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RIM to release competitive touchscreen BlackBerry next week?
Reuters reports: Shares of Research In Motion jumped on Wednesday on speculation that next week it would unveil a new touchscreen BlackBerry that could compete more effectively with Apple Inc’s iPhone and other smartphones. RIM is expected to announce the launch of the BlackBerry 9800 at a joint event with AT&T Inc in New York next Tuesday. [...]
Continue reading...RIM releases sneak peak of Blackberry 6 OS
Monday, July 12, 2010
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RIM writes on its official blog that Blackberry 6 is on track to launch later this Summer. Until then, peep the tweaked and much improved UI users can expect to see sometime soon. It’s no iOS 4, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
Continue reading...RIM sells 100 millionth BlackBerry as quarterly profits increase 43%
Friday, June 25, 2010
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Back in the late 80’s, the 30/30 club in Baseball (30 homers + 30 steals) was considered an incredible feat, and players who were able to pull it off were often considered the cream of the crop. In tech, the 100 million club seems to the modern day equivalent to what was once a heralded [...]
Continue reading...Volume of app downloads on iTunes over 10x greater than on BlackBerry App World
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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RIM CEO Jim Balsillie revealed today that RIM’s BlackBerry App World has about 20 million registered users who download approximately 1 million apps daily. Apple’s iTunes App Store, in contrast, sees anywhere from 10 to 20 million app downloads every single day. Compounding things for RIM is that BlackBerry App World only has 5,000 or so [...]
Continue reading...RIM CEO Mihalis Lazaridis downplays success of touchscreen smartphones
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Mihalis (Mike) Lazaridis, co-CEO and co-Founder of RIM, recently downplayed the success of touchscreen phones like the iPhone while touting his own company’s lineup of qwerty-based devices.
Continue reading...40% of BlackBerry users would prefer an iPhone as their next smartphone
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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We know that BlackBerry devices kick ass when it comes to e-mail, but let’s be honest here, email will only get you so far. RIM’s marketshare is certainly nothing to laugh about, but the real question is if they’re doing anything to ensure that current BlackBerry users don’t bolt for the greener pastures of Apple [...]
Continue reading...Developing for the iPhone v. developing for BlackBerry
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Toktumi has an interesting article up discussing the disadvantage RIM is faced with as it attempts to position its app world to compete with Apple’s wildly successful iTunes app store. “Having recently developed versions of our popular Line2 app for both the iPhone and Blackberry platforms, I can tell you one major reason for RIM’s difficulties: [...]
Continue reading...Report: BlackBerry’s App World is the most expensive app store
Monday, October 12, 2009
In a recent report encapsulating data from September, app store analytics company Distimo found that BlackBerry’s App World holds the distinction of being the most expensive mobile app store. The report found that the average price for an app on BlackBerry’s App World is more than three times higher than apps found on Apple’s iTunes [...]
Continue reading...Report: BlackBerry Tour experiencing 50% return rate
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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According to analyst Gerard Hallaren of TownHall Investment Research, RIM’s flagship new device, the BlackBerry Tour, is experiencing returns bordering on 50% due to trackball problems. Specifically, Hallaren notes that dirt and gunk tend to get stuck underneath the devices trackball, prompting users to clean the track ball a lot more often than they’d like [...]
Continue reading...The iPhone and letting apps run in the background
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Kicking it ADB, a great blog who we wish would publish more often, directs us to the fact that the third most popular app on Blackberry’s App World is an app called “Aerize Optimizer - Memory booster - cleaner utility”. As you might have guessed, the app helps eliminate memory leaks, improve sluggish performance, and [...]
Continue reading...RIM to release Mac desktop client for Blackberry devices
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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In what should come as welcome news for all Mac users currently using BlackBerry devices, RIM announced today that they were finally coming out with a desktop app for the Mac that will allow users to mange the content of their BlackBerrys with ease. According to The Official BlackBerry Blog, the app will be available in [...]
Continue reading...RIM doubles number of available apps to 2,000, and why Apple shouldn’t be worried
Monday, July 6, 2009
RIM has doubled the number of applications on App World with the library of available titles now coming in at 2,000. At the same time, access to RIM’s App World will soon be expanding to include users from Italy, France, Germany and Spain. In the coming months, access will also extend to include users in [...]
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
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