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BlackBerry unveils budget-minded Q5 qwerty smartphone

BlackBerry unveils budget-minded Q5 qwerty smartphone
  • Posted May 14, 2013, 11:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • BlackBerry is once again on the offensive as the company unveiled a new smartphone at the annual BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando, Florida. The budget-minded Q5 handset is designed with emerging markets in mind and is expected to go on…

BlackBerry swings back to profit despite shrinking subscriber base

BlackBerry swings back to profit despite shrinking subscriber base
  • Posted March 28, 2013, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • The future of BlackBerry as a relevant player in the modern smartphone market largely hinges on its newly released operating system. So how are things looking roughly two months after launch? Not great, but not nearly as bad as they…

BlackBerry shares up 15 percent on Lenovo takeover talk, again

BlackBerry shares up 15 percent on Lenovo takeover talk, again
  • Posted March 12, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Share value in BlackBerry is up more than 15 percent following an interview with Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing in a French financial newspaper called Les Echos. The executive told the publication that a deal to acquire the Canadian handset maker…

Former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie sells his stake in BlackBerry

Former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie sells his stake in BlackBerry
  • Posted February 14, 2013, 10:56 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
  • How’s this for a vote of confidence in the newly reformed BlackBerry. Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEO of then-known-as Research in Motion is no longer the third-largest shareholder in the company after selling a roughly 5.1% stake in the Canadian…

Home Depot drops BlackBerry as official handset, switching to iPhone

Home Depot drops BlackBerry as official handset, switching to iPhone
  • Posted February 12, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Home Depot has confirmed plans to replace BlackBerry smartphones as the official handset provided to store managers, district managers, corporate-level staffers and field ops. The home improvement chain is reportedly already in the process of migrating roughly 10,000 users to…

BlackBerry is exiting the Japanese smartphone market

BlackBerry is exiting the Japanese smartphone market
  • Posted February 7, 2013, 7:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • BlackBerry is hard at work trying to regain relevance with just-revealed smartphones running the company’s new operating system but according to a new report, they’ll be doing so without the help of the Japanese market. That’s because the company formerly…

BlackBerry Z10 sets new sales records in Canada and the U.K.

BlackBerry Z10 sets new sales records in Canada and the U.K.
  • Posted February 6, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • We all know that a lot is riding on the success of BlackBerry 10 for the Canadian-based handset maker. Most would agree that it’s sink or swim at this point. The life preservers have been tossed out in the form…

RIM renames itself BlackBerry, launches BB10 and all-touch Z10 smartphone

RIM renames itself BlackBerry, launches BB10 and all-touch Z10 smartphone

Lenovo says RIM acquisition reports were taken out of context

Lenovo says RIM acquisition reports were taken out of context
  • Posted January 29, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Late last week Lenovo’s Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming said during an interview at the World Economic Forum that his company was assessing multiple acquisition targets. One of those targets, we learned, was Research in Motion. The executive was…

RIM adds music, movies, TV shows to rebranded BlackBerry World

RIM adds music, movies, TV shows to rebranded BlackBerry World
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Research in Motion has released details pertaining to a planned rebranding of its app store for BlackBerry 10, known as BlackBerry App World. The Canadian company will soon be dropping “App” from the name and adding a full-on media catalog…

Lenovo considering acquiring RIM to bolster mobile business

Lenovo considering acquiring RIM to bolster mobile business
  • Posted January 24, 2013, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Lenovo Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming said in a recent interview that the company is assessing a number of potential targets for acquisition and strategic alliances in an effort to boost their mobile device business. One of those targets,…

RIM to consider sale of hardware division after BlackBerry 10 launches

RIM to consider sale of hardware division after BlackBerry 10 launches
  • Posted January 21, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins recently told German publication Die Welt that he is considering selling the company’s hardware production division after the launch of BlackBerry 10. Heins said there was no need to make a snap decision but…

RIM: 15,000 BlackBerry 10 app submissions in two days

RIM: 15,000 BlackBerry 10 app submissions in two days
  • Posted January 15, 2013, 7:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
  • Research in Motion hasn't had much luck getting hordes of app developers interested in their platform, despite claims that App World is the second most profitable mobile application store behind Apple's. But the company is hoping to change that with…

