Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down in January 2012 after several quarters of disappointing results. ...
02:09 PM, Mar 29, 2013
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said a lack of innovation at Apple has left iPhone's user interface outdated. ...
12:45 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Biztech2's managing editor Ivor Soans shared his perspective on BlackBerry Z10 with IBNLive readers. ...
04:45 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Apple could soon be getting some fresh competition for its iPhone as Blackberry unveiled it's do or die product Z-10. And the face of BlackBerry's new look is Indian-origin Vivek Bhardwaj - the head of RIM's software portfolio. ...
10:27 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Research in Motion today holds an official launch for its much-delayed BlackBerry 10 smartphones. RIM says that the phones will be released not long after that. ...
11:23 AM, Jan 30, 2013
Research In Motion (RIM) is all set to introduce its innovative line of smartphones this week starting with Blackberry 10 on Wednesday. Analysts say this is RIM's last chance to stay in the game. ...
09:18 AM, Jan 30, 2013
RIM has teetered on the brink of irrelevance and is gambling its survival on the much-delayed BlackBerry 10. ...
06:46 AM, Jan 30, 2013
RIM lost subscribers for the first time as the global number of BlackBerry users dipped to 79 million. ...
07:23 AM, Dec 21, 2012
A list of 106 passwords that the Research In Motion will not let you use on the BlackBerry 10 platform. ...
07:03 AM, Dec 09, 2012
RIM shares jumped nearly 14 per cent as investors grew more optimistic about a February launch of BlackBerry 10 smartphones. ...
05:52 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Waterloo: Research In Motion is pushing for app quality, not quantity, with its make-or-break BlackBerry 10 devices set for launch on January 30, and targeting applications to customers in various regions. RIM's projected 100,000 apps - a record for any new platform at launch - will still be a fraction of those available on Apple or Google devices. But it is a stronger showing than RIM's PlayBook tablet computer which...
07:51 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Toronto: Struggling BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion said on Friday that it resolved an outage affecting users in Europe, West Asia and Africa that had interrupted service for customers on the very day Apple unveiled its new iPhone 5. BlackBerry announced the issues in postings on Facebook and Twitter on Friday, and said it fixed the troubles after a few hours. It apologised to customers for the inconvenience caused. The outage...
06:50 PM, Sep 21, 2012
New York: It was a big week for gadget announcements as Amazon, Nokia and Motorola all tried to generate interest in their products before Apple's expected announcement of a new iPhone next Wednesday. Amazon announced four new Kindle Fire models and a new line of stand-alone e-readers on Thursday, a day after Nokia and Motorola unveiled five new smartphones between them. Makers of consumer electronics are refreshing their products for...
02:58 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Toronto: International Business Machines Corp has considered buying Research In Motion's enterprise division, Bloomberg reported On Friday, citing two unnamed sources. IBM made an informal approach for the enterprise business that operates the servers used for supporting BlackBerry email and messaging services, one of the sources said, according to Bloomberg. The report said no talks were currently underway. Under the leadership of new chief executive, Thorsten Heins, RIM has hired...
12:43 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Toronto: Canada's Research In Motion has chosen its home country to launch a PlayBook tablet with built-in support for cellular networks, a crucial feature missing from its poor-selling initial models. The BlackBerry maker said on Thursday it would launch the new tablets in Canada next week and roll them out in coming months in the United States, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The PlayBook tablet, introduced more...
08:57 AM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: Research In Motion, the manufacturers of BlackBerry range of smartphones, earlier this year had spilled the beans about the launch of the 4G version PlayBook. Now a website, Mobilesyrup, has claimed that the 4G version of the BlackBerry PlayBook is set to be launched on 31st of this month for around $549.95 or Rs 32,000 approximately. The website has claimed this quoting an internal document of a Canadian...
01:44 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Toronto: Research In Motion Ltd will sell one of its two corporate jets as part of an effort by the embattled smartphone maker to save $1 billion in annual costs throughout its operations, a report said on Tuesday. The BlackBerry maker has put its nine-passenger jet up for sale, looking to fetch some $6 million to $7 million, Bloomberg News reported, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the matter. RIM...
07:35 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New York: Research In Motion Ltd's board is under mounting pressure to consider unpalatable options such as selling its network business or forming an alliance with Microsoft Corp after the Blackberry maker again delayed the release of its next-generation smartphones, said three sources familiar with the situation. Shares in the Canadian company, which announced a steeper-than-expected quarterly operating loss on Thursday, plunged 18 per cent in extended trading, slashing its...
12:43 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Toronto: Research In Motion Ltd delayed the make-or-break launch of its next-generation BlackBerry phones until next year, in a devastating setback to the once-dominant technology company whose sales are crumbling. Shares in the company, which also announced a steeper-than-expected quarterly operating loss, plunged 18 per cent after it said it would release its revamped BlackBerry 10 devices early in 2013, instead of late this year, because the development had "proven...
06:12 AM, Jun 29, 2012
