Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks!
Yesterday I wrote about Ewan MacLeod’s claims that Silicon Valley developers are missing out on potentially lucrative markets by ignoring Nokia’s Ovi Store. I titled the post “iPhone devotion blinds...
View ArticleRIM announces new BlackBerry web browser, 'SuperApps', BES Express server
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion made several announcements that showed the company...
View ArticleBlackBerry Messenger blamed for fueling London riots, RIM cooperating
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion said Monday evening that it will cooperate after police said BlackBerry Messenger played an...
View ArticleBest Buy sells out of PlayBook, cancels Black Friday orders (updated)
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Best Buy sold out of Research in Motion’s PlayBook tablets this Black Friday, leading to speculation that the company was canning the...
View ArticleAndroid commands half of the U.S. smartphone platform market
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Google’s Android operating system is kicking ass and taking names in the mobile software market, and Apple’s iPhone is on the rise in the...
View ArticleRIM said to have spurned Amazon’s acquisition advances
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Research in Motion, the mobile device company in desperate need of a hit, apparently shunned the summer acquisition advances of e-commerce...
View ArticleRIM sloughs off manufacturer Celestica as it reevaluates supply chain
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Research in Motion is cutting its supply chain up, starting with smartphone manufacturer Celestica, which will stop RIM production...
View ArticleCash-strapped RIM to sell private jet in bid to save $1B, reports say
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Add jet-setting executives to the list of things hard-hit Research in Motion can’t get off the ground. The mobile company, beset by...
View ArticleWorst board in America: HP, Yahoo, RIM compete for dubious prize [infographic]
HP has lost $80 billion in value in the last two years. Yahoo has lost $42 billion, and RIM $78 billion. And before a quick rebound to $86 billion in market value, Bank of America shed a staggering...
View ArticleSmartphone wars: Google and Samsung largest, Apple growing faster
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale ComScore just released its June 2012 U.S. mobile report, and the results were mostly predictable. The unholy trinity of Google, Samsung,...
View ArticleRIM gives out 6K BlackBerry 10 dev prototypes to seed App World
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale SAN DIEGO, Calif. — BlackBerry 10, the hyped mobile operating system that could resurrect the Research in Motion brand, is still months...
View ArticleHustle and flow: Why RIM believes BlackBerry 10 can beat the competition
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale SAN DIEGO, Calif. — BlackBerry 10 is late. Late for its originally scheduled release date, and even later to a mobile revolution that some...
View ArticleAs Android hits 75% market share, can anyone tell me why this is not Mac vs...
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale The latest IDC numbers are out, and Android is by far the undisputed heavyweight champion of the smartphone world. If Android was Mike...
View ArticleTechnology 2012: The year’s winners and losers
2012 has been an amazing year in technology. We’ve seen the clash of titans in mobile as Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released new phones, tablets, and mobile operating systems. We’ve seen a...
View ArticleAT&T sold 110K smartphones a day last quarter, including 7.2M iPhones and...
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale AT&T took a moment to toot its own horn this morning, announcing that it sold more than 10 million smartphones in the last quarter. And...
View ArticleIn death, BlackBerry gives life to startups in southern Ontario
TORONTO — Best known, perhaps, for being the headquarters of BlackBerry, Waterloo is a small suburb of Toronto with a population of 98,000 in which 500 startups were born in 2012. I’m in Ontario,...
View ArticleiPhone, Windows Phone growing faster than Android in U.S
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now The conventional wisdom in the smartphone market is that Android is overtaking everything else. But in surprising news released this morning by...
View ArticleWhy BlackBerry is no Burberry
Stephan Geyer / FlickrA BlackBerry user Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Research in Motion (RIM) officially changed its corporate name to BlackBerry on January 30, 2013. Having...
View ArticleRIM’s latest earnings show why BlackBerry 10 can’t get here soon enough
RIM’s third quarter numbers 2013 are in, and they prove one thing: BlackBerry 10 needs to get here — and quick. RIM pulled $2.73 billion in revenue last quarter, and while that slightly beat...
View ArticleCash-strapped Nokia and RIM make good with patent-licensing deal
Once bitter patent rivals, Nokia and RIM are now hugging out their differences. Nokia announced this morning that it’s settling its patent spat with RIM. With the deal, RIM agrees to cough up a...
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