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New BlackBerries arriving soon on AT&T: Bold 9900, Torch 9860 come on Nov 6th, Curve 9360 – Nov 20th
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Waiting for those new BlackBerries arriving on AT&T? After they've arrived on Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile, the wait will soon be over for AT&T as well. The nation's second-biggest carrier will get three new BlackBerries riding its 4G HSPA+ network:
- the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9900 has its release date set for November 6th,
- RIM BlackBerry Torch 9860 coming November 6th,
- RIM BlackBerry Curve 9360 on November 20th.
The classical Bold 9900 is arriving this Sunday carrying a price tag of $199.99 when purchased with a two-year contract agreement. The screen-centric Torch 9860 is even more affordable and is getting released on the same date. Finally, the Curve 9360 is the last one to arrive and...
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RIM Facility Helps India Monitor Messages, Email
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Research in Motion has set up a small facility in India to help the government lawfully monitor some of the encrypted data that travels over its servers.
Citing “people familiar with the matter,” a Wall Street Journal report said the facility has satisfied an ongoing disagreement between RIM and the Indian government for the time being, but officials still want more access to BlackBerry email and instant messages.
Last year, the government threatened to shut down RIM’s services completely in the country if RIM did not offer a solution to let it intercept messages on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and BlackBerry Internet Service email. The government gave RIM several deadlines to come up with a s...
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Will RIM's Buy Two, Get One Free Offer Boost PlayBook Sales?
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Research in Motion seems to be trying everything to entice people to buy its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. In hopes of driving sales, BlackBerry business customers who buy two PlayBooks from an authorized reseller will get one free from now until December 31, BGR first reported.
RIM will also give customers who purchase two PlayBooks one free accessory for each device. They can choose from a black leather sleeve, a charging pad, or an six-foot HDMI cable if they join in the promotion.
The company has struggled to sell the PlayBook, and the floundering tablet took another hit this week when RIM announced that it will delay the launch of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 until February 2012. Until...
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How would you change RIM's BlackBerry Bold 9930?
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There's no QNX (or BBX, we should say) here, but the Bold 9930 is still taking baby steps towards the future with BlackBerry OS 7. Now that you've had a few months to tinker with your latest and greatest, we're interested to hear how you'd tweak things if given the keys to Waterloo. Would you make it look a bit more like this? Change up the screen? Toss that chrome ring around the edge? Chunk it to another carrier? Go on and get creative in comments below, but keep it civil, cool?
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RIM quietly loses cloud service exec Jim Tobin
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BlackBerry maker RIM has parted ways with yet another executive, this time with senior executive Jim Tobin, the company quietly confirmed Thursday. The departure was never officially announced, and the senior VP for software and business services left the company months ago, RIM told Reuters. He was charged with developing cloud-based services and reported directly to co-CEO Jim Balsillie.
Tobin's LinkedIn profile still shows him being a RIM employee, and RIM hasn't revealed the reasons behind Tobin's departure.
Tobin's work involved allowing enterprise customers to use servers hosted by RIM rather than on-site computers to handle e-mail and other corporate data. He also worked on a team tha...
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Angry consumers start class action suit against RIM over outage
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Earlier this month the network behind the popular Blackberry messaging service was out for days leaving users of Blackberry smartphones with no access to email, IM, and web surfing. RIM admitted at the time it had no idea what was causing the outage, but hacking was not the cause. After the service came back, RIM tried to soothe angry customers with free apps.
Free apps may have made some users feel better about the long outage, but for others free apps weren’t the answer. Reuters reports that RIM has now been hit with a class action suit over the extended outage. The suit was filed Wednesday against RIM in a court in Santa Ana, California. The suit was filed on behalf of all Blackberry user...
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BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Curve 9360 MasterCard PayPass approved
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The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 are the world's first SIM-based NFC smartphones to be MasterCard PayPass approved, Research in Motion has announced.
What this means is that the devices have met the financial giant's guidelines and, as such, any MasterCard PayPass-issuing bank will now be able to offer MasterCardPayPass-enabled accounts to the SIM card of these smartphones.
Basically this will turn your BlackBerry into a mobile wallet, in much the same way that the Samsung Wave 578 offers NFC action with Orange and Barclaycard.
"MasterCard is proud to be the first to certify these popular BlackBerry smartphones for mobile payments, and offer consumers another simple, ea...
