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Enderle is on crack, hypes up RIM
Really, Rob? Really?! As we look ahead to 2013, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the new year provides an unprecedented opportunity for Research in Motion to make a huge comeback. This is largely because the market is dominated by two platforms: Android, which is seen as an unsecure malware magnet, and iOS, which comes from […]
Continue reading...Department of Defense gets on the iPhone bandwagon
Monday, October 29, 2012
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The Washington Post is reporting that it’s full steam ahead for the iPhone and Android at the DoD. Things continue to look grim for RIM.
Continue reading...Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency drops RIM in favor of Apple’s iPhone
Monday, October 22, 2012
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NextGov reports: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency plans to end its eight-year relationship with the BlackBerry in favor of iPhones, according to solicitation documents posted Friday. The move could prove a major blow to ailing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. ICE plans to purchase iPhones for more than 17,000 employees, according to the notice, which states that RIM’s […]
Continue reading...RIM gets the shaft as Yahoo offers employees the iPhone 5 and other smartphone choices
Monday, September 17, 2012
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With Marissa Mayer now firmly entrenched as Yahoo CEO, the changes keep on rollin’ in. Most recently, Mayer announced a new program whereby Yahoo employees can get iPhones, and other smartphones, for their day to day work activities. While that may not seem like big news, it’s certainly rather telling for a company that had […]
Continue reading...BlackBerry 10 predictive text keyboard
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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Will this new feature help save the BlackBerry? Not likely, but it’s an interesting concept, for sure.
Continue reading...RIM removes ability for BlackBerry PlayBook users to sideload apps
Monday, April 9, 2012
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Funny how many of the things Apple’s iPhone used to get chided for – lack of a removable battery, no Flash support – are now becoming standardized across all platforms. In the most recent example, RIM is removing the ability for BlackBerry PlayBook users to sideload apps. Under the new scheme, users will have to […]
Continue reading...RIM is sinking
Friday, March 30, 2012
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Disappointing revenue, slumping earnings, no exciting products to speak of, and resignations all point to a sinking ship for a company that, at one point in time, was the smartphone leader.
Continue reading...Thanks to the iPhone, BlackBerry no longer the top dog in Canada
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Bloomberg reports: Canada’s love affair with the BlackBerry is waning. RIM has been ousted from the top spot for smartphone shipments in its home market for the first time, trailing Apple’s iPhone. RIM, based in Waterloo, Ontario, shipped 2.08 million BlackBerrys last year in Canada, compared with 2.85 million units for Apple, data compiled by […]
Continue reading...ATF abandoning BlackBerrys in favor of the iPhone
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Further exemplifying RIM’s fall from grace, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is planning to drop support for Blackberry devices and exchange many of them for iPhones. In an interview relayed first by Politoco, ATF chief information officer Rick Holgate said bluntly, “We’re going to delete the BlackBerry from the mix. The government […]
Continue reading...RIM CEOs Balsillie and Lazaridis step down
Monday, January 23, 2012
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When Apple first announced the iPhone back in 2007, the folks over at RIM were incredulous. It was utterly impossible, they reasoned, that Apple would be able to create a device with a large 3.5-inch touchscreen and achieve decent battery life as well. Indeed, by the time RIM realized that the iPhone threat was real, […]
Continue reading...Amazon considered making a bid for RIM
Friday, December 30, 2011
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Like a bat out of hell, the iPhone came along in 2007 and forever changed the smartphone landscape. Amazingly, some companies are still struggling to recover from Apple’s foray into the smartphone market, with RIM being a prime example. The Canadian based purveyor of BlackBerry devices is in turmoil. Earnings are on the decline because, […]
Continue reading...RIM to release enterprise management tools for iOS and Android
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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As the iPhone began to pick up steam after its initial release in 2007, RIM executives remained enamored with the physical keyboards that adorned their smartphones and scoffed at what the iPhone brought to the table. But amid declining marketshare, it soon became readily apparent that RIM needed to adjust their smartphone strategy midstream or […]
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Monday, December 31, 2012
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