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BlackBerry Storm 2 to Sport Second-Gen SurePress Touch Screen After All??
Written on 29 May, 2009 at 8:14 in Featured, Technology | viewed 1,289 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Recently leaked images of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry Storm successor, unofficially dubbed “Storm 2″–and a very early hands-on review–seemed to suggest that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) had decided to scrap the infamous “clicky” SurePress screen technology that set RIM’s first touch BlackBerry apart from the pack. However, RIM’s co-CEO yesterday clearly stated that SurePress is alive and well. So will we see a second SurePress BlackBerry Storm?. Full Story : CIO.com…..
BlackBerry Throws iPhone Sales a Curve
Written on 4 May, 2009 at 22:33 in Featured, Technology | viewed 251 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The iPhone lost its spot as top-selling phone to the BlackBerry Curve in the first quarter of 2009. According to an NPD survey, the five top-selling smartphones between January 1 and March 31 were the BlackBerry Curve, the Apple iPhone 3G, the BlackBerry Storm, the BlackBerry Pearl (not including the Pearl Flip) and the T-Mobile G1 with the Android operating system. Full Story : NYtimes.com……
RIM rolls out latest BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Written on 4 May, 2009 at 13:49 in Featured, Technology | viewed 256 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
As expected, RIM rolled out its BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0. The latest version offers more IT administration controls and integrates RIM push technology with Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise. RIM’s latest effort also focuses on role-based controls, identifying “disallowed” applications and scheduling deployments. Full Story : ZDnet.com……
Obama to Get Back BlackBerry at Last, Toughened by NSA
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 13:29 in Featured, Technology | viewed 452 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The presidential BlackBerry is undergoing final testing before being handed back. The NSA is hammering on the SecurVoice software which has been loaded onto the Obama-phone and is in the last stages of testing just how secure it might be. The BlackBerry is an 8830, the standard business handset, but the added software encrypts both calls and messages. Full Story : Wired.com…..
RIM posts strong results and outlook
Written on 3 Apr, 2009 at 11:18 in Featured, Technology | viewed 277 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Research In Motion posted surprisingly strong quarterly earnings on Thursday and offered a rosy outlook that signaled further growth despite the global economic slowdown as consumers embrace its newest BlackBerry smartphones. RIM’s profit rose to $518.3 million, or 90 cents a share, in its fourth quarter ended February 28, from $412.5 million, or 72 cents, a year earlier. Full Story : Reuters.com….
RIM Launches BlackBerry App World
Written on 1 Apr, 2009 at 12:15 in General | viewed 355 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
BlackBerry users now have an app store of their own, as Research In Motion has launched its BlackBerry App World for discovering and buying new mobile programs. App World offers an over-the-air way for BlackBerry users to find, download, purchase, and install applications. RIM said it has lined up thousands of developers to contribute content, and has organized the store by categories that include entertainment, news, music and video, and travel. Full Story : InformationWeek.com…
BlackBerry App World : A new name for BlackBerry App Store
Written on 5 Mar, 2009 at 13:25 in Technology | viewed 344 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Leading smart phone maker Research In Motion is working on new application store front for its BlackBerry handhelds. The new BlackBerry App World is RIM’s attempt to emulate some of the iPhone’s phenomenal success with consumers, who can choose from thousands of applications in the iPhone apps store on iTunes.
(Continue reading)RIM: Battery Not Source of BlackBerry Bold Overheating
Written on 1 Mar, 2009 at 13:39 in Featured, Technology | viewed 374 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion confirmed that NTT DoCoMo has halted sales of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone in Japan due to overheating. RIM said that the battery wasn’t the source of the problem. DoCoMo started selling BlackBerry Bold devices in Japan last week. BlackBerry Bold supports DoCoMo’s 3G network and also includes Wi-Fi and GPS.
Research In Motion Profit to Be at Low End of Target
Written on 11 Feb, 2009 at 10:39 in @ a glance | viewed 206 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry phone, said fourth-quarter profit will come in at the low end of its targets, signaling the company sacrificed margins to gain customers. Subscriber gains will be 20 percent higher than the 2.9 million forecast in December, Research In Motion said today in a statement. Full Story : Bloomberg.com……
@ a glance : RIM: Software bugs are the ‘new reality’ of manufacturing
Written on 27 Jan, 2009 at 13:10 in @ a glance | viewed 227 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Software glitches are part of the “new reality” of handset manufacturing, said Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Full Story : FierceDeveloper….
@ a glance : IBM, RIM Mobilize Business With Lotus Software and Developer Tools for the BlackBerry Platform
Written on 22 Jan, 2009 at 11:30 in @ a glance | viewed 212 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) today unveiled new Lotus collaboration software and developer tools on the BlackBerry(R) platform that will bring collective intelligence to BlackBerry smartphones. Full Story : IBM…….
