Posts Tagged ‘RIM’

Android Support in PlayBook Only 5 Days Away

February 1st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PlayBook OS (QNX) | No Comments »

It was one of the big salespitches from BlackBerry at the introduction of the QNX platform; it would be able to run Android Apps. Up until now, PlayBook users haven’t seen much of that promise. On February 6th however, BlackBerry will be rolling out PlayBook OS 2.0 with Android support.

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RIM Stats

July 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Though the company is a bit shaky at the moment, RIM keep stopping the Dutch sales charts with the BlackBerry Curve 8520 being the best selling prepaid Phone in May.

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RIM to Split!?

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Though the new PlayBook is a bundle of fun in our eyes, it is far from a secret that RIM is having huge problems as share prices pretty much continue to spiral downward. The solution opted now might be to split.

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RIM Preparing Playbook for Global Launch

June 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

While our readers in the US probably already have a Playbook laying around, RIM has now announced in which countries their tablet computer will be selling next.

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RIM Acquires Scoreloop

June 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Research in Motion just announced that Scoreloop will become part of the Blackberry Developer Team to bring in their experience in creating social gaming networks.

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RBC: 250.000 PlayBooks Sold

May 19th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

By now we all know RIM will have to push hard to conquer a piece of the tablet pie, but their PlayBook is doing far from bad. RBC estimates about a quarter of a million sales for the tablet.

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Meet The PlayBook

May 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Last Thursday, MGB was present at the Meet The Playbook event RIM organized in Amsterdam. Most of RIM’s prominent speakers were present to inform developers about what possibilities they have with the PlayBook.

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Bing on BlackBerry

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

It seems like Microsoft and RIM closed a strategic partnership to bring Bing services onto the BlackBerry devices. From now on, Bing comes standard.

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BlackBerry 7; The Details

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Yesterday, RIM unveiled the BlackBerry 7 OS. That OS would have been the first smartphone OS from RIM to work on the QNX platform it bought earlyer and implemented in the BlackBerry Playbook.

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BlackBerry Receives Official Facebook App Ahead of iPad

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

While iPad consumers are still stuck without an official Facebook app, RIM is proud to announce that Facebook is launching first on their new Playbook device.