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Whether you love BlackBerry or hate it, there’s no escaping the fact that consumer demand for RIM’s devices has dramatically decreased over the past few years. Even worse, it doesn’t seem like RIM has even the slightest clue as to how to fix the mess. However Jim Balsillie, the company’s former co-CEO who stepped down…
BlackBerry has announced a handful of applications that will become BBM connected over the next few weeks. Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry Travel, BlackBerry App World, and BlackBerry Music will all see apps updated in the next 10 days that will allow users to interact with BBM friends within these applications. You’ll be able to do things…
A user on the Crackberry forum is posting pictures of what he claims to be a PlayBook 4G. Could this be the next version of the Research In Motion tablet? To be clear, this could be a fake but he does post some other photos which clearly shows a SIM slot. Other than that, it…
The mass exodus of executives at Research in Motion continued this week, as two new executives tied to Blackberry have announced their departure. Senior Vice President Alan Brenner, who led the Blackberry platform at RIM, will be out after a transition period. Alistair Mitchell, a Vice President for the Blackberry instant messaging service, has already…
RIM released its highly anticipated BlackBerry Mobile Fusion product on Tuesday. The web software lets network administrators manage BlackBerry handsets, the BlackBerry Playbook, Android phones and the iPhone from a single, unified interface. The software offers: Support for multiple devices per user Application and software management Connectivity management (Wi-Fi®, VPN, certificates) Centralized, easy to use,…
Surprise, surprise … it turns out rich folks do not tweet or play games on their smartphones. Seriously, I mean, how could you if you’re too busy making all that gwop (cash, for the slang challenged), right? Well, according to a new study by the Luxury Institute, our wealthier brethren are less likely to play…
Amidst an abysmal quarterly earnings report, which saw former CEO and Chairman Jim Balsillie tender his resignation from the company, one thing became painfully clear: Blackberry 10 is not going to save RIM. Unless RIM unveils a completely revamped strategy alongside Blackberry 10, RIM’s attempt to get back on top of the smartphone market will…
RIM posted its quarterly earnings and the results are grim as expected. The company announced a loss of $125 million on quarterly revenues of $4.2 billion, which is down 19% from the previous quarter. The company shipped 11.1 million handsets in the quarter, down 23 percent from the previous quarter. It also shipped 500,000 Playbook tablets.…
Later this week, Research in Motion will present its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report to an eager Wall Street crowd. Anyone who knows anything about RIM is anticipating some pretty abysmal results, as market share for RIM’s Blackberry OS continues to decline at the hands of Android and iOS. RIM’s Blackberry 7 phones are fairly dated…
While we’re not going to see BlackBerry 10 smartphones until the Fall, developers attending the BlackBerry World conference will get a sneak peak at what the next generation platform will look like on phones. Research In Motion will be seeding out “prototype” devices to app makers who attend the show. On its developer blog, RIM…