This afternoon Research in Motion (RIM) released a press release stating that the company has hired J.P. Morgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets to assist in creating a “strategic review”. This news comes as the company is about to lay off upwards of 3,000 employees and is struggling to manage over $1 billion in unsold inventory....
If you're like me and you're waiting for Research in Motion's (RIM) Playbook to go on a mega fire sale (because the company is slowly sinking), we may soon be in luck! Last quarter, RIM's mountain of unsold Blackberry devices and Playbook tablets shot past $1 billion in value, further revealing the struggles that the...
J.D. Power and Associates released their 2012 Canadian Wireless Total Ownership Experience Study yesterday, and within it reveals we're buying more smartphones than ever. 54% of Canadian wireless users own smartphones, a rise from 36% a year ago. The survey is based on responses from 14,000 cellphone customers fielded from October 2011 to March 2012....
When there was a mysterious 'Wake Up' protest outside the Sydney Apple Store in Australia, all fingers pointed at Samsung--but we were all wrong. Turns out it was Research In Motion as they admitted the flash mob protest was theirs. Now, their 'Wake Up' campaign has been revealed. Just visit wakeupbebold.com to see the final...
RIM today kicked off their BlackBerry World developer's conference in Florida, and here they unveiled their "BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha developer testing device" for developers to test out the new BB10 interface. Here's what was unveiled in BlackBerry 10, seen as RIM's chance to get back into the smartphone game. The Verge went hands on...
A few days ago we heard about an awkward protest outside the Sydney Apple Store by a group of people dressed in black and shouting 'wake up'. Many were quick to allude the stunt was the brainchild of Samsung but the company later denied any involvement to SlashGear: Samsung Electronics Australia has nothing to do...
Reuters notes sources have informed them of former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie's ambitious plan to offer RIM's software and services to carriers as part of a plan to turn the company around. Ultimately, his plans were rejected and Basillie parted ways with the company. Balsillie wanted to offer carriers the option of allowing non-BlackBerry devices...
RIM announced last November they had plans to support iOS with their BlackBerry Mobile Fusion platform. Now, they have launched the BlackBerry Mobile Fusion app in the App Store. The service will allow IT staff to manage your iPhone, as the Financial Post reports: Using a single Web-based console, IT staff will be able to...
Canada's tech darling, Research in Motion (RIM) has started to fire off its senior level staff, according to a source close to the matter, reports the Globe and Mail: “Lots of high level people within RIM were let go today,” this person said. “Quite a few. Big shake up.” An example would be co-CEO Jim...
We've heard previous rumours of RIM's BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) coming to iOS, but this time around further evidence in the form of a job posting leads us to believe something is in the works for some sort of RIM iOS app. AllThingsD refers to a LinkedIn ad, where RIM seeks to hire a 'Senior iOS...
We all saw this coming. As noted by Bloomberg, sales of Apple's iPhone has finally outsold the BlackBerry in Canada last year: 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 IDC and Bloomberg show. In 2010, the BlackBerry topped the...
