Toronto: Research In Motion has parted ways with a senior executive involved with the company's move into "cloud-based" services, adding to a string of high-level departures from the BlackBerry maker. Jim Tobin, senior vice-president for software and business services reporting directly to co-CEO Jim Balsillie, left the Canadian company months ago, RIM confirmed on Thursday in an email. It has never officially announced the departure. His exit further depletes a...
01:14 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Toronto: The company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone is working frantically to end a three-day global service disruption that has frustrated millions of its customers and pumped up pressure on its management to make sweeping changes. Research In Motion, in a hastily announced conference call on Wednesday, vowed to eventually deliver all delayed email and instant messages to customers in five continents affected by the outage. It later told some...
06:35 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Toronto: The two men who created the iconic BlackBerry company have been knocked off the world billionaires' list. With the shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) getting drubbing after its less-than-expected first quarter results and poor forecasts, co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are no longer billionaires, Forbes said Thursday. According to it, the net worth of RIM's high-profile co-founders has sunk. "Both entrepreneurs easily made our annual...
10:23 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Toronto/New York: RIM's PlayBook tablet bombed with influential technology reviewers who called the iPad competitor a rushed job that won't even provide RIM's vaunted email service unless it's hooked up to a BlackBerry. The poor initial response to a device the company hopes will get it onboard the tablet computing explosion overshadowed a splashy coming-out party in New York Thursday evening, where co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis drummed up...
10:55 AM, Apr 15, 2011
Toronto: Shares of Research In Motion (RIM) sank as much as 12 per cent during after-hour trading Thursday after the BlackBerry maker hinted at less-than-expected results in the current quarter while releasing its fourth quarter earnings. According to Thursday's results, RIM netted a $934-million profit on total revenue of $5.6 billion during the last quarter of 2010. During this period, the BlackBerry maker shipped 14.9 million smart phones, taking its...
02:01 PM, Mar 25, 2011
Toronto: Research In Motion's Jim Balsillie on Tuesday brushed off Steve Jobs' critique of RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer, saying the Apple CEO's barbs made no sense outside of his company's "distortion field." Jobs on Monday said a batch of seven-inch-screen tablets, including the PlayBook, that will compete with Apple's 10-inch iPad would be "dead on arrival" when they hit the market. He also boasted that iPhone sales had overtaken...
11:16 AM, Oct 20, 2010
Boston: BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion said it is hopeful that its dispute with India and the UAE over the issue of data security will be resolved successfully, but reiterated that it "cannot compromise the security architecture of its enterprise solution." RIM is continuing discussions with governments in India, UAE and other countries, as well as with service providers, and "they believe we have made good progress in those discussions," RIM...
12:29 PM, Sep 17, 2010
BlackBerry Storm2 will be first launched in the US and Canada. ...
11:28 AM, Oct 16, 2009
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