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Research in Motion has announced BlackBerry Innovation Forum 2012 dates for both the United States and Canada. Started back in 2011, the BlackBerry Innovation Forums are intended for anyone who manages, develops, or architects BlackBerry devices or BlackBerry Enterprise Server in the workplace.

Head over to the BlackBerry Innovation Forum website for a complete list of dates in the United States and Canada…

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Be Bold Team

One of the first things the new Research in Motion CEO, Thorsten Heins, said he is going to do is find a new marketing boss.  I think this new Be Bolder infographic illustrates why…

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BlackBerry Most Popular Smartphone in the UK

As bleak as the story is for Research in Motion in North America, primarily the United States, folks around the world are still fond of the BlackBerry.  This is definitely the case in the United Kingdom where, for the second year in a row, the BlackBerry is the most popular smartphone on the market.

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BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365

Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones and allows customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. The service is available at no additional charge to current medium-sized or enterprise subscribers of the Office 365 suite or standalone Exchange Online and works with BlackBerry smartphones on business or consumer data plans.

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BlackBerry PlayBook Sale

Earlier this month Research in Motion started selling all three models of the BlackBerry PlayBook for $299.  We didn’t quite understand this pricing because we couldn’t imagine that anyone would buy anything other than the 64 GB model.

In a not so unexpected move, however, Research in Motion has lowered the price of the 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook back down to $199.  The 32 GB model is $249 and the 64 GB model is still $299.

 

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Thorsten Heins

In a recent CrackBerry.com interview Research in Motion CEO, Thorsten Heins, had this to say when asked if we would ever see BlackBerry Messenger on other platforms…

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SMRpodcast

We recently recorded SMRpodcast #101, Finger in a Light Socket which is now online and ready for download.  This week Rod is back off vacation and airs his list of pet peeves with the Google Nexus.  We talk a lot about the leadership change at RIM and Chris is annoyed by negative review of Windows phone.

Have a listen…   

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BlackBerry London

It would appear that Research in Motions 2012 road map will consist of a couple of new BlackBerry 7 running Curves, a new PlayBook with HSPA+, and 2 new BlackBerry 10 devices, the BlackBerry London and a full QWERTY keyboard plus touch screen addition to the BlackBerry Bold line.

Here’s what BGR had to say about it:

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