The Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog
Over on the Inside BlackBerry for Business blog, Research in Motion has listed the “Top Five Features of BlackBerry 7 for Business Users“. Those features are:
Seriously RIM? You’ve have got to be able to come out with a better list than this…
Although it was not officially confirmed, we heard over the weekend that Research in Motion bought DataViz, makers of the popular Documents to Go productivity suite which allows smartphone users to view, edit, and create word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs, for a rumored $50 million. Yesterday, however, in a statement to CNET, RIM confirmed the purchase:
RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus on supporting the BlackBerry platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but the transaction was not material to RIM in the context of RIM’s financial results.
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DataViz, maker of Documents to Go, put out a press release letting Palm WebOs users know that they will not be releasing a version of Documents to Go for WebOS. DataViz makes it seem like the lack of support from Palm is a big reason as to why the suite of applications initially made popular on Palm OS won’t be coming to WebOS. I wonder, however, if Research in Motion’s rumored acquisition of DataViz is even a bigger reason…
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