the button lift can be pretty irritating, but I bet it gives a lot of pleasure whenever an unfortunate captain of industry drops his vital little device in the snow.",
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"ref": "2023, David White, Angus Gillies, “All roads lead north”, in Far North, Echo Publishing",
"text": "Thugga and the rest of the group communicated using BlackBerrys set up so that messages would automatically delete after 48 hours.",
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"roman": "blāk birī",
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"word": "بْلَاك بِيرِي"
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"word": "بْلَاك بِيرِي"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "device (transliterations)",
"word": "黑莓手機"
},
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"roman": "hēiméi shǒujī",
"sense": "device (transliterations)",
"word": "黑莓手机"
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"sense": "device (transliterations)",
"word": "Μπλάκ-μπερη"
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"code": "he",
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"word": "בלקברי"
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"word": "ブラックベリー"
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"sense": "device (transliterations)",
"word": "블랙베리"
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"ref": "2007, Kristin Gore, Sammy's Hill, Miramax Books, published 2007, page 219",
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"ref": "2009, Colleen DeBaise, The Wall Street Journal: Complete Small Business Guidebook, Three Rivers Press, published 2009, page 205",
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"ref": "2012, Matthew Zencey, Unlikely Liberal: Sarah Palin's Curious Record as Alaska's Governor, Potomac Books, published 2012, page 144",
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"ref": "2007, Daniel Hoffman, Blackjacking: Security Threats to BlackBerry® Devices, PDAs, and Cell Phones in the Enterprise, Wiley Publishing, Inc., page 49",
"text": "Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition.",
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},
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"ref": "2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120",
"text": "A few days ago, I took a walk with my wife and did not take my BlackBerry! That's progress. Of course, I reached into my empty pockets six or seven times, so clearly I have a long way to go.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, John Timpson, Ask John: Straight-Talking, Common Sense from the Front Line of Management, Icon Books",
"text": "Posers using BlackBerrys on the button lift can be pretty irritating, but I bet it gives a lot of pleasure whenever an unfortunate captain of industry drops his vital little device in the snow.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023, David White, Angus Gillies, “All roads lead north”, in Far North, Echo Publishing",
"text": "Thugga and the rest of the group communicated using BlackBerrys set up so that messages would automatically delete after 48 hours.",
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"word": "黑莓手機"
},
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"word": "黑莓手机"
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"sense": "device (transliterations)",
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"ref": "2012, Matthew Zencey, Unlikely Liberal: Sarah Palin's Curious Record as Alaska's Governor, Potomac Books, published 2012, page 144",
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