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Apple Outsells RIM in Canada for the First Time
Surprisingly, the Canadian-based smartphone manufacturer RIM is outsold by Apple for the first time in history. A recent report suggests that RIM is no longer the favorite brand in the country. According to the statistics collected by IDC and Bloomberg, the Cupertino-based Apple shipped more smartphones than Waterloo, Ontario-based Research…
RIM Confirms the PlayBook Will Get BlackBerry 10
The Canadian based smartphone manufacturer RIM launched its tablet, the PlayBook, last spring that runs an operating system different from BlackBerry’s other devices. The device is based on QNX, an operating system that will serve as the backbone for the next generation of BlackBerry devices, planned for this year. But…
RIM Looks to Expand BlackBerry’s Sales in India
Research in Motion (RIM), a Canadian-based company has announced its intentions to expand the current sales of its BlackBerry smartphone in India. Economic Times of India reports that the Canadian-based company will aiming to increase its presence in the country, with covering 160 more cities in the country this year…
RIM’s co-CEOs Exit, Former COO Takes the Authority
Research in Motion, a struggling Canadian mobile company is going to get a major change in leadership as its much defamed co-CEOs Jim Ballsillie and Mike Lazaridis are quitting, according to The Wall Street Journal. This is certainly big news coming out of the Waterloo-based company. The former COO of…
iPhone 4S Launch Pushes iOS Market Share by 20%
The marketing firm Nielsen recently released some results that reveal that since the launch of iPhone 4S back on October 2011, Apple has seen a massive growth in its iOS market share in the last quarter. However, Android did have a stronghold on the mobile market in that month with…
Apple’s App Store Now Worth More Than RIM
The BlackBerry manufacturer RIM (Research in Motion) seems to be in lot of trouble for recent few months. The company failed to produce a feasible smartphone competitor for the market. Also, recent outages further pushed the company to the new lows. To confirm this, Brain Hall recently reveals that Apple’s…
BlackBerry 10 Would Be the Official Name of RIM’s Next Mobile OS
The co-founder and CEO of Research In Motion (commonly known as RIM) announced earlier that the next mobile OS of the company will be named as BlackBerry BBX. However, the recent tweet from the company now suggests that the official name of the next generation of RIM’s mobile operating system…
RIM Reveals BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380
Research in Motion has recently launched two new Blackberry smartphones, i.e. the Bold 9790 and the Curve 9380. Both these smartphones are running Blackberry OS 7. The new Blackberry Bold 9790 comes with a physical QWERTY keyboard. It features a 2.44-inch screen with a 360 x 480 pixel resolution, 5-megapixel…
RIM Faces Class-Action Lawsuits over Outages
Nothing is going right for RIM at the moment. Recently, RIM deferred its PlayBook software update and now it is reported that RIM is to face class-action litigations following three-day service outage that left millions of Blackberry customers without email, messaging and/or ability to browse. According to Reuters, the outage…
RIM Defers PlayBook Software Update
On Wednesday, Research In Motion or RIM released a statement suggesting that the company has decided to hold-up playbook tablet’s system update. The stock price immediately fell 65 as soon as the statement from RIM surfaced. Senior Vice President for Blackberry PlayBook, David J. Smith stated in a blog entry,…
