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Research In Motion dropped the bomb Sunday night (conveniently during a very popular football game) that co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis would be stepping down from their leadership positions at the top of the company and as chairmen of the board. Thorsten Heins will be taking over as CEO of RIM but there are…
Everyone knows who Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are. Lazaridis founded Research in Motion back in 1984 and Balsillie joined in 1992. Together, the pair have led RIM since the early 90s. But who is Thorsten Heins, the new President and CEO of the Canadian company? Where did he come from and how is he going…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that RIM’s Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis will step down from their leadership positions at RIM. The pair will turn over the reigns of the Canadian company to Thorsten Heins, who is the current COO. This transition is expected to occur on Monday. Speaking with The Globe and Mail, Lazaridis said…
If you’re looking for an affordable, entry-level BlackBerry on Verizon, you’re in luck, as the Curve 9370 is now available on Verizon Wireless for about $100 on a new, two-year contract and a rebate. This was introduced at CES 2012 and it didn’t really draw that much attention due to the slate of other high-profile…
There’s no secret that Research In Motion’s future has been cloudy for awhile now, but underneath the fog is a company who’s quietly been equipping many of its devices with NFC capability. Although a chip resides in some of it devices, a mobile wallet application has yet to appear on the BlackBerry OS until now.…
Okay, so maybe 2011 wasn’t a good year for the BlackBerry PlayBook but RIM isn’t giving up on the tablet market yet. N4BB claims its hearing from voices on the inside that RIM is preparing to launch not one, but two PlayBook-branded tablets this year. One will be a lower-end 7-inch model and the other will…
The rumor mill is chugging along in the new year and Research In Motion’s stock has jumped on the news that Samsung may be interested in buying the BlackBerry maker, according to a report from Bloomberg. I’m not really sure how real or strong the interest from Samsung is but a move would help it…
It’s one thing to have some of your customers want to switch to a different brand. It’s another thing to have three-quarters of your customers unsatisfied and planning to make the switch. What company could possibly have 75% of its mobile phone users plotting to abandon it? You guessed it: RIM. According to data from Drippler,…
This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, it looks like RIM is all about software. That proves true in this case, with RIM introducing BlackBerry OS 7.1. It’s considered a minor update overall, but it does bring some nice enhancements to the operating system. Similar to apps like Bump on iOS and Android, BlackBerry Tag…
Well, it’s not much of a surprise but RIM announced that it will be previewing the next major iteration of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS, version 2.0, at CES 2012 this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. With it comes a host of new improvements and features — one of them being native e-mail! Who ever thought…