For anyone out there still excited for BlackBerry 10 smartphones, a new product rendering of the so-called "BlackBerry London" is now making the rounds.
Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry phones, is shaking things up with a new CEO, Thorsten Heins. His mission: Stop the company from bleeding market share in the United States and restore the faith of investors. But from what we’ve seen from Heins so far in an introductory video and media call, RIM’s chances of recovery are still slim.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion’s co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, announced they have stepped down as co-CEOs and co-chairmen of the once-iconic company that has struggled to compete in recent years. The RIM founders have been replaced by Thorsten Heins, a chief operating officer who joined RIM four years ago from Siemens AG, RIM said Sunday.
With BlackBerry 10 smartphones delayed until late 2012, the next year is going to be pretty awkward for Research in Motion. For nearly another year, the company will have to peddle phones based on BlackBerry 7, an operating system that’s been scaring customers away in droves.
With the dramatic rise of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices, it’s easy to forget that just a few years ago BlackBerry was the premier smartphone on the market and a veritable status symbol.
Research in Motion can’t catch a break. The maker of BlackBerry phones is giving up on the name “BBX” for its next-generation operating system due to trademark issues, and will call it “BlackBerry 10″ instead.
With U.S. Senators getting involved in the issue about whether or not Americans’ cell activity is being monitored and recorded without their permission, it’s worth asking the most obvious question: How did the offending Carrier IQ software get onto the mobile devices in the first place?
Android, Nokia and Blackberry users, your every key press is being tracked, claims Connecticut systems administrator Trevor Eckhart.
A new report reveals that Research in Motion lost 1.8 million BlackBerry subscribers in the third quarter of the year, marking a 10% drop in subscriber numbers despite the release of the new BlackBerry 7 towards the end of that period.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is forging ahead with its BBM Music offering, an attempt at creating a viral music service that will probably fall flat.
I don’t mean to be painfully Pollyannaish, but I’m almost glad that RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis didn’t announce any new products or other major news at the keynote during its DevCon conference in San Francisco, which I attended on Tuesday morning. A year ago, at the 2010 edition of the event, he unveiled the PlayBook [...]
