BlackBerry managed to squeeze in one surprise announcement during its huge conference keynote this morning.
While many industry watchers have suggested that Research in Motion give up its BlackBerry OS and adopt Android instead, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins divulged exactly why the company avoided that route in a recent interview.
It was a bit of a surprise when former Research in Motion co-chief, Jim Balsillie, resigned from the company at the end of March, but a new report today offers some insight into his departure.
Balsillie was working on radically …
Imagine you’re a Samsung executive. You’ve just emerged from yet another Consumer Electronics Show, where your products and press conference were among the hottest tickets at an otherwise dull affair. Your televisions and phones have consumers drooling — hell, even …
Research in Motion on Thursday launched a streaming music service inside of its popular BlackBerry Messenger app.
RIM has been struggling lately to show that it’s committed to fighting against the gains of Google Android and Apple iOS with full …
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion said Monday evening that it will cooperate after police said BlackBerry Messenger played an instrumental part in coordinating the violent rioting and looting in London during the past few days.
In a statement to VentureBeat, RIM …
Research in Motion is planning to bring its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) app to Android and Apple’s iOS, according to the mobile site Boy Genius Report.
Sources tell Boy Genius Report that BlackBerry Messenger will land on Android first, while …
RIM has filed suit against Kik Messenger, a small company that has built a tremendously popular chat application, claiming patent infringement.
We’re still trying to get more details about the case, which was filed in Canada’s Federal Court in Toronto. …
Facebook can’t remind us enough that its new messaging service, announced today, isn’t an email killer. Instead, it’s an all-encompassing messaging system that works across Facebook chat, email, and text messages.
Now that we’ve seen the product, it’s clearly not …
The United Arab Emirates has called off a ban on Research in Motion’s BlackBerry service that would have left nearly a half-million users without the service just days from now, it announced today.
The UAE is the first of a …
