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Research In Motion unveiled new BlackBerry smartphones to global wireless carriers at a special event in its home base of Waterloo, Ontario but it is still months away from starting to sell them. Smartphones running the new BlackBerry 10 operating system are critical to RIM’s survival but those phones will only be available from early Continue Reading →

A flaw discovered recently in Apple’s iPhone could allow nefarious people to hack SMS messages. According to AdaptiveMobile, the iPhone stands alone with this security hole. AdaptiveMobile tested the exploit in the iPhone and compared it to Android, BlackBery, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. All the other platforms remained secure in their treatment of SMS messages. Continue Reading →

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins’s interview with the Telegraph on Thursday made headlines for his admission that the company can’t keep up with Apple and Samsung without outside help. But there’s another interesting nugget buried within the interview that didn’t get quite as much attention: Heins says that RIM took a long, hard look at migrating Continue Reading →

Research In Motion has not found success in the tablet market quite yet. The struggling smartphone vendor crossed over to the tablet space last year with its debut slate, the BlackBerry PlayBook, and it was met with mixed early reviews. There was nothing mixed about the half-billion dollar charge RIM had to take in the Continue Reading →

We all love to point and laugh when bloggers and tech writers tell us what massive multi-billion dollar public companies “need to do” to survive, or how they can easily “be saved.” When the writer offering advice is the co-founder and former CEO of a successful public company, however, his advice might at least be Continue Reading →

A northern California jury recently found that troubled handset-maker Research In Motion infringed upon Mformation Technologies’s patent covering a remote management system for wireless devices. The Waterloo-based company must now pay $147.2 million in damages, Reuters reported. The damages amount to an $8 royalty fee for every BlackBerry that connected to RIM’s enterprise server software Continue Reading →

The CEO of embattled BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says he isn’t satisfied with the company’s performance, but he’s excited about its prospects with the upcoming BlackBerry 10 system. The past year has been very difficult, Thorsten Heins said during a shareholders meeting in Waterloo, Ontario, on Tuesday. Less than two weeks ago, RIM announced Continue Reading →

Ever feel confused while staring at your cell phone bill? Of course you have. Even I’ve found myself scratching my head looking at bills for my family’s four phones, three tablets and two mobile hotspots.  In an interview this week, Verizon Wireless Director of Pricing Steve Mesnick said the company spoke to over 50,000 customers Continue Reading →

Analysts anticipated another miss ahead of Research In Motion’s first-quarter earnings report on Thursday as sales continue to stall ahead of the struggling smartphone vendor’s first BlackBerry 10 smartphone launch, which is expected this October. RIM warned in late May that it would likely see an operating loss in the first fiscal quarter — its Continue Reading →

Research in Motion is considering splitting the company in two, according to a paywalled story by London’s The Sunday Times. The BlackBerry maker could see its struggling smartphone hardware sold off, and its data network retained or licensed to others. RIM is expected in the coming days to announce an operating loss for its first-quarter. Continue Reading →