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Blackberry Replaces RIM Brand, unveils Z10 and Q10 phones and Hires Alicia Keys as Global Creative Director

BB Z10

Speaking about reinvention, CEO Thorsten Heins took advantage of the Blackberry 10 event to announce his company’s decision to rebrand itself from Research In Motion to Blackberry. The BB 10 affair took place primarily to launch the new software Blackberry 10 and two new BB phones, the Z10 and the Q10, accompanied by a basejumping [...]

Written on 31 Jan 2013 by Aimee
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1 Million Blackberry Users Leave, Revenue Drops 48%, Reports NYT

Research in Motion

The last financial quarter has been a tricky one for RIM’S BlackBerry when Research in Motion revealed on Thursday the cold, hard fact: approximately a million users around the globe deserted BlackBerry, a novel thing for a brand that has shipped a total of 200 million smartphones since its release. Yet more than this sad [...]

Written on 21 Dec 2012 by Aimee
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New Blackberry 10 L-Series Reviewed in Leaked Photos and Video

RIM Blackberry L Series

Photos and a video of Research In Motion’s Blackberry 10 L-Series have been leaked recently by Tinhte.vn and on YouTube, prompting The Verge and TheNextWeb to make reports about the new Blackberry smartphone’s features. According to The Verge, the Blackberry 10 L-Series sports a design considerably similar to Blackberry London first shown last year. The [...]

Written on 13 Dec 2012 by Aimee
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Blackberry 10 Development Pictures

Blackberry Crackberry

Here are the pictures of a new prototype of smartphone for Blackberry 10 Development. Photos from Crackberry. “This is the BlackBerry 10 Developer Alpha device that attendees at BlackBerry Jam will receive next week in Orlando. It’s not a phone that will ever go on sale, but rather is one that will allow developers to [...]

Written on 30 April 2012 by Vincent Abry
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Blackberry maker to leave consumer-oriented phones Market. Will focus on Business Customers.

RIM

Big (sad) News for Research in Motion, the Blackberry Maker : Jim Balsillie left RIM’s board of directors (he was the co-founder, joined RIM in 1992), Revenue fell 25 percent to $4.2 billion from $5.6 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, and the company will leave consumer market and will focus on Business customers. New [...]

Written on 30 March 2012 by Vincent Abry

iPad / Samsung Galaxy Note / Blackberry Curve [Size Comparison]

iPad Galaxy Note Blackberry

Here is a size comparison picture showing Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Note and Blackberry Curve (from left to right). Galaxy Note is too large for a smartphone and too small for a tablet… What you see on the left is a $ 0,01 CAD.

Written on 24 Feb 2012 by Vincent Abry
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Thorsten Heins is RIM new CEO – Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie out

Thorsten Heins

Thorsten Heins is now the new CEO of Research in Motion. Founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and other co-CEO Jim Balsillie step down. “RIM announced that Mr. Lazaridis, who in 1984 co-founded the company using a loan from his parents, and Mr. Balsillie, who joined him in 1992, had stepped down as executives and had relinquished [...]

Written on 23 Jan 2012 by Vincent Abry
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Blackberry Porsche Design P’9981

Blackberry Porsche Design P9981

RIM continues to be on Top of the News at the moment by unveiling of a 2000 $ Porsche Super Phone. The Blackberry Porsche Design P’9981 has just been unveiled in Dubai. This BB device is the most expensive ever built by RIM : 2000 dollars. It has the same specifications as BB Bold 9900 : [...]

Written on 27 Oct 2011 by Vincent Abry
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RIM offers 100 dollars of Free Blackberry Apps to customers

RIM

Research in Motion seeks to restore confidence among its 70 million existing customers worldwide who have experienced outages for several days. The solution? Provide $ 100 of free applications for a month starting 19 october and then more free apps and games until December 31. And for companies, they give one month of free technical [...]

Written on 17 Oct 2011 by Vincent Abry
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Blackberry Bold 9900

Blackberry 9900

The Blackberry Bold 9900 has been unveiled in more detail this week at Blackberry World Conference. The latest range of smartphones from RIM will run on OS 7, the new operating system from Research in Motion. It will offer a faster processor at 1.2 GHz with 768 MB of RAM, and the mobile NFC payment. [...]

Written on 05 May 2011 by Vincent Abry
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DropBox now available for your Blackberry

dropbox

DropBox, the free file synchronizing data storage service, that will save data from your hard disk to external servers, introduces its application for Blackberry. It works on the same basis, as it would when using a computer: access to your dropdown account, view the files by downloading them, take photos and videos and synchronize them [...]

Written on 06 Oct 2010 by Rose
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Mobile Phones Best Sellers in the United States

The mobile phone, which has generated the most remarkable sales records in the United States during the last semester of 2009, is none other than the Blackberry Curve model. Down in the list, the iPhone 3GS and the Motorola Droid Milestone follow respectively. These are the three models of mobile phones which have been sold [...]

Written on 27 Feb 2010 by Rose