(Continue reading)@ a glance : RIM’s BlackBerry Application Storefront now accepting submissions
Written on 21 Jan, 2009 at 14:04 in @ a glance | viewed 258 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The BlackBerry App store is slated for a spring launch (exact date has not been confirmed) and RIM announced today that they’ve sent notice to their developers to begin submitting applications. Let’s just hope the devs haven’t flown the coop in anticipation for Palm’s webOS. Full Story : Mobilecrunch……
(Continue reading)@ a glance : Obama Plans to Keep his BlackBerry
Written on 18 Jan, 2009 at 14:25 in @ a glance | viewed 166 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
President-elect Barack Obama told CNN today he had a plan to “hang onto” his beloved BlackBerry, but did not explain how he would overcome legal and security concerns.. Full Story : PCWorld……
(Continue reading)iPhone Gets the Top Spot.
Written on 8 Oct, 2008 at 15:36 in Business | viewed 262 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
After the release of 3G phone and the price cut, Apple boosted its share of smart phone market by 55% within the past three months. 30 percent of U.S. consumers who purchased Apple’s new iPhone 3G from June through August 2008 switched from other mobile carriers to join AT&T. The top four best-selling smart phones based on unit-sales to consumers were as follows:
1. Apple iPhone 3G
2. RIM Blackberry Curve
3. RIM Blackberry Pearl
4. Palm Centro
BlackBerry to Boost Mac Support
Written on 22 Sep, 2008 at 8:01 in Product, Technology | viewed 223 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
BlackBerry maker RIM plans to release a set of new tools which will address a number of longstanding complaints from Mac users. Currently, some of the important functions offered by BlackBerry Desktop software for Windows is not available for Mac. New Mac tools are expected to be released during the first half of next year.
TATA launches BlackBerry In India
Written on 21 Sep, 2008 at 10:12 in Technology | viewed 194 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
While security issues arising from the BlackBerry service is still under investigation by Indian government, Tata Teleservices, a mobile services company in India, launched BlackBerry mobile services. The Indian government requested RIM earlier this year to provide access to e-mails and other communications sent or received on BlackBerry devices. But RIM denied the request saying the encrypted information send across the BlackBerry infrastructure cannot be read by anyone even it self.
McCain Invented the BlackBerry
Written on 17 Sep, 2008 at 15:36 in Politics, Technology | viewed 198 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
“If John McCain hadn’t said that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ on the day of one of our nation’s worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week”, said Bill Burton, Barack Obama’s campaign spokesman,in response of the comment made by a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Earlier McCain policy adviser told reporters “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create”, showing his blackberry. McCain has acknowledged that he doesn’t know how to use a computer and can’t send e-mail. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is a Canadian company.
First BlackBerry Flip Phone
Written on 16 Sep, 2008 at 10:30 in Product, Technology | viewed 298 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled the first BlackBerry Flip smartphone. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 will be available later this year through wireless operator T-Mobile. The quad-band EDGE based BlackBerry Pearl Flip smart phone weighs only 3.6 ounces with two high-resolution, light-sensing color displays. The external LCD in the BlackBerry makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset. Pearl flip has a large SureType® QWERTY* keyboard like in the earlier Pearl models. It features a 2 megapixel camera with flash, zoom and video recording. The quad-band phone will operate on GSM networks in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and can connect to EDGE.
RIM fixes BlackBerry Enterprise Server bug
Written on 19 Jul, 2008 at 0:29 in Technology | viewed 218 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A critical bug in BlackBerry Enterprise Server(BES) (which is severe enough to makes the US Department of Homeland Security post a security alert), has been fixed by RIM. Hackers exploit a security vulnerability in the PDF distiller component of the BlackBerry Attachment Service,to break into company networks. By getting BlackBerry users to open malicious PDF files attached to e-mail messages, attackers could compromise servers running BES. BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is the name of the middle ware software package that is part of the BlackBerry wireless platform from Research In Motion.
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(Continue reading)BlackBerry twice popular as iPhone.
Written on 16 Jun, 2008 at 10:16 in Business, Technology | viewed 190 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
BlackBerry maker RIM took 44.5% of the US smart phone market for the first three months of 2008, up from 35.1% in the previous quarter. Apple’s iPhone came in second place with 19.2% of the market in the first quarter. Palm and Samsung were in the third and fourth places respectively with 13.4% and 8.6% of the market. BlackBerry smartphones have a strong hold in the corporate world, where it got its start,but it’s expected to have a tougher time winning the hearts of consumers.