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RIM claims PlayBook’s battery life at least equal to iPad’s

Published on: 3rd February, 2011

RIM has persisted in defending the BlackBerry PlayBook against doubt over the battery life of the tablet. Jeff McDowell, senior vice president for business and platform marketing at RIM, stated that the PlayBook’s battery life would be at least equal to that of the iPad with smaller battery size. He suggests that analysts’ scepticism related [...]

Judge dismisses Kodak’s patent complaint against RIM and Apple

Published on: 30th January, 2011

Kodak has received a major blow to its hopes after the international Trade Commission has rejected its patent complaints against Apple and Research in Motion. Judge Luckern rejected the complaint related to the patent in question, for low resolution moving previews, as being too obvious a version of an earlier patent and not being usable [...]

BlackBerry still has 69 percent of business, iPhone intruding

Published on: 26th January, 2011

RIM’s BlackBerry still holds a comfortable majority lead with respect to the corporate space but seems to lose ground to Apple’s iPhone at smaller shops. Although the BlackBerry still has 69 percent of all businesses in the United States, its share dropped significantly outside of big companies. RIM dominates enterprises with more than 1,000 staffers, [...]

RIM will censor porn content on BlackBerry to comply with Indonesian laws

Published on: 26th January, 2011

Research in Motion faces another ultimatum coming from a government related to the use of BlackBerry’s services. The Indonesian government threatens to shut down its browsing service if pornographic Internet content is not filtered properly. RIM has agreed to the request of Indonesian officials who have also requested that the smartphone maker opens a local [...]

In 2007, RIM did not believe the iPhone was possible

Published on: 30th December, 2010

There was a complete panic at RIM in 2007, when Apple unveiled the iPhone, said a former employee. The producer of the BlackBerry has held several meetings no the 10th of January 2007, a day after Apple’s smartphone was on stage, making eccentric claims about the iPhone’s features. There were accusations of lying against Apple [...]

PlayBook versus iPad video posted by RIM, demonstrates Flash slowdowns

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Research in Motion has recently posted a video pitting its BlackBerry PlayBook against Apple’s iPad in a browsing test. The newer dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor of its tablet gave it an edge when loading most of the pages and especially those mainly dependent on JavaScript as well as more complex code, such as the ACID3 [...]

India cancels threat of ban on BlackBerry with conditions

Published on: 3rd November, 2010

The federal home ministry of India recently said that his country would avoid a service ban for BlackBerry phones after Research in Motion had developed a provisory arrangement to make possible for the Indian government to spy on messages. The lift of the threat arrived after RIM promised that India could intercept conversations on BlackBerry [...]

Apple is the world’s fourth largest phone maker

Published on: 1st November, 2010

According to IDC, Apple is now the fourth largest manufacturer of any kind of phones. Doubling to 14.1 million iPhones has pushed it to 4.1 percent of the whole market, ahead of the BlackBerry of Research in Motion and other long established producers of phones like Sony Ericsson and Motorola, both of them being now [...]

iPhone jumps over BlackBerry for second place in smartphones

Published on: 31st October, 2010

The 14.1 million iPhones sold by Apple made it jump over the BlackBerry’s market share, as Strategy Analytics say. The total of 77.1 million smartphones shipped in the summer helped the iPhone to leap to 18.3 percent of the whole market and pushed Research in Motion down to third place, with 12.1 million phones and [...]

BlackBerry application launched on Rhapsody, iOS application updated

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

An application for the BlackBerry operating system platform has been launched on the online music streaming Rhapsody service. The application is in beta version and can be downloaded by users having BlackBerry handsets equipped with at least the version 5.0 of their operating system. Curve users are able to control the operation of the application [...]

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