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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…
While it may not be the most exciting announcement of CES 2012 or even the most exciting announcement from Verizon Wireless, Big Red said it would be carrying the BlackBerry Curve 9370. The handset is Verizon’s version of the 9360 and we liked it for what it is: an entry-level BlackBerry for those who love…
At the AT&T Developer Summit co-located, the carrier probably made a lot of developers happy by rolling out multiple platform APIs which could lead to more powerful apps which are easier to write across all the platforms. Basically, this gives app makers deeper hooks into the network and its capabilities. The APIs include payments, U-Verse,…
Read: CES 2012 Preview: Nokia, tablets and 4G LTE Follow all our CES coverage here Follow on Twitter for the latest CES news: @IntoMobile, @BlakeStimac, @marinperez It’s that time of year where thousands of tech journalists, products makers and business folk descend upon Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show and the 2012 version should…
It was looking like Research In Motion was going to have a tiny presence at CES 2012 but the company recently sent out an invitation to journalists and this will focus on the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 and BlackBerry 7. The OS 2.0 software is supposed to come in February and it will fix many…
Thought we’d have to wait until late 2012 to see the next version of the BlackBerry software? Well, RIM is expected to unveil BlackBerry OS 10 at Mobile World Congress 2012, according to reports. The demo at MWC 2012 will be its first public reveal and RIM is promising to deliver. The BlackBerry 10 hype has…
We all know that Research In Motion is in some trouble and that it needs to do something bold to get back in the leadership position in the smartphone game. Could that bold move be licensing its BlackBerry software to the likes of HTC and Samsung? That’s what Barron’s is reporting based on an analyst’s…
RIM is preparing to change up its executive structure soon, and this move may cost RIM co-CEOs Jim Basillie and Mike Lazaridis their titles as co-Chairmen of the Board, says one report. RIM’s independent directors are expected to unveil the role change recommendations by the end of January. The news comes after RIM is apparently…