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Yep, some parachutes are still made of gold. Research in Motion announced last week that it gave exiting co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis were given a combined $12 million in exit payments after they stepped down from the role earlier this year. Of the $12 million, Balsillie took home $8 million while Lazaridis netted…
While it certainly comes as no surprise that Apple sells more iPads than any other tablet maker combined, a new report out of Chitika suggests that Apple’s iPad commands an even greater market share when it comes to internet browsing. Chitika serves ads to several sites around the web, and selected a sample of the…
BlackBerry users may soon have access to many more applications. A developer under the moniker businesscat2000 made a forum post on CrackBerry entitled iOS Apps running on BlackBerry. The post linked to a series of YouTube videos that showed iOS applications running in a sort of emulator on the BlackBerry PlayBook, which the developer likened to running…
After a few false starts, the tablet computer market is fully taking off. The surge is led by Apple’s iPad tablet, which debuted in 2010 and single-handedly comprises a significant majority of the tablets found in consumer households today. While we know tablets are a hot-commodity item, a new report out of comScore indicates just…
A new survey from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) paints a potentially troubling picture for Android. CIRP looked at new iPhone sales for the month of April, and found that a whopping 38% of new iPhones sold in the month were to people who already owned a smartphone. Nearly 1 in every 4 iPhones…
RIM is officially killing of the 16GB PlayBook, according to an N4BB report. Engadget suggests that low margins on the 16GB tablet are to blame for RIM’s choice to discontinue the tablet, though sluggish sales of any tablet that doesn’t have the Apple logo on it probably played a role as well. RIM and its distributors and retailers…
Game of Thrones season 2 finished with a bang, as expected, this past Sunday. If you haven’t seen the show, you’re missing out but we decided to liken some of the houses to some of the most popular mobile operating systems around today. It’s all in fun (obviously), so feel free to drop in your…
RIM is betting its entire future on BlackBerry 10, a product many in the industry frankly aren’t that excited about. The former king of smartphones is struggling immensely of late, with over $1 billion in unsold inventory sitting in its warehouses, at least 2 more quarters of abysmal returns, and market share dipping below the 10% mark.…
RIM was in a bit of trouble for its use of the BBM moniker for its BlackBerry Messenger service. The BBM name is trademarked by a Canadian company, BBM Canada, that measures television and radio audiences, and the company obviously wasn’t too keen on RIM freely using the BBM name as its own. BBM Canada filed…
Toronto-based Juice Mobile released some Canadian mobile stats based on their publisher ad impression levels. From the infographic we got, you can see that RIM is dominating the picture, accounting for 45% of all the traffic. Apple’s iOS took the second place with 34% of users (3% less than last month) and finally Android is…