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While RIM Ceo Thorston Heins continues to talk rosily about RIM’s future, the dire state of the company is becoming all too real for employees in its Ottawa headquarters. According to a report in the Ottawa Citizen, RIM is curtailing summer vacations and telling workers they must work six days a week. This big push…
Okay, I’m convinced. RIM leadership is delusional. CEO Thorsten Heins gave an interview to CBC’s Metro Morning program, where the leader of the struggling smartphone maker made some puzzling remarks about the state of the company. “There’s nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now… I’m not talking about the company as I,…
AT&T apparently asked Research In Motion in 2010 to kindly build a competitor to the iPhone, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The dirty deed took place while Apple’s iPhone was still exclusively available on AT&T in the United States. “We work with all device makers to bring the best products to market…
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The analysts have spoken, and most believe it would take nothing short of a Jobs-ian miracle to save ailing Research in Motion. As a refresher, the company announced a $518 million loss yesterday, and delayed its savior BlackBerry 10 platform to early 2013. Its stock fell nearly 15% at…
It’s the beginning of the end for RIM. The company has announced its fiscal Q1 2013 earnings report, and it has amassed revenue of $2.8 billion, down 33% from fiscal Q1 2012. The decline in revenue led to a net loss of $518 million, and as a result of poor growth, RIM plans to cut another 5,000…
A day that when we get to speak positively about RIM is a commodity. Well, today some leaked photos of how BlackBerry Messenger may appear on the company’s new operating system BlackBerry 10 have surfaced. The Canadian handset maker is working hard on the proper usage of OLED screens in the company’s future lineup of…
Analysts at Morgan Stanley are painting a grim picture for Research in Motion, sending share prices of the ailing smartphone maker down to around $9.00 per share. The analysts suggest that RIM faces some tough choices ahead if it is to emerge once more as a competitor in the smartphone market. “We believe the only…
It’s been suggested before, but RIM has officially confirmed today that the first BlackBerry 10 device released to market will not feature RIM’s customary hardware keyboard. Instead, RIM’s first BlackBerry 10 devices will focus on the impressive software keyboard RIM has developed for their upcoming platform. RIM is not abandoning hardware keyboards altogether, but company…
We all knew it was coming, it was only a matter of when. In an effort to right the sinking ship that is Research In Motion, the company has begun handing out pink slips to the 2,000 employees affected by the current round of layoffs. RIM is shrinking its workforce from 16,500 to 14,500, down from 20,000…
Today is not a good day for Alnoor Ebrahim. He’s a 57-year-old U.S. citizen born in Tanzania who used to work for AT&T and has just been sentenced to up to two years in prison for illegally sharing secrets regarding Apple and RIM’s sales numbers. In a Manhattan court room, Ebrahim pleaded guilty to selling insider…