Danger hangs on RIM
By fall, start-up Danger Research hopes that consumers will be using its handhelds with a tiny keyboard similar to RIM's BlackBerry pager.
By fall, start-up Danger Research hopes that consumers will be using its handhelds with a tiny keyboard similar to RIM's BlackBerry pager.
As the iconic BlackBerry goes from strength to strength in subscriber numbers, so do the threats to the device and the business model.Would you want to be the head of RIM right now?
Company wants to make accessing e-mail, popular instant-messaging programs on a cell phone as easy as it is on a BlackBerry.
RIM identified the problem that caused Monday’s blackout, yesterday, but how IT will respond is still an open question.Rim reported yesterday that an early investigation pointed to a problem with an upgrade of a data routing system.
commentary Here's a quick quiz: name three smartphones that put mobile e-mail atop their roster of features.We're betting that your list included the BlackBerry at least once if not twice -- citing the conventional 8700 series and the more consumer-friendly 8800 Pearl, Palm's Treo, the Samsung BlackJack and/or Motorola Q.
The target for Nokia's 2007 business mobility strategy isn't the BlackBerry -- it's the millions of inboxes and corporate foot soldiers ignored by the push e-mail revolution.
Despite being a class-A CrackBerry addict, Barack Obama will likely be forced to go cold turkey from email when he takes office, The Times' Jeff Zeleney reports.In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas.
International wireless solutions manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) believes the days of disconnected PDAs are gone.The makers of Blackberry solution said that users' information is changing too rapidly for disconnected PDAs, (PDAs that do not attach to PCs wirelessly), to catch up.
I've just been sent a copy of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion stock analyst Mike Abramsky's brand new, quite detailed analysis on RIM.There's plenty to chew on in this RBC Capital Markets report.
However, it will take more than just this phone to revive the iconic phone maker.