All the stories tagged with RIM
RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.
RIM, Netflix And Electronic Arts Fall Out Of Nasdaq 100
12/19/2012, The Nasdaq 100 that is the US index of top performing non-financial companies has decided to give the boot to RIM, Netflix and Electronic Arts, considering how the three companies’ fortunes did not perform as expected, but rather, decided to [...]
Blackberry 10 to have 70,000 apps available at launch
12/19/2012, What good is a mobile operating system if there aren’t any apps to support it? With iOS and Android boasting more than half a million apps each, that’s definitely a lot of choice that users have which could explain why [...]
Blackberry 10 leaves a good impression in New York
12/19/2012, With Blackberry 10 launching in little over a month’s time, we’re sure many are curious about the platform and wonder if it will be good enough to help RIM regain some of its former glory. We know that RIM is [...]
Newly leaked Blackberry 10 UI screenshots reveal Twitter and Facebook apps
12/18/2012, The Blackberry 10 L-series was leaked a while back by Vietnamese website Tinhte, providing us with the clearest photos to date. Well unsurprisingly they managed to spend some quality time with the device, and in the process they have managed [...]
Blackberry 10 to undergo invite-only testing with 120 companies and government agencies
12/18/2012, So far based on what we’ve seen of Blackberry 10, the platform and its accompanying devices are starting to shape up to be pretty promising, but then again without major support, RIM’s efforts could have all been naught. Well the [...]
BlackBerry 10 Announcement On January 30, 2013
12/17/2012, It seems that the last chance saloon for RIM (Research In Motion) and their BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system will officially kick off at the end of next month – namely, January 30th, 2013. I guess BlackBerry 10 would give [...]
US Immigration will be piloting RIM’s Blackberry 10 solution
12/13/2012, Back in October, it was reported that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency would be switching from Blackberry devices to the iPhone, with the agency claiming that RIM was no longer able to meet their mobile technology needs, [...]
Wi-LAN sues RIM over alleged Bluetooth patent infringement
12/12/2012, With RIM so close to launching its Blackberry 10 platform and its accompanying device in early 2013, the last thing they need would be legal troubles to trip them up, but that’s exactly what has happened. It seems that a [...]
Blackberry 10 SDK is now gold
12/12/2012, RIM is pegged to launch Blackberry 10 towards the end of January in 2013, a platform which we’re sure many Blackberry fans are looking forward to, as well as the rest of the world who are curious as to whether [...]
RIM launches Blackberry 10 news and updates page, teases L-series in photo
12/10/2012, We’ve seen RIM’s Blackberry 10 L-series leaked several times in the past, but we think that this is probably the closest thing we’ll get to an official photo for now. It seems that RIM has recently launched a Blackberry 10 [...]
RIM Launches BlackBerry 10 Ready Program
12/06/2012, With the BlackBerry 10 launch just around the corner, RIM is pitching in a new program for its enterprise customers. Called BlackBerry 10 Ready, the program aims to woo business customers into trying BlackBerry 10 by offering a free BlackBerry [...]
Facebook For BlackBerry 3.3 Now Available
12/05/2012, Facebook version 3.3 for RIM’s ailing BlackBerry platform has just been made available over at the BlackBerry App World storefront, which means folks who are on Facebook most of the time when it comes to keeping in touch with the [...]
These are the 106 passwords you can’t use with Blackberry 10
12/05/2012, Blackberry used to be (and probably still is for some) the choice of companies and governments due to its secure nature, and come Blackberry 10 RIM is hoping that security will remain a feature that the company is known for. [...]
