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Research in Motion lost less than expected in second quarter

posted onSeptember 27, 2012
by l33tdawg

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.

Yahoo's free phone offer snubs RIM's BlackBerry

posted onSeptember 17, 2012
by l33tdawg

 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.

RIM chief says BlackBerry 10 could be licensed by handset rivals

posted onAugust 14, 2012
by l33tdawg

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."

Kaspersky spots Zeus for BlackBerry

posted onAugust 9, 2012
by l33tdawg

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.

RIM accused of giving Indian government keys to secure messaging

posted onAugust 2, 2012
by l33tdawg

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.

RIM considers split, handset unit sell-off: Palm 'Groundhog Day?'

posted onJune 25, 2012
by l33tdawg

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.