RIM’s VP of digital marketing defects to Samsung
Research in Motion’s troubles just keep mounting. After a dismal earnings report last Thursday, the smartphone maker watched its stock lose a quarter of its value. Then on Monday, it lost its a digital marketing officer.
Brian Wallace, RIM’s VP of digital marketing and media, is leaving the company to take a position at rival phone manufacturer Samsung, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The news comes at a terrible time for RIM, whose Blackberry smartphone … Continue Reading
Bugs feast on latest BlackBerry app from Foursquare
Location-based check-in app Foursquare has released an updated version of its service for RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones, according to mobile blog Crackberry. However, any excitement by users should be short-lived.
The new version, v1.9.10, was released earlier this evening, and an issue immediately arose where some users got a false “unable to check-in screen.” Checking in, or announcing your location to your friends on the service, is kind of the point of Foursquare. Recognizing the severity … Continue Reading
Report: Windows Mobile was for work, Windows Phone 7 is for fun
Microsoft seems to have a new mantra: When all else fails, shoot for a bigger audience.
All of Microsoft’s top-downloaded paid applications for its newest Windows Phone 7 mobile devices are games — much like other mobile operating systems — compared to just one for its older Windows Mobile operating system, according to a report by Distimo.
Microsoft is running a pretty well-known and reliable play to reclaim its share in the mobile operating system … Continue Reading
Why Foursquare doesn't owe its success to the iPhone
Location-based check-in service Foursquare saw a massive amount of success, both globally and in the United States, because it focused on multiple mobile platforms rather than a single one like Apple’s iPhone operating system or Google’s Android, according to Foursquare executive Holger Luedorf.
Foursquare went against the grain in embracing the fragmentation of the smartphone marketplace, said said Luedorf (pictured left), vice president of mobile partnerships with Foursquare, in an interview with VentureBeat editor-in-chief Matt … Continue Reading
Research in Motion is alive and kicking, but still needs a boost
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion continued to grow in the second quarter of 2010 with an additional 12.1 million BlackBerry devices shipped, but wasn’t able to meet its expectations for 4.9 – 5.2 million new subscribers reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The BlackBerry maker added 4.5 million new subscribers in its second quarter of 2010, down from the 4.9 million it added a quarter earlier.
BlackBerry most recently unveiled its proposed iPhone killer, the … Continue Reading
DEMO: Fox-backed Bitbop brings mobile TV streaming to Android
Bitbop is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.
Streaming mobile video startup Bitbop was dubbed “the Hulu of mobile” when it launched back in March. Bitbop offers access to a hefty selection of popular TV shows for $9.99 a month. It’s adding movies … Continue Reading
Google's Android beats RIM BlackBerry in mobile-OS race
Google’s Android has surpassed Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS and others to become the second most-used mobile operating system behind Nokia’s ubiquitous Symbian, according to a report by Gartner. Android and Symbian will together account for about 60 percent of all mobile operating systems sold with phones by 2014, when Android will likely take on Symbian for the top-seller title.
Symbian, the software that helped push Nokia to the top of the heap in the … Continue Reading
BlackBerry maker RIM acquires Office document platform developer DataViz
BlackBerry creator Research in Motion has acquired the developer of the Documents To Go app, DataViz, according to a report by AllThingsD, a technology blog published by the Wall Street Journal.
By picking up DataViz, the BlackBerry manufacturer may be making a move to provide a free version of Documents To Go for BlackBerry users and maintain a hold on its big-business clients. Research In Motion also made another recent acquisition — Cellmania — in … Continue Reading
