Posts Tagged ‘RIM’

RIM Launches In-App Payments

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

Though Google is still preparing the launch of in-app payments, BlackBerry seems to have taken the lead over them by launching in-app billing support on BlackBerry App World.

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RIM Expects to sell 1 Million Playbooks in Q1

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

DigiTimes claims that Research in Motion expects to ship 1 million Playbooks to retailers in the first quarter of 2011 while the official release date still has to be confirmed by RIM itself.

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RIM Open for Playbook Apps

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has announced that developers are now allowed to upload Playbook apps to their servers. Those that do have a chance on getting a free complimentary Playbook from the company.

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The Astonishing Tribe was sold for 800.000.000 Kr

December 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A Swedish newspaper reported today that Research in Motion bought The Astonishing Tribe for 800.000.000 Swedish crowns or 87.7 million Euro.

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RIM Acquired The Astonishing Tribe

December 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Recently, The Astonishing Tribe managed to get the world’s attention with their demo video on how screens will function in our future lives. Today, the news reaches us that the company has been sold to RIM.

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BlackBerry App World Browsable Online

October 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has launched an online storefront to help consumers that prefer their apps to be purchased through a PC (or mac) instead of the mobile app store.

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RIM Teams up With Webtrends on Analytics

September 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

Research in Motion has announced a partnership with Webtrends to provide free analytics of mobile apps and games to their respective developers.

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RIM Launches Ad Platform

September 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Research In Motion (and this had to be expected from the company) is the next company to launch a mobile advertising platform aiming at the in-app advertising market.

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RIM to Drop BlackBerry OS

September 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

It was to be expected. RIM announced that the company will depart from BlackBerry OS. BlackBerry Tablet OS, the OS for their Playbook, will be replacing it.

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