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RIM out of luck, Netflix has no plans to go BlackBerry or PlayBook
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the PlayBook, it does. Netflix has very publicly told the world that it doesn’t plan...
RIM Director: Outsiders are morons, critics can get bent
The Globe and Mail posted an article on RIM and Roger Martin on Saturday, titled Roger Martin: Defying RIM’s critics. The article attempts to get...
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins clarifies his statement: A LOT of change is needed
It spread across the web like a wildfire. When RIM’s new CEO, Thorsten Heins, said he didn’t “think any drastic change is needed,” people started...
Co-CEOs of Research in Motion step down
Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, is in a tail-spin. Facing continued erosion of sales from both the iPhone and Android, the stock price...
iOS edges BlackBerry, Android as top mobile platform in the enterprise
Check Point Software has released the results of a survey they conducted on mobile platform proliferation in the corporate world today. The study tries to...
RIM is hoping for a Samsung purchase
Oh, man. RIM stories are just getting sadder by the day. Today, Jonathan S. Geller at Boy Genius Report is claiming that a trusted source...
Apple tops Candian “Leading Edge” Brands, RIM doesn’t make the cut
Apple is all aboot the leading edge says a new survey from Ipsos Reid. As one part of its Ipsos Influence Index Study, the company...
All BlackBerry PlayBook models discounted to $299
Research in Motion, Ontarian makers of the once-popular BlackBerry, haven’t been particularly graceful in the past few years. None of their phones have done spectacularly,...
Multi-million dollar shipment of PlayBooks gets jacked
Cynics who claim you can’t even give RIM’s PlayBook tablet away might want to check their acerbic assumptions, because a shipment of PlayBooks heading from Plainfield,...
RIM’s holiday slogan: “Ho ho holy crap, we’re desperate”
Despite whatever hot air RIM CEO Jim Basillie may be spouting, RIM offering up to $300 off the PlayBook (considerably more than a 50% price...
Apple discovers last unkicked spot on RIM’s ass, kicks it
You’d think RIM could catch a pity-break at this stage of the game but, no… Apple’s iPhone just had to muscle out the BlackBerry in...
Siri goes all “BlackBerry Messenger” for a few hours
iPhone users found out today that pride cometh before a fall, as the iOS digital assistant, Siri, went off the grid for a few hours,...
Smartphone trade-ins at all time high since the iPhone 4S release
Since the iPhone 4S release earlier this month, people have been trading in their smartphones, both Blackberry and Android alike, at a record pace according...
RIM shutting down the PlayBook? (update: Rebuttal from RIM)
Alas, poor PlayBook: After a short time on market suffering the slings of arrows of critical and public derision, it looks like RIM may be...
9 out of 10 iPhone users stick with it
Smartyman data has spoken: If you have an iPhone, you probably won’t stop using it. According to a survey by UBS, 9 out of 10...
Kodak shopping patents around to very interested buyers, including Apple
In the high stakes game of patent portfolio wars, Kodak revealed on July 20th that it may be willing to part with over a thousand...
iPad competitors start slashing their prices and keep on slashing them
Now that we’re neck-deep in tablets that aren’t the iPad, a funny thing is happening: iPad competitors have been slicing and dicing prices like mad....
Patent wars could heat up, Nortel patent sale approved
We reported back on Canada Day (July 1) that Nortel managed to sell off its patent portfolio to a large consortium for $4.5 billion dollars....