As part of their forward-looking strategy, ailing smartphone giant RIM is leaving behind much of its development related to Blackberry 7 and below, focusing instead on making Blackberry 10 a more enticing proposition. The latest service to get the axe is Blackberry’s current Enterprise Servers. This is allegedly due to the difficulties in making the [...]
While Android and iOS are duking it out at the lofty peaks of the smartphone market share charts, there is also an interesting duel happening for 3rd place. It seems that the gradually increasing popularity of Windows Phone and the free-falling plummet that Blackberry is experiencing are leading to the two operating systems swapping places [...]
With Blackberry 10 being pushed back to a release at some point in early 2013, you could easily be forgiven for letting RIM‘s next flagship OS and devices slip off your radar. However, RIM are determined to keep interest in the upcoming OS high, and as such have made an early revelation about the resolutions [...]
The recent talk of Samsung being lined up as a potential buyer of the right to use the Blackberry 10 OS on their phones has turned plenty of heads. Taking the talk beyond rumour and into the realm of possibility was RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, who quite openly said in an interview with the Telegraph [...]
What’s this? A genuine bit of good news to come from the beleaguered headquarters of RIM? It would appear so, as the manufacturer of once-loved Blackberry phones has seen its share prices jump by over 4%. The share spike isn’t entirely of RIM’s own making however, as it has come largely due to the rumour [...]
The details slowly leaking through about RIM‘s next major OS update, Blackberry 10, have had a few exciting bits here and there. The predictive text functionality looks intuitive and user-friendly, and the new Blackberry Messenger looks set to take the already-brilliant service to new heights. The latest piece of intriguing information about BB10 revolves around [...]
If you had to choose one Blackberry feature that could save RIM from the ever-deepening financial abyss they’ve found themselves in, most of you would have to choose Blackberry Messenger. While RIM’s Blackberry phone sales are declining at an alarming rate, the instant messaging service remains a key selling point of the phones, and is [...]
These are not good times for RIM, with the company recording persistent losses each financial quarter, as well as delays to the long-anticipated release of Blackberry 10 and major job cuts at the company. Despite this, the Canadian phone giant is remaining defiant that the costs of the current structural changes they’re going through will [...]