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When Research In Motion named Thorsten Heins as its new CEO, it faced some criticism for how long the move took and that he may not represent the change that is really needed over in Waterloo. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, RIM director Roger Martin is defending the move by saying an…
One of the world’s largest oilfield companies, Halliburton, publicly acknowledged its decision to stop giving workers BlackBerrys and start equipping them with iPhones. This is a gigantic blow to Research in Motion because the BlackBerry has for a very long time been widely considered the best phone for enterprise users. Halliburton obviously disagrees and so…
Today at BlackBerry’s DevCon Europe event, executives from Research in Motion got to the chance to spin the company’s current state. According to Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, the Canadian phone maker is grabbing six million daily downloads from the BB App World, totalling 174m per month, for an overall tally of over two billion. This…
While new Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has to fix a lot of things with the company’s BlackBerry smartphones, I think it’s safe to say that durability isn’t going to be at the top of the list. Besides the old trackball nightmares, BlackBerry handsets are known to be pretty durable and that’s not an…
Research In Motion has pushed out a few new “Be Bold” video ads and these are fine but it’s going to take a lot more for its new CEO to help turn the ship around. We believe that RIM’s turnaround will rely on it bringing out high-quality hardware, as well as software that’s comparable to…
Big ups to our pals at CrackBerry, as they unearthed what looks to be an official image of the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone: Say hello to the London. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the London but this image does look more complete than the prototype models which appeared late last year. Blake says…
While Microsoft and Research In Motion are competing for the hearts and minds of smartphone users, that won’t stop the two companies from teaming up to help business users get their software on the go. RIM introduced the BlackBerry Cloud Service for its handsets and this will enable BlackBerry users to access Microsoft Office 365.…
Surprise, surprise … BlackBerry owners are older and wealthier, according to the latest study conducted by comScore. The study shows that BlackBerry smartphones are occupied of age groups ranging from 35 and above, while folks who are 55 to 64 years of age have the highest ownership index. Owners of BB devices are wealthier, as the…
Research In Motion has a new CEO but you can be pretty sure that its 2012 roadmap will remain the same unless something dramatic happens. Well, the spies over at BGR have got their hands on what the BlackBerry maker will reportedly release over the next 15 months and I’d be lying if I said…
Well, the stock market doesn’t seem to be impressed with Research In Motion’s leadership change, as RIM’s stock ($RIMM) fell 8.59% to close at $15.56 today. This was the first business day since the news came out that former COO Thorston Heins would be replacing former co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. Balsillie and Lazaridis…