Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, has finally got to see the fruits of its hard work as its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet outscores the Apple iPad in Best Buy Canada and its sister chain Future Shop. The BlackBerry PlayBook, which has been regarded to as a tablet joke by many, has managed to outsell the market leader last week, although the exact...
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Canada-based smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) has come in last place in a listing of the world’s greenest electronic companies. This is the first time that the firm, who is well-known for making the BlackBerry smartphone, has been featured in the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, which was published on Wednesday. The list ranks the top 15 electronic...
Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) has finally launched the BlackBerry Messenger Music app in the United States, Canada and Australia. The company made the official announcement in a blog post, saying that the service’s launch in other countries will follow shortly. RIM has unveiled the on-the-go music service last August to directly compete with...
After the shenanigans at RIM yesterday and over the weekend the mobile giants surely thought the rest of the week would be quiet. However, it’s not to be as thousands of Blackberry users report further BBM and network downtime today. Users have been reporting failures of both the BIS services used to deliver email and the companies main selling point BBM. The service...
The BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900, which was just released recently, has generated some much-needed buzz for its maker Research in Motion. From the smartphone’s improved user interface to the new BlackBerry 7 mobile operating system, keyboard, the 640 x 480 touchscreen and the 1.2 GHz processor that runs it, the Bold Touch 990 is still a very solid option for smartphone...
Research in Motion (RIM) has announced that they will be launching the BBM Music, a new BlackBerry Messenger service aimed at boosting its share in the consumer smartphone market and capitalizing on the success of its BlackBerry Messenger service. RIM recently launched the public beta of the BBM Music in Canada, United Kingdom and the United States, a prelude to the official...
Police officers who are investigating the the riots in London will be able to track down and arrest those who are responsible based on their BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) conversations with those who took part. BlackBerry owners who used the social network to send messages and plan the unrest, could find their personal data, including their names and those they contacted,...
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Playbook tablet PC has overtaken Apple’s iPad as the most sought after tablet in the market, according to a study conducted by money saving site ILoveCashback.com According to the site’s statistics for the month of July, the BlackBerry Playbook is attracting 22 percent more searches than other leading tablets, including...
Research in Motion (RIM) has announced the Blackberry Messenger 6.0, a significant update that takes one of the smartphone’s most popular apps and turns it from being just an instant messaging app into a social platform for other applications. This spring, RIM showed some of the capabilities of the new BBM at the BlackBerry World, and while it may not cause so much...
Recent reports have suggested that mobile phone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is not doing well in the smartphone market and the its BlackBerry PlayBook has problems of unimpressive sales figures, however RIM seem undeterred as a new story says that the company is looking to branch out to a new market: TV entertainment. According to a report by NerdBerry, RIM is looking...