Yesterday, we reported that Research In Motion’s head of global sales Patrick Spence had resigned after 14 years with the firm. Spence, who has responsible for Middle East sales growth for RIM, has surfaced at Sonos as the firm’s new chief commercial officer. The move was first reported by Reuters on Thursday evening, which also said

There have been several rumors and even alleged screen shots suggesting that Research In Motion was interested in licensing its popular BlackBerry Messenger service, lovingly referred to as BBM, for months and months now. Those rumors have just been shot down by an unnamed RIM source who recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal. While

RIM’s downward spiral doesn’t seem to be slowing any time soon. The company announced on Wednesday that its global sales chief Patrick Spence has resigned. Spence spent 14 years with Research In Motion. This is serious business, especially as RIM tries to build its market share in EMEA and emerging markets. Spence was responsible for

The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) again ruled in favor of Research In Motion and Apple in a patent infringement suit brought by Eastman Kodak. The claims were made in the ITC’s latest initial determination, which was published by judge Thomas Pender. “I hereby reaffirm on remand that no violation of Section 337 of the Tariff

To compete with devices like the iPad and Transformer Prime, Research In Motion seems to believe that all its PlayBook really needs is a little LTE love. The company promised an upgraded version of its misunderstood tablet would hit sometime this year, and an FCC filing suggests its arrival is all but imminent. We saw

RIM, Nokia and Motorola have an idea of what a nano-SIM card should look like but, Apple, on the other hand, has an entirely different proposal that it thinks the industry should adopt. To address that problem, Motorola and RIM recently suggested a design for an industry-wide SIM that adopts technology from Apple’s proposal and

Noah’s subbing for Jon R this week to tackle questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Noah addresses whether you should you buy an iPhone now or wait for iOS 6 and the next iPhone. And what about BB10 – does RIM still have a shot? Find out in this

Fresh images of RIM’s latest BlackBerry 10 operating system have surfaced following a press event in London. The pictures show off several features we’ve already covered in detail, such as the widget-filled homescreen, improved camera interface and a new app tray, but they appear to be installed on the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Prototype device,

The United States Department of Defense has officially approved six of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 7 devices for use on its networks. The approval will allow members of the Defense Department, including members of the U.S. Army, to upgrade to RIM’s latest BlackBerry models. The DoD requires that each phone go through extensive testing before it

Following a series of leaks, there isn’t much we don’t already know about the BlackBerry Curve 9320. But today Research in Motion has made the budget handset official. It looks just like the device we’ve already seen in those leaked images, with a built-in FM radio and a dedicated BlackBerry Messenger key. The Curve 9320

This week on The Evolution of Research in Motion, the Canadian smartphone maker has announced that it will be teaming up with TomTom to bring HD Traffic to BlackBerry devices. We’re a bit surprised that the company didn’t out this announcement during its own show last week, but at least it’s a step forward for

Research In Motion on Tuesday appointed Frank Boulben as its new chief marketing officer and Kristian Tear as its new chief operating officer. “Kristian and Frank bring extensive knowledge of the rapidly changing wireless global market and will help RIM as we sharpen our focus on delivering long-term value to our stakeholders,” said Thorsten Heins, RIM’s

Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon talks about the rumors of Apple using “liquid metal” to build the iPhone 5. Jon also shares his thoughts on the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 as well as his opinions on BlackBerry 10

While we don’t have much indication of what kind of hardware to expect out of Research In Motion when BlackBerry 10 hits, we can at least get an idea of where the company’s head is at. And, judging from the names, someone in the RIM hierarchy has been playing quite a bit of Call of

Research in Motion unveiled its next-generation BlackBerry operating system during its BlackBerry World event in Orlando, Florida, earlier this week. And if you’re a BlackBerry fan, it was a rather bittersweet event. BlackBerry 10 looks like it’s going to be a very promising release — even to an iOS user like me — but it’s

You may associate the BlackBerry brand as being all business, but Research In Motion is hashing out deals in order to cater to the full spectrum of mobile trends. The handset maker announced a partnership on Wednesday that will bring 11 Gameloft games to BlackBerry 10 at launch. Among the titles optimized for the platform:

We met up with a developer yesterday to bring you a quick unboxing of a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha unit. We should note that this device doesn’t actually run BlackBerry 10 — none of them do — instead, it’s a watered down version of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. There’s only a browser and a camera

So BlackBerry 10 isn’t ready (yet), and while Research In Motion was eager to show off a few neat features, the OS still seems to be a long way off. Quite frankly, in order to give us — along with consumers and investors — confidence RIM can compete against the likes of iOS and Android, we

Nokia dove head-first into the patent wars on Wednesday when it announced that it has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion, HTC and ViewSonic. It believes the three companies are infringing on a total of 45 patents. “Nokia is a leader in many technologies needed for great mobile products,” said Louise Pentland, chief

During a press briefing at BlackBerry World 2012 in Orlando, Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins promised that RIM will launch a 4G-capable BlackBerry PlayBook later this year. The device will support LTE networks, but Heins didn’t provide an exact launch date for the enhanced tablet. He did, however, say that enterprise customers will have

We just came from a briefing at BlackBerry World 2012 (don’t forget to check out our keynote coverage) here in Orlando where RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took a rare moment to speak directly to the press. He explained RIM’s current stance, why he didn’t know there was so much turmoil within the company before he took

Earlier today during BlackBerry 10 Jam in Orlando, Florida, RIM announced its commitment to paying BlackBerry 10 developers a minimum of $10,000. The company is guaranteeing that rate for the first year that an app is available in BlackBerry App World. In the past, RIM has tried to spark developer support by offering free PlayBooks

During the BlackBerry 10 Jam keynote here at BlackBerry World 2012 in Orlando, RIM’s vice president of developer relations Alec Saunders discussed BlackBerry App World’s growth. Saunders confirmed that the application store is now home to more than 99,500 applications and 25% of them are compatible with RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. That’s a far ways

Despite cries that devices such as the Kindle Fire were “killing” Android, Google’s mobile operating system is continuing to strengthen its presence among U.S. smartphone buyers. According to the latest figures published by comScore on Tuesday, Android had a 51% grip of the U.S. smartphone market in the three-month period ended March 2012. That’s up

Research In Motion may be heading toward an all-touchscreen future with BlackBerry 10, but the company says it doesn’t plan to abandon its hardware QWERTY fans. In addition to addressing the issue during Tuesday’s keynote, a RIM spokesman confirmed with PhoneScoop that keyboard-equipped devices running the company’s newest software will arrive after the first wave