BlackBerry X10 photo surfaces ahead of next month's BB10 event

BlackBerry X10 photo surfaces ahead of next month
  • Posted December 26, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Canadian handset maker Research is Motion isn’t out of danger just yet but as we get closer to the promised launch of the company’s next generation operating system, there are at least a few rays of light that indicate good…

Samsung tops Nokia in cell phone shipments, Apple in smartphones

Samsung tops Nokia in cell phone shipments, Apple in smartphones
  • Posted December 19, 2012, 8:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Samsung is poised to overtake Nokia as the world's top cellphone brand this year, according to iSuppli's preliminary 2012 forecast. The researcher has published its expected rankings for the top five handset OEMs with Samsung accounting for 29% of the…

Netflix, EA and RIM leave Nasdaq 100 to make way for Facebook, others

Netflix, EA and RIM leave Nasdaq 100 to make way for Facebook, others
  • Posted December 17, 2012, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • The Nasdaq, a group of the top 100 non-financial companies that trade on the stock exchange, recently updated their index last week to include Facebook. But Facebook and other additions meant that some will have to be bumped from the…

Nokia files suit against RIM to enforce Stockholm patent ruling

Nokia files suit against RIM to enforce Stockholm patent ruling
  • Posted November 28, 2012, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Nokia has decided to take legal action against Research In Motion in hopes of settling a longstanding dispute between the two handset makers with regards to patent licensing. The Finnish phone maker says they are seeking to enforce an arbitration…

BlackBerry Messenger gets free voice calls over Wi-Fi, available now

BlackBerry Messenger gets free voice calls over Wi-Fi, available now
  • Posted November 14, 2012, 1:37 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
  • Research In Motion is not expected to release its next generation BlackBerry 10 handsets until the first quarter of 2013, but the company has something for its loyal users in the meantime: free Wi-Fi calling over BlackBerry Messenger. Version 7.0…

RIM sets January 30, 2013 as BlackBerry 10 launch date

RIM sets January 30, 2013 as BlackBerry 10 launch date
  • Posted November 12, 2012, 9:42 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing With Video
  • Research In Motion has set a firm date for the launch of its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system. According to the announcement, the launch event will happen simultaneously in multiple countries around the world on January 30, 2013, and will…

Pentagon drops exclusive BlackBerry contract for iOS, Android

Pentagon drops exclusive BlackBerry contract for iOS, Android
  • Posted November 1, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Despite RIM's impending BlackBerry revamp with BB10 and updated hardware, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) announced it would be dropping its exclusivity contract with RIM. According to Reuters, ICE will be transitioning to Apple's iPhone to fill gaps…

Samsung ships twice as many smartphones as Apple in Q3

Samsung ships twice as many smartphones as Apple in Q3
  • Posted October 26, 2012, 10:32 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Samsung continued to lead the smartphone market in the third quarter of 2012, with an estimated 56.3 million devices shipped worldwide according to IDC. That’s a massive 31.3% share of the 179.7 million units shipped during the quarter, up from…

Leaked marketing video reveals two BlackBerry 10 smartphones

Leaked marketing video reveals two BlackBerry 10 smartphones
  • Posted September 28, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • An internal marketing video from Research in Motion surfaced on Vimeo last night showing two upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The clip has since been pulled but not before CrackBerry.com was able to capture several screenshots of what we can expect…

RIM resolves BlackBerry outage in Europe, Middle East and Africa

RIM resolves BlackBerry outage in Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • Posted September 21, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Research in Motion confirmed reports this morning of a BlackBerry UK outage spanning across Europe, the Middle East and Africa -- a region often referred to as the EMEA. Shortly afterward, RIM announced it had resolved the issue but warned…

Microsoft licenses exFAT file system patents to RIM

Microsoft licenses exFAT file system patents to RIM
  • Posted September 19, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, Microsoft
  • Research in Motion has entered into an agreement with Microsoft that will allow them to use the software maker’s Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) file system on select BlackBerry devices. RIM joins a number of other electronics manufacturers that have…

Yahoo moves away from BlackBerry as corporate phone of choice

Yahoo moves away from BlackBerry as corporate phone of choice
  • Posted September 17, 2012, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Steve Ballmer isn’t the only tech industry CEO in the giving spirit as of late. New Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer recently informed employees they would be allowed to select a new smartphone and that Yahoo would even foot the monthly…

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