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RIM Looking To Buy Certicom For $1.50 Per Share

by Robb Dunewood on December 3, 2008 · 2 comments

Research in Motion today announced that it intends to make an offer buy all shares of encryption software company Certicom $1.50 Canadian per share.  This represents a 76.5% premium of Certicom’s closing price yesterday, Dec. 2nd.
Beginning in February 2007, RIM commenced discussions with Certicom management to evaluate a potential transaction.  At various points since beginning [...]

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Research In Motion Lowers Q3 Expectations

by Robb Dunewood on December 3, 2008 · 2 comments

I was just listening to SquakBox on CNBC and and it looks like Research in Motion’s quarter is going to be worse than they initially thought it would be.
RIM is expecting it’s quarterly earnings for Q3 which just ended last month to be between 81 and 83 cents per share.  That is down for the [...]

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The Mobile BlackBerry Homepage Has Been Updated

by Robb Dunewood on December 2, 2008 · 1 comment

Research in Motion has recently updated the mobile.blackberry.com mobile BlackBerry website.  The new portal is a little cleaner, a lot faster, and is much easier to naviagate.  My only issue with it is that there aren’t any free games for the BlackBerry Storm.

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Don Nguyen has leaked BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.75 and got the OK from his source to post it on his site for download.
CrackBerry.com did a quick video of the 4.7.0.75 in action and it seems to be considerably more responsive than 4.7.0.65 which shipped on the Storm.
Check the video out after the jump…

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Gary Krakow Likes The BlackBerry Storm

by Robb Dunewood on December 1, 2008 · 1 comment

TheStreet.com’s Gary Krakow says that the BlackBerry Storm is the best BlackBerry ever!

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Check Out Nintaii On The BlackBerry Storm

by Robb Dunewood on November 30, 2008 · 1 comment

We talked about Nintaii right before it won best game in the BlackBerry Partner’s Fund Developer Challenge.  There is a new version out and it takes advantage of the BlackBerry Storms accelerometer.
I can’t wait to see what other types of games start coming out for the the Storm…

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Barack Obama May Get To Keep His BlackBerry After All

by Robb Dunewood on November 26, 2008 · 18 comments

In a recent Barbara Walters interview, President Elect Barack Obama hinted that he may get to keep his BlackBerry after all.
WALTERS: How are you going to get along without your Blackberry?
OBAMA: (Laughs). This is a problem. I, you know, one of the things that I’m going to have to work through is how to break [...]

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For all of you would be Verizon BlackBerry Storm buyers that got that Verizon private sale flyer with the big picture of the BlackBerry Storm on it that thought you would actually be able to buy the BlackBerry Storm before November 21st only to find out that you would have to stand right in line [...]

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There is an unlocked BlackBerry Curve 8900 (Javelin) up for acution on Ebay.  The Buy it Now price is $2450.  Seeing how this device will be coming out on T-Mobile Germany in the not to distant future, this is a heck of a premium on a device that will be out in a few weeks.

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