12 result(s) displayed for RIM (1 - 12 of 12):

New iPhone the BlackBerry Killer?

Although the CNet blog builds a pretty good case for why the new iPhone will replace RIM's BlackBerry as the mobile phone of choice in the business market, me thinks it boils down to three little letters why not...

Posted on June 10, 2008 2:06 PM

Scheduled Blackberry RIM Outage

Word on the street is that there will be a 4-5 hour outage of all RIM servers tonight. The outage is expected to start at 11pm PST for upgrades to the BIS servers. While I commend RIM for upgrading their...

Posted on March 28, 2008 2:36 PM

RIM Garners 10% of Smartphone Market

According to ABI Research, Research In Motion (RIM) is likely to end 2007 with around 10% share of the smartphone market. In terms of device shipments, RIM will be the second largest smartphone vendor in 2007, after Nokia. RIM’s share...

Posted on December 20, 2007 9:43 AM

NTP Says 'Hands Up' Palm

Not too surprising to see that NTP, the same company that got a bunch of millions from Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the oh-so-popular Blackberry, is now going after Palm in the same manner. The Blackberry story was hot...

Posted on November 8, 2006 1:33 PM

RIM (Blackberry) out of the frying pan and into the...

We all know that RIM, makers of the popular Blackberry has settled with NTP. Betcha thought the war was over, right?  Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't...

Posted on May 1, 2006 2:25 PM

Anybody Using Any Blackberry 'Killers'?

Now that RIM's Blackberry is back from the dead (no more lawsuit), it will take a true competitor to kill it off, not a patent infringement case.We have lots of fun with market leaders and wait and see what happens...

Posted on March 22, 2006 5:47 PM

Doing the Blackberry Limbo

Unless you don't hear or read any news at all, you've heard about the lawsuit between Research in Motion (RIM), better known as the maker of the Blackberry, and NTP (which you probably never heard of).NTP is suing RIM for infringing its...

Posted on March 2, 2006 10:44 PM

Microsoft killed the Blackberry Star

First there was IBM's OS/2 and then came Microsoft Windows 95/98 and OS/2 was no more. In the battle for the most used wordprocessor, Wordperfect put up a valiant fight but alas, Microsoft Office took over - same with Lotus...

Posted on February 13, 2006 8:56 AM

GMail + Google Talk (GTalk) for BlackBerry RIM

A friend of mine who runs Computer Collector Newsletter forwarded me a link to a software application that runs on the Blackberry RIM to access GMail. I looked around the rest of the site and came across an even better...

Posted on December 19, 2005 12:37 PM

BlackBerry maker RIM's shares halted after patent ruling

According to MarketWatch, Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIMM) request to suspend proceedings of its ongoing patent dispute with NTP Inc., pending the BlackBerry maker's request for a U.S. Supreme Court review, was denied, according to an NTP press release, the...

Posted on October 21, 2005 1:00 PM

Blackberry Connect on the Palm Treo 650

Palm and Research In Motion (RIM) are working together to bring BlackBerry Connect to the Palm Treo 650 smartphone. Wow, I wonder how long before BlackBerry offers BlackBerry Connect to their arch rival, Microsoft? That is to say, I wonder...

Posted on October 17, 2005 11:05 AM

Nokia E60, E61, and E70 launch

Nokia has launched a series of keyboard-enabled phones that have the "look and feel" of the popular BlackBerry devices. The Nokia E60, Nokia E61, and Nokia E70 are Nokia's first keyboard phones that have obviously borrowed a page from Research...

Posted on October 12, 2005 1:25 PM