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RIM Shares Drop 18 Percent
If things aren’t already looking bad enough for RIM, the makers of the quickly dying Blackberry, the company’s shares have dropped almost 18 percent at...
RIM Continues To Bleed Money, Cuts Jobs, Delays OS
From the “This is getting repetitive” department, RIM is crumbling. They are continuing to fire people left and right with their latest pink slip hand-out...
RIM To Sell Blackberry Handset Business To Facebook Or Amazon?
Following last week’s announcement that Research in Motion (RIM) would begin layoffs, the struggling smartphone maker is reportedly considering selling its Blackberry hardware business as...
Layoffs Begin At RIM
Research in Motion (RIM), the company that makes the dying Blackberry platform and hardware, has been having a tough past few months. With their stocks recently tanking to...
Apple and Samsung Dominate 55% Of All Smartphone Shipments, Over 90% Market of Revenue
The mobile race has come down to two companies at this point; both Apple and Samsung account for 90 percent of all smarphone market profits...
Celestica Waving Good-Bye To RIM, No Longer Making Their Handsets
Celestica Inc., a multinational electronics manufacturing services company headquartered in Toronto, has decided that it’s time to leave behind RIM and focus on new endeavors...
RIM Discontinues Low-End PlayBook
RIM’s poor attempt at a tablet hasn’t done well. The iPad continues to dominate, and the Amazon and Barnes & Noble Android variants seem to...
RIM Stock Tanking, Hits Single Digits
RIM isn’t only in trouble with customers. It seems like the company is also getting hit pretty hard by the stock market. For the first...
RIM Stock Drops 10% After More Bad News
Making fun of RIM and saying “neener neener” to their considerable financial issues is pretty low-hanging fruit for tech journalists (one of them, apparently, being...
Apple Board Member Caught Using A BlackBerry
Millard Drexler, member of the Apple Board of Directors and the CEO of J.Crew, was caught committing the most heinous of crimes: Using a BlackBerry....
Things Get Worse At RIM, 40 Percent Of Workforce To Get Cut
It’s easy to harp on RIM for its continued stupidity, but we often forget on this site that there are a lot of really hard-working...
Judge Tosses Out Kodak’s Patent Complaints
Kodak’s hopes to get Apple and RIM on the ropes with some patent infringement claims have been smashasized into little pieces by ITC judge Thomas Pender,...
RIM Admits To Involvement In The Australian Anti-Apple Wake Up Campaign
It’s official; RIM was the company behind the Wake Up campaign that took the Internet, and more particularly Australia, by storm last week. The campaign,...
The Witch Hunt Continues: RIM May Be Involed In Anti-Apple ‘Wake Up’ Campaign
Last week, sure-footed witch hunters were out in full force trying to figure out who was involved in launching the bizarre ‘Wake Up’ campaign in...
RIM’s Balsillie Wanted To Open Up BBM To iOS
RIM’s recently-resigned co-CEO and board member, Jim Balsillie, reportedly wanted to open up certain BlackBerry services to other platforms such as iOS… specifically, BlackBerry Messenger....
RIM Continues To Spiral Out Of Control
Today, RIM reported its abysmal 4th quarter financials. Revenue is down 25 percent year over year. Shipments of their Blackberry phones are down 21 percent...
Apple’s iPhone passes RIM’s BlackBerry sales in Canada for the first time ever
The tide is turning in Canada, and the country’s RIM faithful are starting to leave behind their local grown BlackBerry in favour of the iPhone....
4G smartphone customers unhappy with poor battery life
Add another point to Apple’s “This Is Why We Do Things Our Way” board. J.D. Power & Associates reports that owners of first-gen 4G smartphones...