As some of you long time RIMarkable readers may know, I am on the record several times stating that Research in Motion should buy Palm. The last time that I felt strongly about this was back in late 2008 before webOS came out and Palm’s stock price was down under $2.00.
Even though webOS is a strong mobile operating system, in my opinion, Palm just can’t seem to get right when it comes to running the company. Their stock price today (at the time of this posting) is down 19% or so to $4.60 and the downward spiral, according to some analysts, is going to continue downward to $0. (I’ve never heard of a $0 target before)
Research in Motion today announced that its new BlackBerry Push Service is now available to developers.
The BlackBerry® Push Service is an essential component of the real-time, always-on experience of BlackBerry smartphones. It offers an incredibly efficient and reliable way of sending information to your users. It also allows your application to process information in the background and alert users.
Use the BlackBerry Push Service to incorporate the characteristics smartphone customers love into your applications, including improved battery life, applications that run in the background and the ability to get instant information.
Get more information about BlackBerry Push Service here…
There have been rumors floating around that RIM was going to start building BlackBerry devices in Brazil. Looks like those rumors were true.
A senior editor from BerryReview.com was attending a RIM development seminar in Brazil where the rumor was confirmed.
They plan on working with Flextronics to manufacture the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Brazil. It looks like RIM is planning on making an even bigger play into Latin America with Brazil combined with their current plant in Mexico
Research in Motion has just announced a new webinar for developers where they will show you how to turn your BlackBerry App into a Super App, a term first used by RIM co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, last week at Mobile World Congress. [click to continue…]
Research in Motion has officially introduced BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express, a free version of BES intended for small to medium sized businesses running Microsoft Exchange. BES Express is expected to ship in March and works on Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010 as well as Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 and 2008.
Reasearch in Motion has officially introuduced the BlackBerry Tour Smartphone. The Tour is a World Edition BlackBerry the will be coming out on both Verizon and Sprint this summer.
Research in Motion has announced that the $1.50 per share take over bid for Certicom that we mentioned the other day is no underway.
Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion Limited (“RIM”) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced today that a wholly-owned subsidiary of RIM has formally commenced its take-over bid (the “Offer”) for all of the outstanding common shares of Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC) for CAD $1.50 in cash per share, subject to certain terms and conditions. The Offer will be open for acceptance until 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on January 15, 2009 unless withdrawn or extended by RIM’s subsidiary.
Research in Motion has anounced the Breaking New Ground: Fall ’08 BlackBerry Technical Seminar. This online event will be held Wednesday, Dec. 3rd from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST and is free to attend.
This free online event gives you the opportunity to build your BlackBerry solution administrator and developer knowledge without ever leaving your desk. Join us from your PC, pick and choose your sessions, ask questions of the experts, and save presentations and demos to view again later or share with your colleagues.
You can find out more information about and register for the Fall’ 08 BlackBerry Technical Seminar here.
We didn’t want to title this post “Yet Another BlackBerry Outage” because we’ve done that two or three times already. I’ve got the same things to say about todays outage that I’ve had to say about the last 3 or 4 of them. Research in Motion flat out shouldn’t have these kind of outages.
I am sure that RIM will eventually release the reason why you and I weren’t able to get email all afternoon, but as my grandfather used to always tell me… “Excuses don’t explain and explanations never excuse.”
This problem major outages that Research in Motion has experienced over the last year and a half or so simply is inexcusable. RIM needs to pour whatever resources they need to into figuring out how to get passed having a single point of failure that takes down email for large parts, if not, most of North America in a singe swoop of the sword.
