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RIM showed off Blackberry 10 yesterday to a press hungry for the day the company becomes relevant again. The platform won’t release to the public until 2013, though the software is nearly completion as RIM prepares for carrier testing. There was a lot to like about Blackberry 10 from CEO Thorsten Heins’ keynote, from the…
Back in June, RIM made the unpopular announcement that the company’s BlackBerry 10 OS would miss the holiday season, instead launching in early 2013. Amid growing economic uncertainty at RIM, many were doubtful of even an early 2013 release, but CEO Thorsten Heins took the stage at BlackBerry Jam today, where he confirmed that BlackBerry 10…
Guess what RIM has been up to today! Actually wait, before you take your guess, let’s just poke a little fun at the answer. What should a company do when one of its biggest competitors launches a new product after receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and two million pre-orders in 24 hours for said…
Well, what do you know, there is peace in the patent world after all. Microsoft and Research In Motion today signed a patent licensing agreement that gives the BlackBerry maker access to Microsoft’s file system technology. What is this stuff RIM is licensing, you ask? That technology is called Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT), and…
RIM enthusiastically boasted toward the end of August that carriers love BlackBerry 10 so far, at least based on the progress RIM has made with the upcoming mobile OS. While the carriers’ opinions are presumably still positive, it looks like they’re being careful not to rely too heavily on it. Between the abundance of perfectly…
Verizon confirmed in an interview with CNET that the company plans to carry BlackBerry 10 devices when the service launches in Q1 2013. RIM has been making the rounds to carriers showing off both it’s touch-only and QWERTY hardware keyboard BlackBerry 10 devices, and Verizon apparently is interested in both models. The companies will announce more…
The clock is ticking on Research In Motion, as the company plans on releasing a fresh batch of devices in the start of 2013. Rumors have been leaking for weeks about RIM’s new BlackBerry 10 handsets carrying a Qualcomm S4 Pro processor. Now new images have surfaced of BlackBerry’s L-Series, better known as London. In…
RIM has some bragging rights it’s taking full advantage of, which is a good idea since RIM rarely gets to brag about anything these days. Though BlackBerry 10 isn’t quite ready for consumer use yet, the company has been showing off the new OS to carriers and apparently, they really like it. A few top…
RIM is hard at work trying to get out its BlackBerry 10 devices, as it will determine whether the company in the future sinks or swims. At this point, not much is known about the Canadian manufacturers new phones, but we do know a couple of things. Reports have pinned next generation BlackBerry devices to…
RIM is ceasing development on BlackBerry Enterprise Servers for all current devices according to BGR. Apparently, the company has grown tired of trying to make QNX work on its older NOC system that currently runs on all its java-based devices out today. The site heard of this move through a trusted source, which added RIM’s…