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 the embarrassment of not having acquired the right to use the trademark before actually using it.
RIM finds itself in another legal battle over the use of BBM, short for RIM’s 50 million user plus BlackBerry Messenger mobile IM service, with BBM Canada, an industry group of broadcasters, advertisers and ad agencies, that has been using BBM in their branding for nearly 70 years.
BlackBerry Messenger users have been informally referring BlackBerry Messenger as BBM for years, and, after RIM started officially using the acronym, has become a core piece of RIM’s brand, and is a linchpin of the company’s global expansion, so it is doubtful that RIM will just stop using BBM.
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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 mid 2012.
Yesterday, however, BGR released an exclusive report citing a high-ranking RIM employee claiming that BlackBerry 10 devices aren’t delayed because RIM is waiting on a new chipset, but, because BlackBerry 10 devices don’t work.
Research in Motion responded in an official statement stating that the anonymous claims are inaccurate and uninformed reiterating that the delay is due to chipset availability and any suggestion to the contrary is simply false.
Honestly, does it really matter why BlackBerry 10 is delayed?
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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 up the company.
(Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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I if you missed out on the first round of $199 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets you are in luck. Best Buy and Staples both have (at the time of this post) $199.99 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook models in stock and you can pick them up online and in the stores while supplies last.
In an effort to better promote BBM Music, Research in Motion’s new social music sharing and discovery service, the company is offering free 4 month subscriptions to users who sign up to BBM Music by Jan 4th.
What is really cool is that RIM is offering 4 free months of BBM Music to both new and existing users of the service…
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BlackBerry App World v3.1.0.56 is out of beta and now available for download to all. New features in BlackBerry App World v3.1.0.56 include:
App Gifting App Begging - allows users to beg their BBM contacts to buy BlackBerry Apps as gifts- Content Rating - allows content providers to rate the maturity level of their apps allowing users to filter content based on said content rating
- WiFi Only Support - permits BlackBerry App World user to download when only Wi-Fi is available
- New Language Support - Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Dutch
If you haven’t already been prompted to download the latest version of BlackBerry App World, you can pick it up by heading to http://www.blackberry.com/appworld.
Press Release
WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Dec. 15, 2011) – Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported third quarter results for the three months ended November 26, 2011 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated).
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