Research in Motion co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie held a phone-in press conference this morning to announce that BlackBerry services have been "fully restored" around the world.
"On Monday we had a hardware failure," began Lazaridis, who went on to explain that one of the company’s data switches failed in Europe, at which
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FOLLOW-UP: RIM: BlackBerry Service ‘Has Been Fully Restored’
"Since launching BlackBerry in 1999, it’s been my goal to provide reliable, real-time communications around the world," begins RIM founder an Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis’ apology video, "We did not deliver on that goal this week."
"Not even close."
Lazaridis goes on to say that
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BlackBerry service interruptions have been making their way across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and parts of South America over the past couple of days, with reports now surfacing that customers in the U.S. and Canada are experiencing problems as well.
Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry devices, took to the …
BlackBerry PlayBook price, come on down, you’re the next—or actually, first—contestant on The Price Wasn’t Right, But We’ll Fix That, in view of the Android-based Kindle Fire, which Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Wednesday for just $199.
RIM’s PlayBook had been going for between $299 and $499, depending on model, but retailer Best …
Feeling pretty right-on about your Android phone these days? So do plenty of your fellow Americans, it sounds like, according to another one of Nielsen’s monthly surveys.
This one, conducted in August, found that 43% of all U.S. smartphone owners have an Android device. Not bad, but change up the question and timeframe, and you find …
So much for RIM’s brief PlayBook sales “surge” to “4.9% of the tablet market”: The company’s losing market share “much faster than expected to rivals Apple and Google,” reports Reuters this morning.
RIM took another bath in red ink yesterday, when it revealed its quarterly profits had plummeted, sending the company’s shares tumbling …
It looks like both Apple’s iPad 2 and RIM’s PlayBook took a fairly big bite out of Android OS’s tablet market share in the second quarter of 2011. Market intelligence firm International Data Corporation reports that iPad 2 market share rose in Q2 2011, while Android’s collective tablet market share fell precipitously.
RIM’s PlayBook …
Make no mistake about it: The Bold 9900 is the best BlackBerry smartphone to date. But even with a handsome redesign highlighted by a new capacitive touchscreen (plus all the familiar features that make a BlackBerry a Blackberry) will it be enough to close the gap between Apple or Android? Maybe a little?
Take my hand. Let’s find …
New data from Nielsen paints a revealing, if not all that unexpected, picture of the current smartphone market here in the U.S.
While earlier this year we saw Android’s lead over both RIM and Apple’s iOS continue to grow, many (including us) expected that extraordinary growth to curb.
Well that didn’t happen.
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Following the riots that engulfed England earlier this month, social media such as Twitter, Facebook and even BlackBerry messaging found itself being blamed for helping the unrest. Even U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, asked “whether it would be right” to ban criminals from having access.
Thankfully, cooler heads seem to have …
Gauging the U.S. stock market’s like refereeing a game of psych-out, so caveat reader, but as short-term signals go, it looks like Apple’s misfortunes—say the world’s most illustrious CEO resigning—are not-so-disguised blessings for Research in Motion.
RIM shares surged more than 2% Thursday morning after the Blackberry …
What began as peaceful protests for the shooting death of 29-year old Mark Duggan in Tottenham have turned into something far uglier over the course of three days, as rioters and looters have moved beyond Northern London and into other cities.
Yesterday, we reported that BlackBerry Messenger and Twitter had served as primary …
