In case you didn't catch it last week, the news that Research In Motion is in a "death spiral" has been greatly exaggerated. After the company announced its latest financial results, some analysts have changed their tune, and now believe RIM is back on the road to world domination—or at least isn't going to implode.
Research In Motion Ltd. posted its third straight quarterly loss, but the struggling BlackBerry maker did increase its subscriber base and cash position.
The company's loss narrowed to $235 million in its fiscal second quarter from $329 million a year ago as RIM tamed costs through a restructuring process that included widespread layoffs and closing manufacturing facilities.
Research In Motion is getting no respect from Marissa Mayer.
Yahoo's new CEO informed employees yesterday that they would be getting the new smartphone of their choice from Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC. Through the program, Yahoos will have access to the industry's newest and hottest phones, including the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC Evo 4G LTE, and Nokia Lumia 920.
Research in Motion's upcoming operating system, BlackBerry 10, could soon be made available for non-BlackBerry devices, according to the company's chief executive Thorsten Heins.
Heins told Bloomberg that QNX, the software that BlackBerry 10 is based on, is "already licensed across the automotive sector... we could do that with BlackBerry 10 if we chose to."
While most of the world is treating the once-mighty BlackBerry as an also-ran in the smartphone market, malware authors still think it’s worth a crack – and have crafted a package designed to drop a Zeus malware variant on the device.
This post to Securelist by Kaspersky’s Denis Maslennikov details five new Zeus-in-the-mobile (ZitMo) files that have turned up in Europe. One of them is a dropper for Android, while the other four target the BlackBerry platform.
Research in Motion refuted on Wednesday a new round of Indian media reports, which claim that the BlackBerry maker has granted the Indian government the encryption keys to its secure corporate email and messaging services.
India is one of the Canadian smartphone maker's few growing markets, where it is expanding aggressively. The company is facing falling sales elsewhere as customers abandon the BlackBerry in favour of Apple's iPhone and a slew of devices using Google Inc's Android software, leading to RIM's shares falling by more than 50 percent over the past one year.
Late Friday, a Northern California District judge ruled that Canada-based Research in Motion infringed on a patent held by Mformation, a company that specializes in mobile device management. The patent in question relates to the software that runs on RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
ITProPortal is now turning its attention to Research In Motion and its recent troubles, which has seen the company announce 5,000 job cuts. Adding to this, is the news that the company’s flagship upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS has been delayed until 2013 – instead of arriving on phones toward the end of this year.
A little less than a year ago, ZDNet’s Jason Perlow predicted three outcomes for the BlackBerry maker: independence, assimilation, or oblivion.
The company was given three valid options — and it still had time on its side — to pull itself out of the then-quagmire it had found itself in.
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. Since then, its stock price has dropped significantly and for a short while dipped below the $10 a share mark. The newspaper cited Amazon and Facebook as possible buyers of the hardware business at a knocked-down price.
