The latest version of RIM's BlackBerry Music Gateway streaming device is now available to purchase. We were able to check out the tiny streamer when it was first announced at BlackBerry World 2012 back in April, and found it to be quite simple — there's no battery or display, you simply pair it...
Small and simple
Everything Everywhere, the joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, has announced its plans to invest £50 million to re-design its customer services with a focus on handset operating system support. Orange and T-Mobile customers...
As expected, RIM has released the latest PlayBook beta out for developers, version 2.1.0. The new enhancements are mainly in the Android runtime: Android apps will each now run in a separate window instead of a single one and RIM has opened up access to the camera as well as to in-app payments via the BlackBerry Payment SDK. Other features include portrait support for email, contacts, and...
According to The Globe and Mail, RIM is getting ready to axe at least 2,000 employees in "the next couple of weeks." The move would see the struggling company's workforce drop to about 14,500, and it comes after it has seen multiple high-level executives leave — including former co-CEO Jim Balsille. RIM also made a similar move in the summer of last year, when it laid off 2,000 employees alongside a shuffle of its executives. The Globe and Mail cites "several people close to the company" saying that the worldwide layoffs could come as soon as June 1st and will hit a broad spectrum of the company, including "senior positions in RIM's legal division to human resources, finance, sales and marketing." The news today comes after a poor Q4 earnings report in March that saw a 21 percent drop in smartphone shipments and news earlier this...
2,000 more employees may be gone come June 1st
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RIM's former executive vice president of global sales, Patrick Spence, resigned from the company earlier this week and is reportedly heading to Sonos. Reuters claims that Spence has been hired as Sonos' chief commercial officer, citing a source with knowledge of his plans. RIM originally revealed...
Rumors have swirled for years now that RIM was considering offering its BlackBerry Messenger software and service on other platforms. Today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting not only that those rumors had some merit, but that the plans have...
According to market research firm IDC, during the first quarter of 2012 more than 80 percent of smartphones ran either Android or iOS. Android was the clear leader accounting for 59 percent of devices — 45.4 percent of which were made by Samsung — while Apple came in...
