Posts Tagged ‘RIM’

RIM’s BlackPad is a PlayBook

September 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Yesterday, RIM introduced their Playbook, a 7”multimedia tablet that should compete with Apple’s iPad. The Playbook runs an entirely new OS and is expected to hit the shelves by Q2 2011.

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RIM Trademarks SurfBook in Canada

September 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

While the discussion on a possible BlackPad was about to go silence, RIM made a move to heat it all up again as the vendor trademarked the term SurfBook in Canada.

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RIM: 50 Million BlackBerry Consumers and Counting…

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

In the second quarter of 2010, RIM has sold 12.1 million BlackBerry devices (that is up 56% year-on-year). The company calculated it has 50 million registered BlackBerry users.

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BlackBerry Passes 10.000 Apps Mark

September 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

BlackBerry App World is growing up. Research In Motion’s app store has now passed the 10.000 apps mark in about 17 months time. BlackBerry App World opened up in April 2009.

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RIM Acquires DataViz

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

Research in Motion (RIM) has acquired DataViz, the company behind Documents to Go. RIM has paid $50 million for the acquisition. The deal has not been confirmed by any of the two companies yet.

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RIM Acquires Cellmania

August 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Research in Motion has announced the acquisition of Cellmania to strengthen its knowhow in running BlackBerry AppWorld. Cellmania already provides content services for several operators.

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RIM Works on Better App World and Decreasing Revenues

August 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has been working hard on improving its App World consumer experience. As a result, developers will now be able to start billing games at $0.99, while the minimum has been $2.99.

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RIM Releases BlackBerry 6 Java SDK’s

August 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Following the announcement of the BlackBerry Torch and the BlackBerry 6 OS, RIM has now made available the Java SDK’s to the development community.

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RIM Releases BlackBerry 6 & BlackBerry Torch

August 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has released their new BlackBerry 6 OS and the BlackBerry Torch as their answer to the iOS and Android devices that are storming the market they once dominated.

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RIM Leaks BlackBerry Demographics & BlackBerry 6 API’s

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

BlackBerryCool.com managed to get their hands on a developer presentation from RIM that had yet to be released to the development community. Apart from a large amount of API related data, it also contains insights into the BlackBerry owners.

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