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RIM confirms PlayBook OS 2.0 delayed until February, still no BBM in sight
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Well, we hope you weren't expecting to have PlayBook 2.0 up and running on your BlackBerry tablet any time soon, cause it's been officially delayed till at least February. Word has come straight from the mouth (well, keyboard) of David Smith, senior vice president for the PlayBook project. In a blog post Smith announced that RIM would be holding back on the release to ensure many of the new features, including native email and enterprise app deployment, work as advertised. The OS update will be getting a decently long beta test, with it rolling out to some in the Early Adopter Program "shortly." Sadly, it seems that some features have fallen by the wayside with the focus on polish -- namely,...
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BlackBerry Bold 9790 makes appearance with new button layout
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The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is due for a launch sooner than later, if RIM’s latest blog posts are any indication, but some fresh pictures are showing us that the hardware layout may have significantly changed from what we had seen since the phone made its first appearance five months ago.
The navigation keys in the middle are no longer a seamless part of the front face, but instead look a lot like the Torch 9850 / 60. Yeah, it doesn’t look as good, but the tactile feedback can certainly be helpful when fiddling in the dark. The 9790 will also have the same slim, smooth, and sharp side convenience key style as the Torch 9850 / 60. The microUSB port has also been moved from the side to the bottom...
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iPhone 4S launch drives record number of BlackBerry trade-ins
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Gazelle, a website that specializes in buying, selling and recycling gadgets, said on Tuesday that BlackBerry trade-ins recently reached an all-time high. Speaking with CNET, Gazelle chief gadget officer Anthony Scarsella said his company saw a “spike” after Research in Motion’s recent BlackBerry service outage, which spanned three days in some areas, but that Apple’s latest iPhone is mostly to blame for the surge. “In the grand scheme of BlackBerry [trade-in] growth over the past month, it can be pretty much entirely attributed to the launch of the iPhone 4S,” Scarsella explained. Additionally, Android trade-ins jumped 72% during the past month, the majority from Sprint customers, although ...
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RIM releases BBM SDK for WebWorks, injects some chatting flavor into your apps
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This year's BlackBerry DevCon might have come and gone with nary a mention of BBM's flagrant promiscuity, but RIM did give us some other BBM news. The Canuck company's BBM Social Platform SDK is now up for general availability after recently hitting version 1.0. The release extends its venerable messaging protocol to WebWorks developers, allowing their wares to initiate chats and incorporate BBM statuses, avatars and personal messages from the service. Also on the docket is "application-to-application background communication," which we presume enables a smorgasbord of behind the scenes cross-application chattiness. Finally, Crackberry developers will be able to start file transfers over the...
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Class-action suit filed against RIM after BlackBerry outage
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BlackBerry users have filed a class-action lawsuit against Research In Motion after the company’s massive service outage earlier this month, the Financial Post reported on Wednesday. The suit was officially filed by the Consumer Law Group in the Quebec Superior Court “on behalf of individuals who have BlackBerry smartphones and who pay for a monthly data plan but were unable to access their email, BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM), and/or Internet for the period of October 11 to 14, 2011.” It specifically focuses on “RIM’s failure to take action to either directly compensate BlackBerry users or to indirectly compensate BlackBerry users by arranging for wireless service providers to refunds ...
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RIM acquires online services company NewBay
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Research In Motion has announced that it has acquired NewBay, a company that provides messaging, social networking, and cloud storage products to handset manufacturers and carriers. RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog says "NewBay's LifeCache platform helps enable operators and device makers to deliver content across multiple, connected devices such as mobile phones, PCs and tablets." The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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Late to the party, AT&T to launch BlackBerry Bold 9900 on November 6th
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Whatever happened to tradition? After all, it was AT&T that helped RIM step up and become a more relevant smartphone manufacturer with the launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9000 in 2008. The shape and size of the device had many becoming fans at first touch. And of course, the physical QWERTY on that phone is one of the best ever to be melded onto a handset. We can still remember the ads AT&T was running proclaiming it the fastest 'Berry ever with a 624MHz processor under the hood (compared to the single-core 1.2GHz processor in the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930).
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RIM Announces The BBX Platform, The Future Of BlackBerry
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Mike Lazaridis, CEO of Research in Motion, “The whole company is aligning behind this single vision. It combines the best of QNX and Blackberry.” Meet BBX.
BBX is the future of RIM. Dan Dodge, president of QNX, joined Mike Lazaridis and proudly co-announced BBX. This platform incorporates enterprise, NOC and cloud services into one system that can run on smartphones, tablets and embedded systems. As Lazaridis stated, BBX is about bringing together “people, devices, content, and services.”
RIM and QNX built BBX to be secure. The platform is IEEE POSIX certified and conforms to EAL4+ and IEC 61508 Safety (SIL3) standards. The POSIX cert should allow for easy porting of Linux/Unix apps while pr...
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