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Facing a dire financial situation, Research in Motion (RIM) is weighing all its options. Not content with building out their restructuring plan from within, RIM has hired the services of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP to work on a plan that could include selling off assets, joint ventures, or licensing existing RIM patents and services.…
We all need to check some information with Wikipedia from time to time. Instead of visiting the website whenever that’s needed, some of us (I know I do) fire-up the dedicated Wikipedia app to get the information faster without loading any side graphics. Up until this point, such an app wasn’t available for BlackBerry PlayBook…
RIM unveiled a new BlackBerry device in India – Curve 9220, which will also find its way to the other markets in the coming weeks. Specs wise, the new BlackBerry sports a 2.44-inch QVGA screen, 2-megapixel camera, EDGE data, Wi-Fi, 512MB of RAM, microSD card slot, and a 1,450 mAh battery that is good to…
Samsung is trying really hard to go beyond hardware manufacturing. The Korean giant already has its Android UI (TouchWIZ), app store (Samsung Apps), mobile platform (Bada), as well as a number of app/content Hubs like the Gaming Hub, Social Hub and Learning Hub. Like that’s not enough, they also have their own group messaging client…
RIM is finally coming to terms with the reality that BlackBerry is losing ground to iOS and Android. To turn itself around, RIM recently cleaned out its executive leadership and is now looking to hire a financial adviser to help it weigh strategic options going forward, says a Bloomberg report. Hiring a bank to help…
Visual voicemail app YouMail announced on its blog plans to drop support for BlackBerry and thereby end development for the platform at least until it starts showing signs of life again, but let’s be honest, the chances of that happening are slim. It’s a sad day for the folks at YouMail. The BlackBerry is what…
Whether you love BlackBerry or hate it, there’s no escaping the fact that consumer demand for RIM’s devices has dramatically decreased over the past few years. Even worse, it doesn’t seem like RIM has even the slightest clue as to how to fix the mess. However Jim Balsillie, the company’s former co-CEO who stepped down…
BlackBerry has announced a handful of applications that will become BBM connected over the next few weeks. Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry Travel, BlackBerry App World, and BlackBerry Music will all see apps updated in the next 10 days that will allow users to interact with BBM friends within these applications. You’ll be able to do things…
Are smaller carriers on the rise? One analyst seems to think so. Iain Gillott is the president and founder of iGR, a mobile industry consultancy group, and a study from his firm suggests that smaller carriers will make key gains in the mobile industry over the next few years. Regional carriers such as U.S. Cellular,…
BlackBerry PlayBook owners will soon lose the ability to sideload applications onto their tablets. RIM will be pushing an update to all existing PlayBooks that will remove this option to prevent application piracy. RIM’s VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders broke the news via Twitter, stating that the move is geared at curbing application piracy,…