Tag Archive | "blackberry"
Amazon considered making a bid for RIM
Like a bat out of hell, the iPhone came along in 2007 and forever changed the smartphone landscape. Amazingly, some companies are still struggling to recover from Apple’s foray into the smartphone market, with RIM being a prime example. The Canadian based purveyor of BlackBerry devices is in turmoil. Earnings are on the decline because, [...]
Continue reading...Gazelle says BlackBerry trade-ins reach all-time high in wake of iPhone 4S release
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Just a few years ago, Blackberry was synonymous with smartphone. The profits at RIM were plentiful and Blackberry devices were considered the creme de la creme. And then along came the iPhone and completely turned the smartphone market upside down. In one swift stroke, Apple redefined the very notion of what a [...]
Continue reading...Android and iOS usage broken down by state
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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Mobile ad network Jumptap just released data relaying smartphone preferences measured across the entire contiguous United States. According to Jumptap’s data, Google’s Android OS appears to be dominant across western United States with commanding shares in states such as California, Washington, Texas and Florida. iOS, meanwhile, appears to have the market cornered in much of [...]
Continue reading...iOS devices comprise 2/3 of all in-flight WiFi users
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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Accessing the Internet for the first time while flying 30,000 feet up in the air is one of those “holy crap!” moments that make you marvel at the wonder of technology. While some airlines like Virgin America offer passengers free Wi-Fi service, others like Southwest offer it for a small service fee. But no matter [...]
Continue reading...RIM to layoff 2000 employees
Monday, July 25, 2011
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Things continue to look bleak for RIM. The Canadian based handset maker announced today that it plans to slash 2000 jobs to help reduce costs and redouble its efforts to remain relevant in the smartphone market and make a dent in the burgeoning tablet market. Indeed, RIM explained that the job cuts, while regrettable and [...]
Continue reading...Behind the scenes look at RIM’s lack of vision and corporate infighting
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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It’s no secret that RIM is struggling to stay relevant. Whereas the purveyor of Blackberry’s once defined what a smartphone was, the Canadian-based company is now desperately trying to play catchup in a market that has largely passed them by. Just a few weeks ago, BGR posted an anonymous post from a member of RIM’s [...]
Continue reading...Open letter to RIM from anonymous executive highlight’s RIM’s troubles
Friday, July 1, 2011
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Yesterday BGR posted a scathing letter to RIM’s senior management team from an anonymous RIM executive highlighting the companies many inefficiencies and explaining the fundamental problems the company faces in its attempts to stave off ever more threatening competition from the likes of Google and Apple. A few excerpts: We are in the middle of [...]
Continue reading...Still focused on email, RIM is a losing proposition
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Ben Brooks over at The Brooks Review has a short but telling post up highlighting the lack of innovation over at RIM. Sure, their devices have grown by leaps and bounds in terms of functionality, but by and large, their bread and butter is and remains email. And in today’s age of [...]
Continue reading...RIM to make Bing the default for search and maps; will integrate Bing on the OS level
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
By Sarah Petit: Score one for Bing! By all accounts, Google completely dominates search. Hell, Google is largely synonymous with search. Google this, Google that. But Google does have some competition in the form of Microsoft’s Bing, which has seen incremental growth over the past few years. And now comes word via Steve Ballmer at [...]
Continue reading...92% of Clorox employees choose iPhone over all other smartphones
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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While BlackBerrys were once ubiquitous, if not downright necessary in the halls of corporate America, the advent of the iPhone changed the way employees use and interact with their smartphones in a fundamental way. While the BlackBerry may be the consummate email device, employees today want their work phones to offer the same benefits afforded [...]
Continue reading...Mobile marketshare broken down by geographic region [Photo]
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
An interesting graph courtesy of Pingdom breaks down the mobile OS marketshare across geographic regions. While it appears that Nokia’s Symbian OS still reigns supreme in Africa, Asia, and South America. the iPhone seems to have North America, Europe, and Australia on lockdown. Note, though, that this graph doesn’t purport to accurately reflect actual OS marketshare, [...]
Continue reading...RIM acquires TAT in efforts to improve Blackberry UI experience
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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After a number of failed, okay okay – lackluster, attempts to compete with the iPhone (Storm 1&2 anyone?), RIM is finally waking up and realizing that a capable email device is decidedly not enough to compete with the big boys. Sure, RIM still dominates the business market, but the iPhone is slowly but surely creeping [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4 is the most reliable smartphone, just don’t drop it!
Monday, November 15, 2010
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SquareTrade is an independent US provider of warranties who recently compiled data from over 50,000 incidents of smartphone failure reports. As laid out in the chart below, the iPhone 4 has the lowest percentage of reported non-accident related malfunctions, coming in at just 2.1%. The iPhone 3GS lags slightly behind comprising 2.3% of reported malfunctions. [...]
Continue reading...How smartphone owners view each other [Comic]
Friday, November 5, 2010
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Check out this hilarious comic depicting how smartphone users view themselves and how they’re perceived by others. via csectioncomics
Continue reading...RIM to release competitive touchscreen BlackBerry next week?
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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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 [...]
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.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
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