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How BlackBerry Lost Its Status as the Enterprise Mobile Gold Standard
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-04-15 04:48
I was reading Michelle Maisto's well-researched and well written story about how enterprises are slowly moving away from BlackBerry as the standard for secure mobile communications.
While I was doing this, I was waiting for the new BlackBerry Z30 GSM phone to restart—a process that was taking far longer than it should. This device which I'm reviewing for eWEEK should have been BlackBerry's tour de force.
BlackBerry hits bump in turnaround road, shares plunge
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-07-01 00:55
BlackBerry's total market value plunged by more than one-fourth on Friday after the smartphone maker reported dismal quarterly results, prompting ever-deeper skepticism about a long-promised turnaround.
BlackBerry, which has struggled to claw back market share from the likes of Apple Inc's iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy phones and other devices powered by Google Inc's Android operating system, reported a loss in the fiscal first quarter ended June 1, and sales of its make-or-break new line of devices were softer than expected.
RIM CEO Says Licensing BlackBerry 10 Is "Conceivable"
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-01-21 10:44
The CEO of RIM, Thorsten Heins, has been speaking to German newspaper Die Welt ahead of the launch of BlackBerry 10 devices — due in Q1. Heins told the newspaper he has not ruled out licensing the new OS to other manufacturers. Asked whether RIM might not go down the licensing route, as Microsoft has with Windows Phone, he said (translated from German by Google Translate): “Before you licensed the software, you must show that the platform has a large potential. First we have to fulfill our promises. If such proof, a licensing is conceivable.”
RIM plans to launch six BlackBerry 10 devices in 2013
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-01-10 00:07
Before today, it was known that Research in Motion had two BlackBerry 10 smartphones that it would launch sometime in 2013; one with a touchscreen-only design and one with RIM's physical QWERTY keyboard. Today, the company's chief marketing officer claimed that RIM has a lot more BlackBerry 10 device models it plans to sell.
RIM's BlackBerry 10 Service Plans Should Be No Secret to Investors
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-12-24 00:12
RIM announcement of upcoming changes in services fees was a surprise to investors and thus caused the stock to drop, even as company revenues and cash continue to grow.
If there is one thing that investors hate more than nearly anything else it is a surprise. In fact, investors, and their joined-at-the-hip financial analysts apparently hate surprises even more than taxes, the Fiscal Cliff or boardroom fraud.
