BlackBerry CEO Thosten Heins says the tablet will be dead in five years.
While the new BlackBerry smartphones were the stars of today's launch event, the company isn't forgetting about the PlayBook tablets already on the market.
Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update, and the numbers aren't great for any tablet that doesn't start with the letter I.
The 16GB PlayBook is soon to be no more.
Research In Motion reps have let customers know that the pared-down version of the BlackBerry maker’s tablet is no longer being manufactured and will only be sold until supplies run out.…
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There is no doubt RIM’s fortunes have been receding of late. The share of BlackBerry smartphones in North America is plummeting (although still strong in other parts of the world) and revenues are down. Competition is fierce. Can new management …
Research in Motion’s mobile devices, the PlayBook tablet included, are teetering on the brink of irrelevancy — at least that’s the position video streaming service Netflix is taking.
The company confirmed Thursday that it has no plans to release an …
Computer hardware manufacturer Acer will not be letting go of its tablet division, the company’s founder Stan Shih confirmed today, after rumors circulated that the company just couldn’t keep up in the mobile world.
Companies from all walks of digital …
Research in Motion, the mobile device company in desperate need of a hit, apparently shunned the summer acquisition advances of e-commerce and hardware behemoth Amazon.
Amazon, a lovely suitor if ever there was one, went so far as to hire …
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Once again, Research in Motion’s attitude towards its dismal quarterly earnings sound inexplicably positive.
For the third quarter of 2011, RIM reported profits of just $265 million on $5.2 billion in revenue. That’s down from $329 million last quarter and …
Best Buy sold out of Research in Motion’s PlayBook tablets this Black Friday, leading to speculation that the company was canning the tablet altogether.
Best Buy confirmed to VentureBeat that it is not canceling the PlayBook; it’s just temporarily sold …
BlackBerry smartphone maker Research in Motion’s revenue fell significantly this quarter, due to lower sales of its newest tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, and shy consumers waiting for the BlackBerry 7 phones that launched three weeks before the quarter ended.…
Cloud storage provider Box.net announced today that it is launching a web-based HTML5 version of its mobile application that will bring the company’s tools to any mobile device running an HTML5-powered mobile web browser.
HTML is largely seen as a …
RIM’s next-generation BlackBerry phone running the PlayBook’s QNX operating system has finally been revealed, thanks to the mobile site Boy Genius Report.
Codenamed the BlackBerry Colt, the device could make its way to consumers some time in the first quarter …
Shares of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) fell nearly 14 percent to $30.47, down from a closing price of $35.33, after RIM released the results of its first quarter performance in its 2012 fiscal year on Thursday.
The company …
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Many are worried about the long-term viability of BlackBerry given its shrinking market share. Of course, Research in Motion is still making money and selling lots of phones. But the competition from iPhone and Android is intense, and it has …
RIM, maker of the popular BlackBerry devices, announced Tuesday that it has acquired social gaming company Scoreloop. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Scoreloop’s focus is to help mobile game developers with add social elements and in-app billing to …
The BlackBerry PlayBook by RIM has been performing extremely well by selling approximately 250,000 units during its first moth of sales, according to RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Mike Abramsky.
That’s way ahead of Motorola’s flagship Xoom tablet, which took …
Major features and new applications could be added to the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet as frequently as every two weeks, said Research In Motion Vice President of Software Alan Panezic at the BlackBerry World event in Orlando, Fla. yesterday.
But updates …
Research in Motion is taking another swipe at integrating touchscreen technology with its iconic keyboards, following the limp release of the BlackBerry Torch last summer. The company today announced the long-awaited BlackBerry Bold Touch, as well as the BlackBerry 7 …
The BlackBerry PlayBook beat expectations by selling more than 50,000 devices when it launched Tuesday, according to estimates from RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky.
That puts Research in Motion’s first crack at a tablet ahead of the Motorola Xoom …
