by Robb Dunewood | Dec 30, 2011 | BlackBerry
When it comes to smartphone platform market share in the United States, the story is starting to become more or less the same ole thing month after month… Android gains a lot, Apple gains a little, RIM loses a lot, and everyone else loses a little. For the...
by Robb Dunewood | Dec 27, 2011 | BlackBerry
Earlier this month when a federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico barred Research in Motion from using the trademarked name BBX RIM simply changed the name of their next-generation, QNX based, BlackBerry operating system to BlackBerry 10 suffering little more than...
by Robb Dunewood | Dec 23, 2011 | BlackBerry
On Research in Motion’s Q3 Fiscal 2012 earnings call, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced that BlackBerry 10 smartphones would be delayed until late 2012 because the company is waiting on new dual-core, dual-mode, LTE chipsets that won’t become available until...
by Robb Dunewood | Dec 22, 2011 | BlackBerry
Back at BlackBerry World in May of this year, Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced that Angry Birds was coming to the BlackBerry PlayBook. Lo and behold: 7 months later, not one, but, 3 versions of Angry Birds for BlackBerry PlayBook are now available...
by Robb Dunewood | Dec 21, 2011 | BlackBerry
Word on the street is that Amazon was interested in buying Research in Motion last summer and even hired an investment bank to review a potential merger, but, never got to the point of making a formal offer because RIM’s management did not want to sell or break...