Tag: BlackBerry

EC chooses iPhone, HTC over BlackBerry for its employees

The European Commission has now chosen the Apple iPhone and HTC devices over the RIM BlackBerry line, two years after beginning searching for a smartphone to support amongst its employees.

Security and financial impact were part of the criteria in choosing the phones, and BlackBerry security issues were a main concern.
Throughout the week, the [...]

UAE’s Etisalat Provides Free iPhones, Samsung or Nokia Phones For BlackBerry Subscribers

Following UAE’s decision to ban BlackBerry Messenger, email and web browsing, Etisalat the #1 telecom and mobile operator in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is owned by the government, announced an alternative replacement offer to blackberry (BB) subscribers on or before 31 July 2010.

The offer located at Etisalat BlackBerry Alternative webpage offers free [...]

RIM BlackPad will compete with Apple iPad

RIM, the manufacturers of Blackberry is all set to bring its own tablet computer in November month naming BlackPad. The new gadget is another addition in list of similar competitors to Apples’s wonder device iPad. RIM is the third company after Olive and Huawei to have announced its tablet.
The gadget will be Blackberry smart phone [...]

RIM’s Shipments Outpacing Rivals’, BlackBerry Hits 100M – Report

Embattled BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) received a welcome pick-me-up this week when research firm IDC said the company’s shipments are outpacing those of its four main rivals.
RIM posted the highest year-over-year gain – 40 percent – over Nokia, Samsung, LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson, thanks to its “singular focus on the smartphone market,” [...]

RIM Set to Unveil its iPhone Slayer

Research In Motion(RIMM) has something important to say and it’s invited the press to hear it.
The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 3, in New York with AT&T(T) serving as co-host.

If one were to guess, it looks like the hotly-anticipated BlackBerry touchscreen slider phone known in most circles as the Talladega [...]

BlackBerry’s Era May Be Ending

Research In Motion’s future looks bleak. R.I.M., which makes the popular BlackBerry devices, has had a traditional stronghold in sales to American companies. But that has been cracked open.
Apple said last week that more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100 companies were testing or deploying its iPhone. Meanwhile, phones using Google’s Android operating system [...]

Launch of iPhone 4 collapsing interest in BlackBerry and others

The approaching launch of the iPhone 4 seems to take away interest in devices like Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, Motorola or Palm, a study from ChangeWave determined. People planning to acquire an iPhone 4 have soared from 31 percent to 52 percent in a three month period beginning with March and ending in June. The [...]