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RIM’s legal chief resigns, layoffs coming soon
According to a Globe and Mail report, RIM’s top lawyer, Ms. Karima Bawa, has resigned from the struggling handset maker. Bawa joined RIM in 2000 and became Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel in 2010. Her resignation follows the departure of Patrick Spence, RIM’s head of global sales, last week. To make matters even worse, RIM is rumored to start a restructuring program that could trim RIM’s workforce by several thousand jobs. These 2,000 layoffs may be one of several cuts the company makes this year. Sources familiar with the … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
RIM turns away from licensing BlackBerry OS or BlackBerry Messenger
We won’t be seeing the popular BlackBerry Messenger service coming to our iOS or Android phones anytime soon, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. While RIM was once heavily considering licensing its Messenger service to other manufacturers as a way to bring in some extra cash, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has indicated that RIM’s main focus for the next several months will be BlackBerry 10, the operating system RIM hopes will compete with the juggernauts of Android and iOS. RIM’s fall from grace has been very drastic … Read more
Anthony Domanico
RIM head of global sales leaves after 14 years on the job
Another top RIM executive is leaving the company, potentially indicating troubled times ahead for the ailing smartphone maker. The latest casualty is Patrick Spense, a self-proclaimed “BlackBerry Believer” who headed up RIM’s global sales division, and has been with the company for the last 14 years. The move comes as RIM is hoping to rebuild itself as a prominent player in the smartphone market with BlackBerry 10. RIM issued the following statement to The Wall Street Journal on the Spense news: “I can confirm that Patrick Spence, Head of Global Sales … Read more
Anthony Domanico
Apple tops HP in mobile PC sales
Thanks in large part to its iPad tablet computer, Apple has been crowned the king in mobile PC sales, according to an NPD report. NPD defines mobile PCs as tablet and laptop computers, the latter of which has been completely dominated by Apple’s iPad line of devices. Apple is estimated to have sold a whopping 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1 2012, approximately 13.6 million of which were iPads. This number is up over 1.5 million from the 12 million Apple reported in their fiscal Q2 2012 earnings report from April. … Read more
Anthony Domanico
Apple at the top, RIM at the bottom of customer satisfaction survey
When it comes to customer satisfaction, Apple dominates and RIM struggles. The 2012 ACSI report was the first time Apple, RIM, HTC, and LG were included in the cell phone manufacturer satisfaction category, making for an interesting inaugural cellular satisfaction report. The 2012 report shows that Apple has amassed a staggering 83% customer satisfaction ranking, becoming the first cellular company to break the 80% mark. Apple was a full 8 percentage points ahead of Nokia, HTC, and LG, who shared the number 2 spot at a 75% rating. Motorola and Samsung … Read more
Anthony Domanico
RIM announces the BlackBerry Curve 9220, 9320
RIM has officially taken the wraps off of the BlackBerry Curve 9220 and 9320 devices, rumored to be coming soon to the US and UK markets. The Curve 9320 features RIM’s socially-driven BlackBerry OS 7.1, the Curve’s customary 2.44″ 320 x 240 display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 1,450mAh battery, FM Radio, microSD slot, and QWERTY keyboard. The Curve 9320 stands out from the rest by featuring a hard BBM button on the side of the device, granting Curve 9320 owners quick access to the popular messaging feature. The Curve 9220 … Read more
Anthony Domanico
RIM patents angled keyboard for quicker, more accurate typing
RIM has just been granted a patent filed in 2009 that is sure to make “V for Vendetta” fans squeal with delight. RIM’s patent is for an angled keyboard that features trapezoidal keys as opposed to the customary squarish shape featured on most of RIM’s smartphones. The new keyboard layout would give users a higher chance of hitting the right key, and each key will have a slightly larger surface area than its predecessors. The result looks like a bunch of V’s on top of each other. The keyboard patent … Read more
Anthony Domanico
RIM hires new chief operating officer, new marketing officer
Research in Motion (RIM) just announced two new hires to its executive leadership team, employing Kristian Tear as COO and Frank Boulben as CMO. This move is apart of new RIM boss Thorsten Heins’ massive restructuring of the company to get rid of some of the “fat on the hip,” as he called it. These hires are also apart of Heins’ operation ‘laser focus’. Who is Kristian Tear and Frank Boulben, you ask? Well, Tear comes to RIM from Sony Mobile, where he most recently worked as executive VP, while … Read more
Charles West
RIM: Scalado powers BlackBerry 10′s camera timeline features
When RIM showed off the camera enhancements built into BlackBerry 10, many in the tech community were impressed. After all, the technology takes successive photos, and allows you to pick parts of the image from each photo and merge it into one finished product, which can come in quite handy if one of the people in your photo blinked during the capture. This wasn’t the first time we’ve heard of such a technology. Back in February, a company called Scalado demoed a similar camera technology, Scalado Remove, to major tech … Read more
Anthony Domanico
RIM CEO talks about BlackBerry 10, challenges
We’re still at the BlackBerry World 2012 conference and CEO Thorsten Heins addressed the media about the company’s need for a “laser focus.” While we covered the main beats of his nearly 45-minute long talk with the media, we were also live-tweeting the event. If you missed it, we’ve pulled in some of the more important tweets below and as always, be sure to follow @IntoMobile on Twitter for up-to-the-minute updates on the latest in the mobile world. We’re live from #BBWC and RIM CEO Thorsten Heins is going to … Read more
Marin Perez
RIM CEO: We need ‘laser focus’
Fresh off the first showing of BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins outlined his vision for the company moving forward. After holding the top spot for about three months, Heins said the company needed “laser focus” in order to be successful. During RIM’s last earnings call, there were some rumors that it would be abandoning the consumer market. This isn’t true, as Heins said he was talking about the company’s disperate consumer services that weren’t at the core of what BlackBerry does. The consumer market is a valuable … Read more