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RIM looking to get into mobile advertising - Report
The WSJ reports: In recent months, the Canadian device maker has held talks with Baltimore-based mobile ad network Millennial Media about a potential acquisition, these people said. But the talks have stalled over disagreements regarding the value of Millennial, which serves advertisements on its own network of mobile websites. It also brokers ad sales to a [...]
Continue reading...Disappointing BlackBerry Torch sales forces RIM to cut selling price by 50%
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
About two weeks ago, RIM unveiled the BlackBerry Torch, a touchscreen smartphone with a slide out keyboard. After the miserable failures that were the Storm 1 and 2, RIM was hoping to position the Torch as a bona fide smartphone capable of competing with the iPhone and a slew of Android devices. Early reviews of [...]
Continue reading...RIM unveils BlackBerry Torch with slideout keyboard and outdated screen
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
RIM today unwrapped its latest effort to stay abreast in the increasingly competitive smartphone market. Dubbed the BlackBerry Torch, the latest device from RIM features a multitouch screen along with a slide out QWERTY keyboard and a 4MP camera with flash and autofocus. BGR was able to get its hands on the device earlier today, and [...]
Continue reading...RIM purchases “BlackPad” domain name
Friday, July 30, 2010
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Whenever Apple releases an absurdly popular new device, it doesn’t take long before competitors hit the drawing board and come back with new fangled devices looking to capitalize on the path blazed by Apple. Over the past few months, rumors of RIM releasing a homegrown competitor to the iPad have grown increasingly louder. RIM’s tablet effort, [...]
Continue reading...RIM not happy about being dragged into iPhone 4 antenna debate
Saturday, July 17, 2010
As part of Apple’s ongoing efforts to stem the tide of criticism directed at the iPhone 4 antenna, Apple yesterday posted a number of videos showing how signal attenuation is a problem that not only affects the iPhone, but a number of other smartphones as well. One of the phones demoed was a Blackberry device, [...]
Continue reading...Apple was interested in acquiring Palm before HP sealed the deal
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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Dan Frommer of Business Insider sheds some light on some of the other tech companies who considered making a play for Palm, who were ultimately acquired by HP for a cool $1.2 billion. Notably, and quite surprisingly, Apple was strongly considering a Palm buyout before the HP deal eventually went down. Citing a source familiar with the negotiations, [...]
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...Domestic Android sales surpass iPhone sales for first time during 1Q of 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
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For the first time, sales of Android based devices here in the US were greater than iPhone sales during a given quarter. According to data released earlier today by the NPD group, Android sales during the 1Q of 2010 represented 28% of all smartphone sales while iPhone sales represented 21%. Leading the pack, as usual, [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: RIM working on a Blackberry Tablet
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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With over 1 million units sold in 28 days, the iPad is a runaway hit. Positioned as an intermediary device between a smartphone and a laptop, the iPad may very well change, in a fundamental way, how we use technology. But more importantly, the masses have spoken, and consumers are more than willing to pay $500+ [...]
Continue reading...Apple now largest US maker of phones
Friday, April 30, 2010
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Apple recently surpassed Motorola to become the largest US maker of phones. Motorola yesterday released its earnings for the 1Q of 2010 and reported a total of 8.5 million in phone sales. Apple meanwhile sold 8.8 million phones during the same quarter. The fall of Motorola just goes to show how quickly things move in tech, [...]
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.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
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