BlackBerry said earlier this month that it will explore strategic alternatives, and now it looks like it may be ready to make its popular BlackBerry Messenger service a stand-alone company. The report comes from The Wall Street Journal, and says that the new unit...
Earlier this month, BlackBerry announced that it was considering a number of strategic options including selling the company. My first reaction was sadness – similar to the time when I heard that
Ten years after it launched its first smartphone, BlackBerry (BBRY) may be nearing the end of an era. Today the company said its board has formed a special committee to explore strategic alternatives. The Canadian company's largest shareholder, Prem Watsa of Fairfax Financial, is...
A new carrier was announced in Brazil last week. On Telecom will begin its operations backed by billionaire financier George Soros. The new competitor, which is targeting a niche in the Brazilian market, will offer home and office connections over TD-LTE. On Telecom is...
BlackBerry (BBRY) may follow the lead of other troubled tech companies by going private in an effort to turn its business around without the scrutiny of shareholders who want quarterly progress. Reuters is reporting that BlackBerry has held recent discussions with Silver Lake Partners,...
Mobile device management was arguably one of the trendiest terms in enterprise security during 2012, but this year the state of MDM is rapidly changing.
BlackBerry's Q10 smartphone is set to hit T-Mobile US stores early next month. The Q10 runs the new BB10 operating system, and includes both a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard with keys 30% larger than those on the BlackBerry Bold.
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BlackBerry is bringing the popular BBM message service to iOS and Android devices this summer, and will add Skype to the operating system for its Z10 smartphone.
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BlackBerry is holding its BlackBerry Live event in Orlando today...
BlackBerry is getting a boost from its longtime partner Telefonica. The global carrier has made a commitment to buy roughly $200 million worth of smartphones, services and solutions from the struggling Canadian firm. Canada's Export Development Bank is incentivizing Telefonica with a $200 million...
BlackBerry (BBRY) surprised Wall Street with a small profit during the fourth quarter, and said that it has already shipped a million Z10 smartphones. The Z10 is BlackBerry's new touchscreen phone based on its new BB 10 operating system. Although the new phone has...
BlackBerry is finally getting its touchscreen Z10 smartphone into stores this weekend, more than six weeks after the product launch. The delayed launch is probably due to carriers prioritizing testing for other smartphones that they expect to be more popular, such as the Samsung...
Looking perhaps to ride the buzz being generated by Samsung’s expected unveiling of a new smartphone, BlackBerry and Verizon Wireless announced that the carrier would begin taking pre-orders on the latest BlackBerry Z10 device March 14, with shipments expected to begin on March 28.
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While the wireless world begins its annual migration to the Iberian Peninsula for the Mobile World Congress event, I took a bit of a step back in time and found some unexpected comfort.
BlackBerry will start sales of its recently launched z10 touchscreen smartphone and the BlackBerry Q10 (BB10), a hybrid smartphone that includes a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard, throughout Latin America beginning with Venezuela on March 12. The company, which was until recently known as...
BlackBerry (BBRY) just can't catch a break. It's long-awaited Z10 smartphone is finally hitting the market, just as Samsung, now the world's leading maker of mobile devices, readies its own enterprise solutions.
"Checks indicate Samsung is preparing an aggressive push into the enterprise segment and...
BlackBerry’s attempt to re-infuse the market will get some help from T-Mobile USA mobile virtual network operator partner Solavei, which said it will be the first domestic company to offer BlackBerry’s Z10 device. The company is currently offering the smartphone contract-free for $999, with...
After months of speculation about its chances for survival, Research in Motion made it clear today that RIM will not be around much longer -- the company is changing its name to BlackBerry. “We have reinvented the company, and we want to represent this...
Research In Motion said the long awaited launch of its BlackBerry 10 operating system will happen Jan. 30, at an event where it will also show off the first two smartphones running the new OS.
The company noted that the event will take place “simultaneously...
Verizon Wireless’ attempt at cashing in on the “app store” craze appears set to come to an end as the operator said it plans to shutter the storefront by March 27, 2013. The carrier noted that most of the applications available through its branded...
While investors and consumers in North America have been busy bashing Research in Motion, customers in emerging markets have been busy buying its products. The Canadian company that was a smartphone innovator and pioneer in the pre-iPhone days released its first good news in...
Troubled Research in Motion (RIMM) is playing to its strengths with the launch of the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone and operating system. The company is billing its newest device as a smartphone with the functionality of a personal computer, targeting the corporate clients that...
This week, we focus on our twice-yearly handset lineup graph. In previous assessments, we had focused on the stock keeping unit (SKU) imbalance between Apple and Android, which led to what we called the “Android World.”
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion saw its stocks rise late last week following a Bloomberg report stating that IBM was interested in acquiring RIM’s enterprise-services unit, which is considered to be the company’s most valuable asset. Bloomberg cited two people familiar with the situation.
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For a while there (before the introduction of the iPhone), it seemed Research In Motion just about had it all. BlackBerry sales were growing worldwide and the devices were so addictive that the public called it “CrackBerry.”
