Research In Motion has issued a couple of updates about the massive outage plaguing the BlackBerry service since the beginning of the week. According to an update by Robin Bienfait, Chief Information Officer, RIM, services in Canada and the US are slowly returning to normal: Email systems are operating and we are continuing to clear any backlogged messages. Support teams […]
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Kik Messenger returns to BlackBerry devices
Kik Messenger today returned to BlackBerry devices. After a 10 month absence due to legal issues with Research In Motion, Kik today announced the release of a new universal Java version for BlackBerry smartphones. This new version of Kik is crazy fast, beautiful and reliable – just like Kik on our other platforms. We think it’s easily the best cross-platform […]
Ongoing BlackBerry service issues affecting Canada and US
A BlackBerry outage affecting that has been plaguing users in parts of Europe and Asia is now spreading to Canada and the US. The latest update from RIM confirms that the issue which affects emails, texts and BBM messages continues into its third day and has spread even further: BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays […]
Research In Motion to exit tablet market? (Updated)
Citing anonymous sources at RIM’s manufacturing partner Quanta, Collins Stewart analyst John Vinh is indicating that Research In Motion may be considering exiting the tablet market after halting BlackBerry PlayBook production. In a research note, he writes: “While Quanta last week acknowledged that it had laid off a significant number of production workers from a factory focused on producing the […]
RIM BlackBerry Bold 9900 now available at Mobilicity (Updated)
Mobilicity today announced via Twitter that the BlackBerry Bold is now available: #TeamMobilicity today is the day you’ve been waiting for, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is now available @Mobilicity. ^TD As I write this, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 has not yet made it onto Mobilicity’s website. Update: Mobilicity has now announced pricing and confirmed that the Bold 9900 is now […]
The Rick Mercer Report on RIM and the BlackBerry
This week’s Rick Mercer Report tackles an important issue: RIM’s downturn and how it affects Canadians: I was in stitches when I saw this at the show’s taping this past Friday. Still funny the second and third time…
Quanta cuts RIM BlackBerry PlayBook production?
Research In Motion is reportedly slowing production of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet after reporting lower than anticipated sales. It had expected to ship between 400 and 600,000 units during its last fiscal quarter but only shipped 200,000. Some 1.5 million PlayBooks have been manufactured so far and cumulative shipments have only reached about 700,000 units, suggesting that RIM still has […]
Mobilicity to launch BlackBerry 9900 in early October?
Mobilicity has already confirmed that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is coming soon to the carrier but the exact launch date has remained a bit of a mystery. The carrier’s CEO, Dave Dobbin, promised via Twitter that it was only “weeks away.” Thanks to a tip and a hint today, it looks like the launch window has been narrowed down to […]