By Todd Haselton |
RIM had a terrible showing during the first quarter and recently said that its BlackBerry 10 operating system is delayed until 2013. That is not good for RIM, especially since it needs that new operating system to be a slam dunk in order to compete…
By Mark Hearn |
Imagine a BlackBerry running Android. It might sound crazy, but the idea was actually “seriously” considered by RIM. Over the past couple of years, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has had its share of struggles. It’s seen switches in leadership, its latest operating system delayed…
By Mark Hearn |
Nokia is shutting down its Australia Qt offices and laying off the developers team. Former Nokia engineer Atlant Schmidt posted a message on a Qt mailing list saying that Nokia is aggressively looking to sell off its Qt assets. Qt is a cross-platform framework used for…
By Brandon Russell |
While companies are making the jump into the 7-inch tablet space, RIM is preparing to do the exact opposite, if new images are to be trusted. The company is supposedly lining up a 10-inch PlayBook — pointed out in this roadmap — though its arrival…
By Mark Hearn |
As of Monday, The New York Times discontinued support for its dedicated BlackBerry and webOS applications. The Palm Pre, and webOS in general, have pretty much gone the way of the do-do, and RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones have been struggling to hold a relevant position in today’s…
By Mark Hearn |
About a month ago, we saw a glimpse of what to expect from BlackBerry Messenger for BlackBerry 10. A few more details have been made available about the future of RIM’s popular messaging platform. New purported slides uncovered by N4BB suggest that BBM for BlackBerry 10 will feature touch…
By Brandon Russell |
What would you get if RIM’s famous hardware collided with the now defunct Palm Pre? A QWERTY slider with BlackBerry 10 guts. Do you wish this phone existed? You might be in the minority. The wait for BlackBerry 10 has been agonizing. We thought we…
By Todd Haselton |
Research In Motion investor Prem Watsa recently increased his share in the company to 9.9%, doubling his previous investment in the struggling BlackBerry maker, making him the largest shareholder in the firm. As the AP noted on Monday, Watsa’s increased ownership give a glimpse into…
By Brandon Russell |
In addition to video chat coming to BlackBerry 10 when it’s released early next year, the OS will supposedly come with voice command support. Thanks to a recent software update, those lucky few with a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device found the new voice feature…
By Todd Haselton |
Research In Motion announced on Thursday that it has released an update to its BlackBerry 10 developer toolkits. The tools. are available for free from RIM’s developer site but are currently still in beta, the company said. The latest enhancements include new APIs, for allowing…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon discusses whether or not the Google Nexus Q is worth it. Jon also shares his thoughts on the rumored Samsung Galaxy Note 2, as well…
By Brandon Russell |
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 delay is supposedly causing the company to “bleed” developers, as Baird Equity Research so curtly put it. According to data collected by the firm, which surveyed 200 developers and their outlook of BB10, interest has fallen from 4.6 to 3.8…
By Mark Hearn |
It appears that Research in Motion has been researching motion. The BlackBerry maker was granted a patent that prevents a phone’s user from sending outbound text messages while moving at specific rate of speed. Ironic in so many instances, in order to bypass this text locking…
By Brandon Russell |
In response to a question at RIM’s annual shareholder conference on Tuesday, CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed that video chat will heavily feature in BBM when the company’s upcoming mobile OS hits early next year. Simply, Heins said, “Think about adding features on BB10 such as…
By Brandon Russell |
In an encore to some comments Thorsten Heins made about the BlackBerry 10 delay, the RIM CEO on Friday fielded reader questions for The Globe & Mail to clear up why, exactly, he ultimately made the decision. “The goal of BlackBerry 10 is to bring…
By Brandon Russell |
In an effort to bring BlackBerry 10 to market early next year, Research In Motion is reportedly mandating its Ottawa staff endure six-day work weeks. Hopefully this isn’t a sign the company is farther behind than it originally thought. Along with longer weeks, RIM is…
By Brandon Russell |
Research In Motion is allegedly facing concern from U.S. carriers over the price of fees it charges carriers for access to its BlackBerry server infrastructure, Bloomberg said Thursday. The Waterloo, Canada-based company, whose stock has dropped almost 100 percent in the last four years, currently…
By Brandon Russell |
Research In Motion is on life support. There’s no denying it, especially after the company announced its next big mobile OS, BlackBerry 10, isn’t arriving until 2013. Worse, the first fiscal quarter marked the company’s first quarterly loss in eight years. Is RIM worried about…
By Brandon Russell |
The release of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 OS has been changed ad nauseam that we’re not even sure the company will survive to see the day it actually hits consumer’s hands. As it stands, we’re looking at an early 2013 release, but even then…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon compares the newly released Google Nexus 7 against the iPad and the Kindle Fire. Jon also compares Windows Phone 8 vs. BlackBerry 10, the Samsung…
By Todd Haselton |
RIM’s in the gutter, we all know that. I wanted to write an editorial on its poor fiscal first quarter earnings report yesterday, but there wasn’t much more to say that hasn’t already been said. The company needed to launch BlackBerry 10 this year —…
By Killian Bell |
Research in Motion announced yesterday that its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system had been delayed until 2013 — much to the dismay of increasingly frustrated BlackBerry fans the world over. With the Canadian company counting on this operating system — and the devices that will…
By Todd Haselton |
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins is currently speaking during the firm’s fiscal first quarter earnings (the earnings were dismal) call where he confirmed that the company is still planning to deploy 4G LTE-enabled BlackBerry PlayBook devices. Heins said the LTE PlayBooks are currently in final testing…
By Todd Haselton |
Research In Motion just reported its fiscal first quarter earnings in which it missed analyst predictions for revenue and EPS. The company noted that it’s cutting 5,000 jobs and said that its BlackBerry 10 operating system is delayed until the first quarter of 2013. That’s…
