BlackBerrys to be voted into the Commons / Silicon.com, 20 June 2007
http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,39167590,00.htm
Natasha Lomas
"Giving bored MPs something to do with their thumbs..."
The sight of bored MPs slouching in the House of Commons as a long speech drones on could soon be a thing of the past, as moves are afoot to allow MPs to take BlackBerrys into the debating chamber."
Revitalising the Chamber: the role of the back bench Member: First Report of Session 2006–07: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence / TSO, 20 June 2007
PDF - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmmodern/337/337.pdf Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons
HC 337