RIM has just announced that at long last it has released a new and hopefully improved version of its App World 2.1, which should be rolling out throughout the day
Wall Street Journal | January 27, 2011 | Ezequiel Minaya
CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela's second-largest telephone service provider, Telefonica Venezuela, said it has reached agreement with Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) to continue blocking service to handsets that are reported stolen.
Officials at the local...
The worldwide mobile phone market just keeps on growing, with IDC's latest results showing a 17.9% rise in the fourth quarter of 2010 alone. The market research outfit says vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth...
Taipei Times | January 25, 2011 | Lisa Wang
Chunghwa Telecom Co (CHT, 中華電信), the nation’s biggest telecoms carrier, yesterday launched its first BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM), ending Taiwan Mobile Co’s (台灣大哥大) five-year exclusive right to sell the phone in Taiwan.
The partnership...
Bad news for Kodak this morning as a judge ruled the company’s patent infringement claim against mobile giants RIM and Apple was ruled invalid and not infringed.
RIM | January 21, 2011 | Press Release
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - U Mobile Sdn Bhd (“U Mobile”) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched the BlackBerry® solution for U Mobile customers in Malaysia.
The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.We quickly forgot the Consumer Electronics Show by last Tuesday (talk about a short news cycle) with...
While Apple Inc. (AAPL) remains top dog in the device space, Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android operating system continues to pull ahead in Millennial Media's monthly mobile device report. Android shot past Apple's OS on the Millennial ad network for the first time in December,...
AFP | January 12, 2011
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — The Canadian maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone hit back Thursday at Indonesian officials' claims it does not pay taxes or contribute to the Southeast Asian country's booming economy.
Research in Motion (RIM) Southeast Asia managing director...
Wall Street Journal | January 10, 2011
Research In Motion said it will apply Internet filtering on BlackBerrys in Indonesia to comply with a government demand to block websites containing pornography. WSJ's Spencer Ante reports on Digits.
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CNET | January 10, 2011 | Don Reisinger
Research In Motion will block pornography accessed through its smartphones in Indonesia.
The company announced today that it will develop a "prompt, compliant filtering solution" for Indonesia BlackBerry users by the country's January 21 deadline. If RIM doesn't...
LAS VEGAS — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) have teamed up to launch the BlackBerry 4G PlayBook sometime this summer.Sprint now has the distinction as the first carrier to launch the new tablet with wireless connectivity unless, of course,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In many ways, 2010 was a landmark year in consumer devices: after years of...
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) reported one of its best quarters ever, shipping a record 14.2 million devices, up 40% from a year ago. The BlackBerry maker said it added 5.1 million accounts during the time frame, pushing its subscriber base to more than...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) has announced plans to layoff about 800 workers in Finland.The job cuts, which begin next month, will carry severance packages worth 5-15 months salary, according to a company statement sent to Reuters. Nokia hopes some of the affected workers will be...
Interesting conclusions are being drawn based on some daily point-of-sale data that ITG Investment Research analyst Matthew Goldman apparently leaked to AllThingsD.Depending on who you ask or what you read, Verizon Wireless (VZ) could be too dependent on Android devices, AT&T Mobility (T) is...
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is now accepting early applications for its forthcoming tablet, BlackBerry PlayBook. Developers can submit apps to BlackBerry App World and become eligible to receive a free PlayBook if their app is submitted and approved before the device is released.Leading...
Don't throw in the towel on BlackBerry just yet. BlackBerry users ate up more mobile data than iPhone users last month, according to StatCounter.Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIMM) BlackBerry OS grabbed 34.3% of all mobile data traffic in the United States last month. Apple...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. We are nearing the home stretch of 2010, and while it’s been an eventful year for...
If there was much doubt about Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) plans for a greater share of the mobile enterprise space, it's reinforcing quite the opposite with a spate of hires on the sales side. After doing some digging, Dow Jones found that at least five...
It would be one thing if Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) was losing spark on the consumer side, which it is, but alarms must be going off at RIM's headquarters now that news is trickling in about losses on the enterprise side.Business, and particularly...
There are two wars — each filled with countless battles — taking place in the world of smart phones: market shares for operating systems and devices.A new report from NPD shows that Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android OS continues to eat away at the market...
Upstaging its larger rivals, T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) said it will be the first domestic carrier to commercially launch Samsung Telecommunications America’s Galaxy Tab device on Nov. 10.Verizon Wireless announced last week that it would offer the device, which is powered by Google Inc.’s...
In yet another sign that Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) is years behind its biggest competitors in the consumer arena, the BlackBerry maker has finally turned its App World into an online storefront.BlackBerry users can now purchase and download apps on a PC and...
