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Cisco Cius tablet is dead

Mark Raby, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Cisco's attempt at entering the massively competitive tablet market has come to a quiet end. The company's Cius product has been set off to greener pastures without even making a serious dent in the industry. It was meant to be the leader in enterprise-focused tablets. But as you may already know, the iPad has kind of taken that title, and it took it before the Cius even had a chance to shine. It's the same reason the Blackberry Playbook never got a chance to spread its wings. Read The Full Story

Cross-platform BBM reportedly scrapped

Ben Kersey, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Rumors in the past have suggested that RIM may port its popular BlackBerry Messenger application to iOS and Android. The Waterloo based smartphone company has been struggling in the market thanks to the meteoric rise of both of those platforms, and the release of a cross-platform BBM could have opened some new revenue streams. The Wall Street Journal reports that any plans RIM had to port BBM have now been scrapped. Read The Full Story

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Do You Trust RIM?

Avi Greengart, May 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM is in a heap of trouble, but you wouldn’t know it from the attendance at BlackBerry World in Orlando earlier this month, where literally thousands of people packed a giant conference room to hear CEO Thorsten Heins’ keynote address, meet with RIM account teams, and attend developer events. These weren’t just holdouts from RIM’s government or enterprise base, either; RIM allowed BlackBerry World alumnae to skip some lines, and the “SpeedPass” lines were 20x shorter than the regular ones. RIM has been growing rapidly some global markets, and many of the attendees appeared to hail from these locales, where the BlackBerry brand – and BBM in particular – are hallmarks of upwardly mobile youth.

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NEXGEN Skins dimensional gadget coverings hands-on

Chris Burns, May 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week we’ve gotten the opportunity to take a peek at a brand new set of gadget coverings made by a company that’s literally just begun to exist this week: NEXGEN Skins. This company creates skins that stick to your devices and offer up a solution that’s “unique to the market” the world over – in both thickness and dimensionality. These skins come in all shapes in sizes, starting here at the launch with 50 different devices with plans for 20 more devices per month through the future. Never before have we seen skins so incredibly thick and engaging – without a doubt.

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RIM makes BlackBerry Curve 9320 official

Ben Kersey, May 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

It might not be quite as anticipated as the Galaxy S III, but BlackBerry users need a little love too. RIM has officially announced the latest entry into the QWERTY rocking series, the BlackBerry Curve 9320. Specs won’t blow you away, but for an entry-level device it should be serviceable: a 2.4-inch 320x240 screen, 806Mhz processor, 3.2 megapixel camera, BlackBerry OS 7.1, and a 1,450mAh battery. Read The Full Story

RIM announces new COO and CMO

Ben Kersey, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM has today announced its new COO and CMO. The new chief operating officer will be Kristian Tear, and Frank Boulben will serve as the new chief marketing officer. Tear previously worked for Sony, where he held several positions, the most notable being the Executive Vice President of Sony Mobile. Boulben meanwhile comes from Lightsquared, where he was the Executive Vice President of Stategy, Marketing, and Sales for LightSquared. Read The Full Story

RIM partners with TomTom for HD Traffic

Ben Kersey, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM was at BlackBerry World last week trying to impress the world with the upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS, and its not sitting still even coming off of that event. TomTom has announced a partnership with RIM that will see the Canadian company making use of the HD maps in BlackBerry Traffic, giving users access to accurate maps and precise traffic information. Read The Full Story

Nielsen confirms majority of US consumers have smartphones

Mark Raby, May 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you're one of those people who won't believe a statistic until it comes from a $5 billion-a-year media company, then you can now believe that owning a smartphone in the US is now something that spans a majority of the country. Nielsen is reporting what a few other analyst firms had already suggested - that smartphone ownership in this country has eclipsed the magic 50% mark. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry 10 leak details screen-sharing, video apps and more

Chris Davies, May 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM cherry-picked elements of BlackBerry 10 to demonstrate last week, but further details of the upcoming smartphone and tablet OS have leaked courtesy of the CrackBerry forums. Supposedly snatched from an internal RIM document outlining some of BlackBerry 10's features to staff, the images show the platform's new lockscreen, social networking integration, video editor and more. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry maker RIM’s stock hits 8 year low

Michael Crider, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

On a day when all eyes in the mobile space are turned towards Samsung, Research in Motion has got to be feeling pretty low - and not just for the lack of attention. The Canadian BlackBerry manufacturer's stock slid to just $11.91 today, losing over 15% of their value in the last three days alone. To add insult to injury, this financial blow comes just two days after RIM's BlackBerry World 2012 conference, where ir introduced a new hardware and software platform. Read The Full Story

BlackBerrys account for 80% of NFC phones in UK

Rue Liu, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Despite facing a continued decline, RIM remains optimistic with its recent BlackBerry 10 debut and even points out that its handsets have an edge over others when it comes to mobile payments. According to the Canadian phone maker, BlackBerry devices account for 80 percent of NFC phones in the UK. What sort of lead RIM might have in the US, however, was not discussed. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry CEO says LTE PlayBook is coming

Shane McGlaun, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins made it clear at BlackBerry World that the LTE PlayBook tablet is coming later this year. This announcement is no surprise, yet it is confirmation of what we knew was coming. A BlackBerry PlayBook rocking 4G connectivity has been spied at FCC in the past hinting it was close to coming to market. Read The Full Story