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RIM preps for BlackBerry 10’s launch by buddying up to app developers and...
(Image: m lobo) Research in Motion’s survival depends almost entirely on whether consumers will buy the BlackBerry 10 smartphones now set to launch in early 2013. And consumers’ interest in doing so...
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Why Apple’s victory over Samsung is a potential boon for RIM
With Apple’s billion-dollar legal victory over Samsung dominating tech news this week, we wondered how the outcome of the patent lawsuit would affect Research in Motion. Turns out we weren’t alone on...
View ArticleBlackBerrys are disappearing from U.S. retail shelves
Research in Motion is struggling according to nearly every conventional measure of business success: its stock price has plummeted, its market share is waning and its earnings are dismal. Now,...
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“BBM” is now a real word, according to the Collins English Dictionary
Word nerds, take note: ”BBM,” the abbreviation, noun and verb encompassing every facet of BlackBerry Messenger, is officially part of the English lexicon. Anyone who forgets how to spell it can now...
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The three biggest corporate cash hoarders in Toronto (and what we imagine...
Last month, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney accused corporate Canada of hoarding hundreds of billions of dollars of “dead money,” kicking off a heated debate over whether companies are being...
View ArticleA BlackBerry outage strikes during iPhone launch week—for the second year in...
Earlier today, Research in Motion’s U.K. branch acknowledged that users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were having service problems, which is poor timing, since the company is competing against...
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Are BlackBerrys embarrassing? The debate continues
Do you keep your BlackBerry hidden? Barack Obama does (Image: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) The New York Times started an online furor earlier this week with an article on the social shame of carrying a...
View ArticleRIM sets a launch date for BlackBerry 10
Research in Motion has, at very long last, announced it will launch BlackBerry 10 on January 30, an entire year later than the company originally planned. RIM believes the new line of smartphones, with...
View ArticleRIM’s stock surges with a vote of confidence from CIBC
CIBC has joined the ranks of companies in the Canadian investment community forecasting a brighter less gloomy future for beleaguered Research in Motion. Yesterday, the bank’s capital markets arm...
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Nokia versus RIM: a patent dispute could result in a BlackBerry sales ban
Research in Motion is on a roll this month, with a BlackBerry 10 launch date announcement and share price upgrades by several high-profile analysts. Still, it wouldn’t be RIM without some bad news...
View ArticleBlackBerry 10 makes some high-profile RIM doomsayers eat their words
Research in Motion’s recent hot streak continues with a pair of endorsements from unlikely sources. This morning, Reuters reported the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency—which dumped the...
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The best and worst moments from the Blackberry 10 launch, starting with RIM’s...
The BlackBerry Z10, which will be available in Canada next week (Image: Twitter) This morning, Research in Motion held simultaneous splashy events in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Johannesburg and...
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A mysterious sneak peek at the first-ever BlackBerry Super Bowl commercial
BlackBerry has committed some serious marketing miscues in the past, but we’re intrigued by its latest PR stunt. The company tweeted a mysterious still from its first-ever (and very expensive) Super...
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My Cheating Heart: lessons from my year on Ashley Madison
I was bored with my husband, resented my kids and yearned to feel sexy again. I was ready to have an affair By Anonymous | Illustrations by Jack Dylan Everything you’re about to read is true. I’m...
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Jesse Brown: Will smartphones make cash and credit cards obsolete?
With just one tap, you’ll soon be able use your smartphone to make a purchase, redeem a coupon, earn Air Miles and receive a digital receipt. The telecom giants say it’s the next big thing. But is it...
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Talk of mass layoffs at Blackberry completely upstage the company’s massive...
(Images: smart phone courtesy of BlackBerry; pink slip, pink slip Rick) We knew things were really bad at BlackBerry. Now we know they’re really, really bad. Rumours are swirling that the faltering...
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The big BlackBerry buyout is off and its CEO gets the boot
Sorry, Thorsten. (Image: screenshot from Youtube) Remember Fairfax Financial’s ballyhooed $4.7 billion deal to buy (and thereby save) BlackBerry? Well, it’s not happening. The Canadian insurance...
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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to the top of our Influentials list was Rob Ford’s Crackgate—a story...
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Five things we learned from Bloomberg Businessweek‘s history of...
(Image: langleyo) These days, the news out of Waterloo is almost uniformly bad: BlackBerry‘s new line of smartphones bombed quickly after being released early this year, leading to about a billion...
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BlackBerry’s latest setback: no more Alicia Keys
(Image: BlackBerry: m lobo; Keys: Walmart) So much for that branding exercise. About a year ago, when it was getting ready to launch its new line of phones, BlackBerry announced R&B singer Alicia...
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