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Samsung recently announced their new BizBee branding for enterprise smartphones, and it looks like they mean business after bringing on an ex-marketer from Research in Motion, Marcus Stone, as their new head of smartphones in the UK and Ireland. Along with Marcus is Nick France, who will handle business-to-business sales. Surely Marcus’ experience with RIM and BlackBerrys will give Samsung a leg-up in the enterprise market, but no doubt Mr. Stone will bump into a few colleagues while duking it out for customers. I find this just a little funny, as Motorola sued RIM for poaching their software developers in September, and now RIM’s lost one of theirs to the competition. That’s turnover for ya.
[via MobileToday]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
