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BlackBerry Below Average When It Comes To User Satisfaction

by Robb Dunewood on September 23, 2010 · 0 comments

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According to a recent J.D. Power and Associates survey the BlackBerry ranks below the industry average when it comes to user satisfaction.  Out of a possible score of 1000 points across 5 categories,  the BlackBerry scored 737 pts, 27 pts behind the industry average placing it 4th on the list behind HTC with 781 pts, Read more...

Check out what went down at the Toronto International Film Festival via your BlackBerry

by Robb Dunewood on September 20, 2010 · 0 comments

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The Toronto International Film Festival just wrapped up their 10-day 2010 event yesterday.  Research in Motion was a big sponsor of the festival and had some pretty cool promotions going for BlackBerry users like a free app and fresh batteries for BlackBerry touting attendees. If you didn’t, however, have the chance to attend TIFF in Read more...

RIM Updates Locate Service Introducing Geoloaction Using Cell Tower Triangulation To Developers

by Robb Dunewood on July 19, 2010 · 0 comments

Locate Service

Research in Motion has introduced a new feature in its Locate Service offering  cell tower geolocation capability to developers for free. Users can be indoors with no GPS coverage, but your app will still be able to guide them to restaurants or points of interest (POI) around them. Although the accuracy of the fixes obtained Read more...

The BlackBerry And iPod Touch Are Like Peanut Butter And Jelly

by Rod on July 14, 2010 · 9 comments

BlackBerry + iPod Touch

This post originated on Simple Mobile Review I know that every BlackBerry user isn’t an iPod Touch owner and visa versa, however, the combination of the two devices often seems to be as common as peanut butter and jelly. Today I sat in a meeting where every user at the table had a BlackBerry and Read more...

RIM To Collect And Share GPS Data From BlackBerry Devices With Developers

by Rod on June 22, 2010 · 2 comments

Dash Navigation

I was listening to the Tech News Today podcast and at the 25 minute mark of episode 14 they said something about RIM that almost made me fall over. Before I get into the story let me set the back drop. Back in June 2009 RIM acquired a company called Dash Navigation.  Dash had one Read more...

Video: Watch The Largest BlackBerry In The World Being Built

by Robb Dunewood on May 23, 2010 · 0 comments

BlackBerry Wins As A Phone But iPod Touch Is Tagging Along

by Rod on May 14, 2010 · 14 comments

BlackBerry + iPod Touch

I felt odd sitting at the airport chatting with a group of teenagers about why they all carried BlackBerry Phones. The conversation started off with 4 kids, but, soon ballooned into a brain storming session with nearly 30  talking about how they liked BlackBerry. I was not shocked these kids liked the BlackBerry as Robb Read more...

HTC Grabbing Market Share And RIM Is Taking The Biggest Hit

by Robb Dunewood on May 14, 2010 · 10 comments

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Usually when we talk about a hardware manufacturer grabbing market share from Research in Motion, Apple and iPhone tend to be a big part of the conversation.  This time, however, according to Piper Jaffray analyst T. Michael Walkley, HTC and their line up of Snapdragon processor bearing Android and Windows Mobile devices are grabbing share Read more...