Last year’s BlackBerry Torch was supposed to catapult Research in Motion into the age of modern smartphones, but sluggish software and rusty specs left the Torch looking like an another product from a bygone era.
Now, RIM’s trying again with a few new BlackBerry Torch models that use faster processors, bigger screens, better cameras …
According to a new Reuters report, Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) is planning on opening up its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to embed in work and play apps.
The goal is not only to attract more app developers, but RIM is hoping that by inserting that popular instant messaging service into games, entertainment and …
Things are looking grim and grimmer for Canada-based Research in Motion, who said today they’d slash 2,000 jobs to counter sales declines. “Slash” would be the correct verb, too, since 2,000 equals roughly 11% of RIM’s global workforce, reports Reuters.
The logic behind the job cuts: RIM says it’s zeroed on “eliminating redundancies …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the venerable BlackBerry devices, will always be remembered as the company who liberated corporate email from …
At WWDC today, Apple unveiled its long-awaited iMessage – a real-time instant messaging service that’s essentially its version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) – to polite clapping. Great news for iOS fans; bad news for RIM, which is probably the biggest understatement ever, today.
BBM’s unique properties (instantaneous texts, …
T-Mobile’s leaked phone roadmap for 2011 has plenty of good news for Android and Blackberry fans, but no mention of Windows Phones or the iPhone.
You can check out the entire roadmap at This is My Next, including a bunch of unremarkable feature phones and dumbphones. Here are the hightlights:
June will likely bring HTC’s Sensation …
Research In Motion has recalled a little over 900 of its new-ish 7-inch PlayBook tablets, citing a quirky installation of the operating system “that may result in the devices being unable to properly load software upon initial set-up,” as reported by CrackBerry.com.
If yours is one of the unlucky handful of tablets then you may want
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Remember the Jaguar C-X75 we wrote about a few days ago, the ultra-sleek supercar of the not-so-distant future? While we geeked out over the dual low-emission engines and feathery carbon-fiber body, we couldn’t help but imagine a futuristic dashboard of corollary cool.
So imagine the collective sad trombone we heard in our heads when we
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(This post republished from Technologizer.)
One memory sticks in my mind from the Dive Into Mobile conference that All Things Digital held in San Francisco last December. It was when my friend Lance Ulanoff of PCMag.com waved his BlackBerry Torch at RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and asked, basically, why RIM couldn’t give him a …
Though Research and Motion saw its shares slide as it struggles to compete against Android and iOS, the company announced two new additions to the BlackBerry family this morning, with a fancy new OS update to boot.
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 both sport full VGA (640×480) capacitive touchscreens in addition to the full on QWERTY …
My TIME.com Technologizer column this week looks at RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, a new tablet that’s frustrating in its initial incarnation: it’s full of promise, but feels like RIM simply didn’t have time to finish it before getting it out the door.
Despite the PlayBook’s software issues, the hardware is quite pleasing. With one …
Just when you thought it was safe to pick up an iPad, Dell claims Apple’s days as the tablet industry’s big kahuna are numbered–and I’m sure you’re totally surprised.
Meet Dell’s global head of marketing, Andy Lark, who didn’t mince words about Apple’s prospects during a recent chat with CIO Australia. While Lark acknowledged the …