Former Senior Director of Developer Relations at RIM, Mike Kirkup, give his take on the current state of Research in Motion and it’s affect on Waterloo, CA….
[Source: CTV]
Former RIM Exec, Mike Kirkup, Speaks On RIM on CTV’s Canada AM
Posted on July 31, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Mike Kirkup, Reserach in Motion Senior Director of Developer Relations, resigns…
Posted on August 30, 2011 Written by 3 Comments
In an unexpected move, Mike Kirkup, Research in Motion Senior Director of Developer Relations, resigns after 10 years at the company.
As the mobile space continues to change so quickly and this seems like a great time to step back and consider my next steps. If you wonder what I mean about the changing mobile landscape, just look at what has happened in the last two weeks – Motorola was acquired by Google, HP shut down webOS and Steve Jobs resigned as CEO from Apple.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Kirkup stated that Nothing has changed for RIM and BlackBerry. Clearly, this is not the case today… RIM has lost a good one…
RIM exec believes that “Nothing has changed” for the BlackBerry – Ughmm… Yeah it has
Posted on August 18, 2011 Written by 13 Comments
I would never expect a corporate executive to paint a bleak picture of the company they represent when doing an interview with a journalist. Eternal optimism is pretty much required both on and off the record. When a company, however, is experiencing tough times, it is always nice when the eternally optimistic views of its executives actually line up with the reality of what the company is going through. Unfortunately, this is not the case when it comes to Mike Kirkup, Research in Motion’s Director of Developer Relations.
RIM Has No Intentions Of Taking BBM Cross Platform
Posted on May 7, 2011 Written by 1 Comment
We first started hearing rumors that Research in Motion was going to take BlackBerry Messenger cross-platform back in March of this year. At a BlackBerry World Q&A session for developers, however, Research in Motion’s Mike Kirkup, when asked when this would happen, said that RIM had no plans or intentions of taking BBM cross platform.
We still may have a chance, though, at seeing some type of cross platform integration between third party IM clients and BBM as RIM could open up their API to developers allowing other chat applications to communicate with BlackBerry Messenger.
[Via BerryReview]
Video: Check Out Need For Speed Being Played On The BlackBerry PlayBook
Posted on February 14, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
Here is a video out of the BlackBerry Booth at at Mobile World Congress 2011 of Research in Motion’s Mike Kirkup playing Need for Speed on the BlackBerry PlayBook. The cool part is that it is being displayed on a TV via the HDMI port.