The Analysts are down on BlackBerry

It seems like that analysts are a bit down on BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. Jim Cramer, founder of TheStreet.com and host of MSNBC’s “Mad Money”, had this to say on RIM’s stock on last nights episode.

It’s kind of like Mobil, it’s just too high. And yet, I think RIM’s going to have a good quarter. Steel yourself for pain … but then I would ‘mon back* it.

According to Matthew Hoffman, an analyst at Cowen and Company, in a Forbes.com article, RIM is facing competition on all fronts and if it “continues to lose share to competitors like the Motorola Q or Nokia E61, the company will have to restructure its offerings, putting pressure on margins and prices going forward“.

Written by Robb Dunewood on July 11th, 2006 with no comments.
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Make cheap international calls from your BlackBerry

MiNO Wireless, a Sunnyvale, California based mobile services company, has recently released it’s new java based mobile application for your BlackBerry that allows you to make International calls to any number in the world at very low rates.

MiNO is basically a Voice over IP (VoIP) client similar to Vonage or Skype, but instead of making calls from proprietary handset or from your computer, you make Internet based calls via a java client installed on your BlackBerry.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on July 11th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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Free BlackBerry Ringtones

 
An anonymous commenter left us a link to TuneUsIn.com, a site that claims to have free BlackBerry ringtone downloads. I cannot vouch for the copyrights on these ringtones and the about section of tuneusin.com is pretty light so download with caution.

BlackBerry Ringtones

Written by Robb Dunewood on July 11th, 2006 with 24 comments.
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