The German government has banned minsters from using iPhone and BlackBerry devices.

"A general ban on the use of smartphones in certain German ministries is also being considered, Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière confirmed to the country’s business daily newspaper Handelsblatt," writes The Register's Kelly Fiveash.

"He said that ministers and senior civil servants had been told to instead use Simko2 gadgets offered by T-Systems, following advice from the German federal office for information security (BSI)," Fiveash writes. "Berlin expressed concern that data for the BlackBerry smartphone passes through two Research in Motion centres in the UK and Canada."

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