(Reuters) – International Business Machines Corp has considered buying Research In Motion’s enterprise division, Bloomberg reported On Friday, citing two unnamed sources. IBM made an informal approach for the enterprise business that operates the servers used for supporting BlackBerry email and messaging services, one of the sources said, according to Bloomberg. The report said no [...]
A 37-year-old man is in critical condition after being stabbed in the neck with a broken beer bottle at a concert hosted by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in London Tuesday night. The party was being held to celebrate RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger tool, according to the Wall Street Journal blog. The stabbing occurred after a performance by British [...]
TORONTO (Reuters) – A candid diagnosis of the troubles facing Research In Motion delivered by freshman Chief Executive Thorsten Heins was a welcome change for its stakeholders, but his prescription for returning the BlackBerry maker to health might be hard to swallow. RIM recorded its first quarterly loss in seven years on Thursday and said [...]
It’s telling, perhaps, when a VP for your company uses the word “finally” while discussing plans to release test models for your upcoming mobile operating system — but it’s certainly a pretty accurate sentiment when dealing BlackBerry 10. Talking up RIM’s plans to release up to 2,000 prototypes running the OS at the BlackBerry Jam conference [...]
Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry, released an update to its PlayBook tablet computer almost a year later than promised. Here are some developments related to its struggles to compete with Apple’s iPhone and iPad and phones running Google’s Android system: Sept. 15, 2011: RIM reports a sharp drop in [...]
Despite rather persistent death rumors, Research-In-Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is still alive and kicking. Now, RIM has delivered a software update to the PlayBook that could give it a little extra life. RIM has outed PlayBook OS 2.0, the long-awaited update to its operating system for the PlayBook. PlayBook OS 2.0 comes with some much-requested new features, [...]
TORONTO (Reuters) – Oil field services company Halliburton plans to stop issuing BlackBerry smartphones to employees and switch over to Apple’s iPhone, which it said was better suited to its needs, marking another setback for Research In Motion. RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones have long dominated corporate mobile communications with on-the-hip email and security credentials, but are [...]
RIM just announced two new ways to save big on the BlackBerry PlayBook. First, the company once again slashed the price of the PlayBook. Until February 11, the tablet will be shipping from shopblackberry.com at a discounted rate of $199 for 16GB, $249 for 32GB and $299 for 64GB. But what if you’d rather have it [...]
TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion is on the verge of stripping its co-chief executives of their other shared role as chairman of the board, a Canadian newspaper reported on Tuesday, raising hopes among investors in the struggling BlackBerry maker. Shares of the smartphone company jumped more than 7 percent on a National Post report [...]
On Tuesday, BlackBerry-maker RIM posted a juicy offer that will be available only for a limited time. According to the sale page, all BlackBerry PlayBook models have been slashed to $299 — for any configuration. The discount adds up to a savings of $200 – $400, depending on which model you choose. The sale is set [...]
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