Tag: RIM
BBM Canada smacks RIM with Trademark Lawsuit for BBM name
It feels like RIM just can’t win these days. RIM just lost the court battle to use the trademark BBX for their next-generation platform, and now a Canadian company called BBM Canada is suing RIM for trademark infringement for the term BBM in Canada. According to RIM’s website they own the trademark to BBM in the United [...]
Anonymous source claims BlackBerry 10 is a failure, RIM fires back….
You know I’m getting really sick of writing negative news surrounding RIM. BGR published a post earlier today that one of their sources at RIM says BlackBerry 10 is already a fail, and won’t be able to compete with compete with iOS and/or Android, at all. The post also goes on to say that RIM’s [...]
RIM announces BlackBerry 10 Smartphones Won’t Arrive Until Mid-2012
During RIM’s earnings call yesterday, a big bomb was dropped when the two CEO’s announced that the first BlackBerry 10 (formally BBX) smartphone won’t launch until mid-2012. While we had always hoped for an early launch in the beginning of next year, RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said they are waiting for a certain chipset for their [...]
Research In Motion Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results
Research In Motion Limited (RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported third quarter results for the three months ended November 26, 2011 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated). Highlights: Revenue of $5.2 billion, up 24% from last quarter BlackBerry smartphone shipments of 14.1 million, up [...]
Twitter for BlackBerry v2.1 Officially Available in App World
RIM just let us know that Twitter for BlackBerry v2.1 has officially left the private beta and is now available in BlackBerry App World. This updated version of Twitter brings multi-account support along with enhanced BBM support. BlackBerry users should start seeing the update roll into App World within the next few hours. You can [...]
RIM Releases BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing 2.0
Free application, popular with business users, dials conference call numbers and passwords automatically Research In Motion (RIM) today makes it even easier for customers to manage conference calls on their BlackBerry® smartphone with the release of BlackBerry® Mobile Conferencing version 2.0. This innovative and popular free app includes a number of enhancements, such as the [...]
RIM Announces Third Quarter Provision Related To PlayBook Inventory and Confirms Commitment to Tablet Market; Provides Update to Q3 and Fiscal 2012 Guidance
Research In Motion Announces Third Quarter Provision Related To PlayBook Inventory and Confirms Commitment to Tablet Market; Provides Update to Q3 and Fiscal 2012 Guidance Research In Motion Limited (RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today announced that it would record a pre-tax provision in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 of [...]
More Specifics For BBX, 4G PlayBook and Native PIM Apps
It just keeps getting better all the time. Kevin from BBCool was able to uncover more of the specifics we’ve been waiting for from the BlackBerry Innovation event Q & A RIM had following the event that was held recently. Ronen from BerryReview did a great job of condensing the details to the main points. We’ll share [...]
Will the first BBX Phone be called the BlackBerry Surfboard? We hope not.
Remember that device we talked about a couple weeks ago called BlackBerry London? Well new rumors floating around the internet say that RIM might be looking to brand their first BBX superphone “Surfboard”. Of course these are just rumors, and we will have to take them with a huge grain of salt, until the official [...]
RIM confirms Power Issues with BlackBerry 7 Smartphones
For a while now we’ve been hearing of some BlackBerry 7 smartphones just dying. Most of the time the dead devices are after the device has been charging all night. Well a RIM spokesperson has confirm the power issue with this statement: A RIM spokeswoman confirmed that a “limited number of customers have reported an [...]
RIM introduces the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380
Early this morning a press release came out from RIM introducing two new BlackBerry 7 smartphones, the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380. The new Bold 9790 brings the familiar design of the popular Bold 9700 and 9780 smartphones, and updates it with a high-resolution touchscreen, 1GHz processor, and 8GB on on-board memory. While the new Curve 9380 [...]
Meet the BlackBerry London, the first BBX Superphone from RIM…
Could it be? Is this a BlackBerry BBX OS powered superphone? RIM’s new BBX operating system is set to be unveiled sometime next year, with their new Superphones being available publicly mid-2012. The Verge is reporting that this could in fact be the first live shots of a BBX smartphone, which will be powered by a TI OMAP dual-core [...]
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