TORONTO: RIM gave its PlayBook Tablet computer the ability to handle e-mail as easily as a BlackBerry does, with new software that eliminates a shortcoming that has throttled sales since the PlayBook launched last April.
Before the software update, which came months after RIM initially promised, a user had to tether the Tablet to a BlackBerry to get e-mail, robbing the PlayBook of the function that made RIM’s smartphones an essential business tool.
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