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BIS 3.0 Upgrade Hitting North America March 28th

March 21, 2010

Research in Motion has started sending out scheduled maintenance notifications to BlackBerry administrators and carriers in preparation of their roll-out of BIS 3.0 in North America. BlackBerry users will be without BIS access for about 4 hours. Dates, times, and details of the planned maintenance are as follows…

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Poll: Should Research In Motion Buy Palm?

March 19, 2010

This is just a quick little poll that I probably should have included with my Note to RIM post that I wrote earlier today.

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BIS 3.0 With 2-Way Gmail Sync May Coming March 21st

February 25, 2010

A few weeks ago when BIS 3.0 features were leaked, the rumors pointed to a March release. Based on an official email from Research in Motion, CrackBerry is reporting that BIS 3.0 is coming on March 21st.
Check the full email out after the jump…

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Contrary To Popular Belief, RIM Dominates The U.S. Smartphone Market

December 15, 2009

You wouldn’t know it based on all the buzz directed towards and hype coming out of that Cupertino, CA based company that used to be known for selling computers, however, the BlackBerry, not the iPhone, dominates the smartphone industry in the United States and it really isn’t even all that close.
According to ComScore who does [...]

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RIM To Buy Back $1.2 Billion Worth Of Common Stock

November 5, 2009

For those of you that follow Research in Motions stock price, you know that it has been rough for the the Waterloo, Ontario based company over the passed 5 or 6 weeks. Back on September 23rd, RIM’s stock (RIMM) was up over $88 per share. Yesterday it closed at $57.61.
That being said, RIM’s board has [...]

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Research In Motion Looking For A WebKit Developer

October 21, 2009

It was a pretty good indication that Research in Motion has big plans for it’s BlackBerry Browser when it acquired Torch Mobile, makers of the WebKit based IRIS browser. It looks like the company is chugging away on their promise to have a BlackBerry Browser “on par with the iPhone“, by next summer and they [...]

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Should Apple Be Concerned About RIM?

June 16, 2009

Pretty much ever since the day that the first iPhone was announced we’ve seen blog posts, news and magazine articles, and television reports questioning whether the BlackBerry would be able to survive once the Apple machine got wheels rolling. I think it is safe to say that Research in Motion and the BlackBerry have fared [...]

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Has RIM Stopped Updating RIM.com?

June 1, 2009

One of the places that I check regularly to see whats going on at RIM is the RIM.com website. It isn’t unusual for RIM.com to go for several days and sometimes even for more than a week or so without any updates , however, it has been well over a month since the site has [...]

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