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RIM CEOs Balsillie and Lazaridis step down
When Apple first announced the iPhone back in 2007, the folks over at RIM were incredulous. It was utterly impossible, they reasoned, that Apple would be able to create a device with a large 3.5-inch touchscreen and achieve decent battery life as well. Indeed, by the time RIM realized that the iPhone threat was real, [...]
Continue reading...Amazon considered making a bid for RIM
Friday, December 30, 2011
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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...RIM to release enterprise management tools for iOS and Android
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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As the iPhone began to pick up steam after its initial release in 2007, RIM executives remained enamored with the physical keyboards that adorned their smartphones and scoffed at what the iPhone brought to the table. But amid declining marketshare, it soon became readily apparent that RIM needed to adjust their smartphone strategy midstream or [...]
Continue reading...With mobile Flash on the outs, iPad competitors lose key “selling point”
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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By David Goldman: Now that Adobe has officially ended their support for its Flash player across mobile devices, iPhone and iPad competitors have one less selling point at their disposal. To be fair, it’s not as if Flash support prompted millions of users to purchase non-iOS devices in the first place, but that didn’t stop [...]
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...Sprint axes the BlackBerry Playbook amidst disappointing sales
Monday, August 15, 2011
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Things continue to look bleak for the BlackBerry Playbook, RIM’s ‘better late than never’ attempt to enter the tablet space. The Playbook debuted in late April to an unrelenting stream of harsh reviews. No GPS app, no built in-email, no apps, no cellular connection, and poor battery life were just a few of the many [...]
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...RIM moves 250,000 BlackBerry Playbooks in first month of availability
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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Despite atrociousreviews, sales of RIM’s PlayBook tablet don’t appear to be doing too badly. RBC analyst Mike Abramsky wrote in a note to investors that channel checks suggest RIM has already sold approximately 250,000 units since the tablet first launched on April 19th. it’s hard to discern just how accurate Abramsky’s estimate is, but if [...]
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...RIM CEOs respond to harsh critiques of the RIM PlayBook
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Initial reviews of RIM’s BlackBerry Playbook were less than stellar. Without going into every piece of criticisim levied against it by a slew of reviewers, the following blurb from David Pogue appropriately sums things up: Remember, the primary competition is an iPad — the same price, but much thinner, much bigger screen and a library [...]
Continue reading...With lack of apps, basic functionality, and average battery life, RIM Playbook is not an iPad challenger
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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RIM PlayBook reviews began trickling out today and suffice it to say, it’s no iPad killer. Though carrying an iPad-esque pricetag of $499, the PlayBook sports a smaller 7-inch screen and by all accounts comes with promising, albeit seemingly unpolished software. Here’s what NYT Tech Columnsist David Pogue had to say about RIM’s foray into [...]
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...Apple’s acquisition of worldwide touchscreen supply delayed RIM’s PlayBook for a month
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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On April 19th, RIM will finally release its PlayBook tablet after months of hype and hyperbolic statements from company executives. Priced at $499 to compete with the iPad, the PlayBook will sport a 7-inch screen and will feature a UI based on QNX software. Notably, the PlayBook will run Android apps from within an emulator, which [...]
Continue reading...So RIM’s PlayBook will support Android Apps.. Um, okay.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
So in an effort to quickly establish a large library of apps on launch, RIM recently announced that its upcoming PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android apps via en emulator. BusinessInsider reports: When asked why anyone would ever bother developing for RIM’s own platform again if they could just make Android apps that [...]
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Monday, January 23, 2012
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