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BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart phones to include high-speed HSDPA connectivity. RIM president Mike Lazaridis said: "The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smart phones and lives up to its...

Tags: rim, blackberry, 3g

[13 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation" partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company's applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smart phone. According to co-chief executive of RIM, Jim Balsillie, RIM is...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web

News Last month, BlackBerry-maker RIM announced more than a million downloads of a Facebook app for its smart phone in the five months since launch. The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK.

Tags: mobile internet, social networking, vodafone, facebook

[01 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News He added: "The bottom line in this horse race is Apple and [RIM] are both giant winners, while the rest of the smart phone manufacturers lose. He said in a statement: "According to our survey, both Apple and RIM are in the process of overwhelming...

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment Symbian, RIM and Nokia are the big incumbents. Yet it was an event that could make 2008 a significant milestone in the evolution of the mobile phone as a platform, says Seb Janacek. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Apple CEO...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

RIM-India: To meet again over security

News The Indian government will hold its next meeting with BlackBerry-maker RIM next week, a government official has said, as the two sides look for a way to meet India's security concerns. India's Ministry of Telecommunications has written to RIM...

Tags: email, blackberry, rim

[17 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News The voice-activation software is now available for download on a number of RIM's BlackBerry devices, and Yahoo! announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search...

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

RIM doubles quarter profits

News BlackBerry maker RIM has reported good fourth-quarter profits yesterday after the close of the stock market. Many of those phones were sold to new customers, as RIM added 2.8 million subscribers to the BlackBerry service during the quarter.

Tags: iphone, facebook, blackberry, rim

[03 Apr 2008]

Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits

News Speaking at the world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress - back in February, BlackBerry-maker RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie, said a B2B social networking revolution is on the way. And commenting on the number of Facebook...

Tags: facebook, blackberry, rim

[02 Apr 2008]

LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival

News The resulting fragmentation has limited Linux to lower-end mobile phones, with the higher-end smart phone development community largely organised around Symbian, Windows Mobile, RIM's BlackBerry and Apple's growing iPhone business.

Tags: android, google, linux, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

TCO Study: A Comparison of Blackberry and Microsoft Windows Mobile

whitepaper Wipro Study Shows Windows Mobile TCO 20-28% Lower than RIM: Wipro Technologies conducted a comparative lab-based study of mobile platforms by benchmarking the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack coupled with Exchange...

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[27 Mar 2008]

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...

News In addition, RIM exec Charmaine Eggberry gave her low down on the workplace - and how to switch off. This month, silicon.com has been busy wrestling with Android. Not manhandling tin men but exploring Google's new operating system for mobiles with...

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

[27 Mar 2008]

Apple iPhone 'ready for business'

News Whereas you might find that Microsoft and RIM might appeal directly to the IT organisation I don't think that's Apple's interest. The iPhone has taken another step towards the arms of the enterprise after analyst house Gartner announced it will now...

Tags: gartner, iphone, apple, analyst

[19 Mar 2008]

Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch

News Speaking to silicon.com recently, Charmaine Eggberry - VP EMEA of BlackBerry-maker RIM - pointed out that the device can be managed to minimise its intrusiveness. Is the mobile love affair over? The majority of Brits believe portable technology has...

Tags: work/life balance, blackberry, mobile, american

[19 Mar 2008]

Google crystal ball predicts mobile web boom

News Users of phones based on software from RIM, Nokia's Symbian-based phones and now Microsoft Windows Mobile can download the software from the Google website. Google has seen an acceleration of internet activity among mobile-phone users in recent...

Tags: mobile, microsoft, blackberry, google

[19 Mar 2008]

BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch

Comment Charmaine Eggberry is vice president and managing director of EMEA at RIM - a position that gives her responsibility for the company's growth targets in the region, expansion into new European markets, strategic partnerships and sales and...

Tags: women, rim, blackberry, population

[18 Mar 2008]

Don't forget to secure your BlackBerry, companies told

News But Scott Totzke, VP of global security at RIM, said while this demilitarised zone may work for some BlackBerry customers it is just one approach to securing the devices - stressing there is no "one-size-fits-all answer" to security.

Tags: blackberry, hacker, security, balance

[10 Mar 2008]

Photos: Behind the scenes at the iPhone SDK launch

Photo Among the stats he rattled off was one from Canalys for smart phone share in the US, which puts the iPhone in second place behind RIM's BlackBerry. Here are some photos from the official launch of Apple's iPhone software development kit.

Tags: iphone, apple, steve jobs, business

[07 Mar 2008]

Apple's iPhone opens its arms to business

News RIM currently dominates the business smart phone market with more than two-thirds of its 12 million customers coming from businesses and government. Large businesses bought in early to RIM's push email system, which requires large companies to have...

Tags: iphone, rim, email, blackberry

[07 Mar 2008]

Video: What will mobiles look like in five years?

Video Find out what Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford, Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski, RIM COO Don Morrison and Qualcomm European president Andrew Gilbert had to say on the future of mobile handsets. silicon.com reporter Natasha Lomas caught up with senior execs...

Tags: handset, mwc, mobile, ceo

[05 Mar 2008]

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