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RIM charging off $485 million in unsold PlayBook inventory
- Research in Motion has announced that they will take a $485 million charge in the fiscal third quarter thanks to their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The company is taking the hit now with plans to put the whole fiasco behind them…
Full update and round-up of Carrier IQ tracking software scandal
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On Wednesday, news broke about a hidden application installed on most popular smartphone handsets that logs nearly everything the user does. Accompanying the news article was a 17-minute long video of developer Trevor Eckhart demonstrating how his HTC Evo 3D was tracking his key presses and even the content of his text messages.
Developer finds hidden smartphone logging app
- A security researcher by the name of Trevor Eckhart has uncovered a hidden application installed on many popular smartphones that logs nearly everything the user does. Eckhart has posted a 17-minute video on YouTube that shows how the software tracks…
BlackBerry launch event in Indonesia turns violent
- A scheduled smartphone launch event in Indonesia has turned ugly and resulted in coordinators canceling the event early. Thousands of people showed up to get their hands on the latest BlackBerry mobile phone but when rumors began to spread that…
RIM drops BlackBerry PlayBook to $199 in time for the holidays
- Research in Motion has announced via Twitter that they will be dropping the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook to $199 for a limited time. This is a significant price cut as the tablet originally launched with a $499 price tag…
Could the Blackberry London be the first device to run BBX?
- Details have begun to emerge of what could be Research in Motion's next generation Blackberry smartphone running the BBX operating system. According to an exclusive by The Verge, the reportedly named Blackberry London will be the first device to launch…
RIM will continue to support Flash without Adobe
- Research in Motion has announced they will continue to support Flash player on their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet despite the fact that Adobe revealed yesterday they were no longer planning to develop future versions of the software.
RIM faces lawsuits in U.S. and Canada over service outage
- Users of RIM's BlackBerry devices are suing the company for its days-long service outage that spread across much of the world earlier in the month. The catastrophic system-wide failure left millions of BlackBerry users in five different continents without email,…
RIM delays PlayBook OS 2.0 until February 2012
- It's bad enough that RIM's PlayBook was released on the market without key BlackBerry features like BBM or email, but now the company is saying that the software upgrade that's supposed to enable this functionality has been delayed until February. …
RIM: BBX platform combines the best of BlackBerry and QNX
- BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has officially announced the next-generation operating system that will power all of the company's devices going forward. Up until now BlackBerry OS served as the foundation for their smartphones while a QNX-based variant powered their…
BlackBerry users get $100 worth of apps following outage
- BlackBerry users across the world were hit with a massive outage last week that left them unable to send emails, browse the web or use BlackBerry Messenger for up to three days. Now that service has been restored, Research in…
RIM founder issues BlackBerry outage video apology, services restored
- Research in Motion’s founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has posted a video apology to BlackBerry users regarding the recent service outage that spanned several countries and continents earlier this week. The service disruption left tens of millions of RIM faithful…
Massive BlackBerry outage in Europe, Middle East and Africa
- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and phone networks in several countries were forced to apologize to tens of millions of users yesterday, after a server failure caused devices' Internet, email and Blackberry Messenger services to stop working. The server failed…
56 percent of smartphones sold in the last three months run Android
- More than half of all new smartphone owners in the United States are selecting Android-based handsets. 56 percent of those who picked up a new handset in the past three months went with Google’s offering, according to a new study…
RIM greenlights second wave of BlackBerry PlayBook price cuts
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Research in Motion has given retail partners the green light to slash BlackBerry PlayBook prices yet again. Staples and Office Depot have already jumped at the opportunity with others likely to follow soon, as first reported by...
RIM has 800,000 PlayBooks in excess inventory
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Research in Motion (RIM) has nearly 800,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets sitting idle in inventory. RIM had $1.372 billion in inventory at the end of last quarter, up from $618 million at the end of February, according to...
RIM reports steep drop in quarterly profit, shares sink 20%
- Research In Motion is taking a beating in the stock market after reporting another disappointing quarter. The Canadian firm saw profit before tax fall by half from $904 million, on revenue of $4.9 billion the previous quarter, to $414 million…
BlackBerry PlayBook gets $150 price cut
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Best Buy has slashed the price on RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook by $150, bringing the 64GB tablet down to $550. The 16GB model dropped to $449, $50 off the original asking price. Could it be that the PlayBook is next in line for liquidation?
Rumor: BlackBerry smartphones to run Android apps
- Research in Motion (RIM) could be looking to integrate Android application support into future BlackBerry smartphones by next year. The move could help revive slowing BlackBerry sales and give customers a much larger app selection than RIM’s App World currently…
RIM announces new $5 per month BBM Music service
- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion today confirmed rumors that it is taking a stab at the streaming music business with the announcement of BBM Music. The new service integrates with BlackBerry Messenger, the company's popular messaging service, and gives users…
BlackBerry streaming music service coming soon
- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will be launching a streaming music service to better compete with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms. The company is reportedly in late negotiations with several record labels and is looking to introduce the new…
RIM releases BlackBerry Messenger 6
- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has released an update to their Messenger service today through BlackBerry App World. This new update, dubbed BlackBerry Messenger 6, enables the popular program to interact with other applications which introduces a whole new level of…
BlackBerry maker RIM to cut 2,000 jobs worldwide
- Research In Motion has announced plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or about a tenth of its workforce, as part of a previously announced cost-cutting effort. The move comes as the company's management is facing harsh criticism from anonymous employees and…
RIM misses on revenue, delays products and plans layoffs
- Things are not looking too hot for Research in Motion in the smartphone and tablet markets. Although the BlackBerry maker saw 2012 fiscal first quarter revenues grow 16% year-on-year to $4.9 billion, profits fell 9% to $695 million during the…
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