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RIM’s Blackberry 10 gets new leaked photos

Mark Raby, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

New pictures of what is reported to be Research in Motion's next-generationg Blackberry operating system have surfaced, and they show a platform that looks like a mix of Windows Phone's large home-screen widgets and Android's app selection menu. In other words, it's a Blackberry OS that actually belongs in the 21st century, but the question is whether or not it's too little too late. Read The Full Story

RIM feared “morons from outside” in CEO hunt says director

Chris Davies, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM's choice for its new CEO was either look internally to save the BlackBerry business or "hand it over to children, or morons from the outside who will destroy the company" according to one outspoken board member. Roger Martin, who has been on the RIM board for around five years, dismisses suggestions that the company should have junked co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis several years back, telling The Globe and Mail that the best strategy was that RIM "try to build our way to having succession." Read The Full Story

StatCounter says 8.5% of Internet usage comes from mobile

Mark Raby, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

A new study from research group StatCounter has found that 8.5% of the world's Internet usage comes from a mobile device. And when StatCounter says "mobile" device, they're talking about the purest form - cell phones only. Tablets were not included in the data. So the question is - is this a big number or should it be bigger? The answer is pretty obvious when you look at how the stats have changed over the last couple years. Read The Full Story

Blackberry getting dumped by Haliburton for iPhone

Rue Liu, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM may be facing another blow in the enterprise arena that it once dominated. According to a leaked memo obtained by AppleInsider, Haliburton, the world's largest energy service company, is reportedly planning to transition its employees away from BlackBerry devices to iPhones. The transition is expected to roll out in phases over the next two years. Read The Full Story

RIM to abandon multi-platform BBM and BB10 licensing says analyst

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM is likely to abandon any ambitions of licensing BlackBerry 10 to rivals and ditch the possibility of a BlackBerry Messenger client for iOS and Android, it's suggested, as the company attempts to leverage its "integrated solution" instead. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek says his company's checks found RIM "will delay and possibly abandon its OS licensing plans," Forbes reports, and that despite having met - and liked - new CEO Thorsten Heins, he believes his near-term strategy is significantly flawed. Read The Full Story

PlayBook free per Android App says desperate RIM

Chris Burns, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM's VP of developer relations Alec Saunders has offered up free PlayBook tablets to Android developers today in exchange for their apps. All they've got to do is make sure they're signed up and have submitted their Android app to BlackBerry's BB AppWorld by the 13th of February. If your humble narrator didn't know any better, it would seem that RIM is desperate not only to get rid of their remaining stock of the PlayBook BlackBerry tablet, but to get Android users interested in working with them, no matter the cost. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry 10 Smartphone press photos leaked

Chris Burns, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

The next RIM vision of a BlackBerry smartphone, or Superphone as they’re calling it at the source for this leak, is a fully touch-sensitive candybar-style device. This device comes from CrackBerry and appears to either be code-named London or will be released in London sometime soon. This image also shows off how the device will be thin, will have a single flash and camera on the back, another camera on the front with a sensor or two, and one gigantic display on the front as well.

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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 launch next month, Android apps due February 6

Rue Liu, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

The long overdue BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 update may finally be arriving in February, if RIM follows through on its latest promise. According to a post today by RIM's Developer Relations team, the update will be available next month, packing the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps feature that allows Android apps to run on the PlayBook tablet. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry “Bold Team” cartoon caper falls flat

Chris Davies, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM has found itself the butt of BlackBerry jokes, after a superhero infographic promotion was mistaken for a new advertising campaign. "The Bold Team" was presented as how RIM would "be bold in 2012", a quartet of personalities - "achiever", "adventurer" "advocate" and "authentic" - each representing an aspect of how the company hoped its BlackBerry handsets would be perceived. Unfortunately, the actual perception was one of bemusement. Read The Full Story

RIM concedes no more combining BlackBerry CEO and Chair

Chris Davies, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM's Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie will be the last to share both the CEO and Board Chair position, after an independent review decided never again would the two roles be conflated by BlackBerry management. In fact, the committee of independent directors deemed [pdf link], the RIM Chair should from now on always be a non-BlackBerry employee. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry squeezed out of Enterprise say stats

Chris Davies, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

RIM's new CEO faces a dual-challenge, Apple in North America and the ascendence of Samsung in Europe, according new research, though BlackBerry is a surprise hold-out in the UK. "Android and Apple together are eating BlackBerry's lunch" Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett said of the smartphone pincer-movement, the NYTimes reports, with global stats indicating 27-percent of smartphone users have an Android device and 24-percent an iPhone. BlackBerry slots in-between, at 26-percent, but enterprise users are progressively looking elsewhere from previous business darlings RIM. Read The Full Story