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RIM's balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's core: RIM's Balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's coreLet's all try to standardize filesComputers are difficult enough.Every OS brand has different file names must be stopped.These files have the same exact function but somebody has given them a different name.You're smiling but I'm not.; Tags: Balsillie, Research In Motion Ltd., B2B; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
BlackBerry co-CEO on iPhone marketing: "a dangerous strategy": Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie tells the Toronto Star's Chris Sorensen that although he could see where some people would find the iPhone's look appealing, he doubts the iPhone will have much impact on BlackBerry sales.Balsillie, who admits that he has not seen the iPhone up close and personal...; Tags: Corporate Stuff, Carriers; Blog posts 2007-07-07
BlackBerry CEO: iPhone's helped us: Apparently following the "high tide lifts all boats" mantra, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion's co-CEO Jim Balsillie views the iPhone as a device that is focusing such attention on enhanced-featured mobile devices that BlackBerry is catching a kind of marketing contact high."I've said before they (Apple) did us a great favor...; Tags: Corporate Stuff; Blog posts 2007-07-03
BlackBerry to release converged cell-Wi-Fi device this year: BlackBerry-maker co-CEO Jim Balsillie told the JP Morgan Technology Conference on Wednesday that BlackBerry will release a converged cell-Wi-Fi device in the second half of this year.Computerworld's Nancy Gohring correctly notes that such a product would be fairly late to the game. That's because Motorola and Nokia already have...; Tags: News; Blog posts 2007-05-25
BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages: In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie (thats him) says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...; Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-05-14

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More on RIM's moat: Launches BlackBerry Bold; App developer fund: Business people can be hip too. That appears to be the message from Research in Motion and its motives behind its new BlackBerry Bold smartphone. There's definitely a hint of some iPhone envy here, but the device isn't a direct competitor. From the statement (Matthew Miller's take,...; Tags: Developer, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Partners Fund, Smart Phones, B2C, Handhelds, B2B, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
News to know: Vista troubleshooting, RIM, XP SP3, Apple, SAP: Notable headlines: XP SP3: Now on Windows Update Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools [See Gallery] David Morgenstern: Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.x too dark? Larry Dignan: Cisco third...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows Update, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-07
RIM's balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's core: The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire (all resources)...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., SAP AG, Wireless, B2C, B2B, Smart Phones, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-06
2009: The year of enterprise social networks: While some companies are trying to keep Facebook and MySpace out of the office, Research In Motion co-chief executive Jim Balsillie thinks that the social networking phenomenon is coming soon to an enterprise near you. "Once social networking becomes a B2B phenomenon--not unlike IM and texting--I believe every single social-networking...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Network, Forrester Research Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-14
Outages could rattle BlackBerry's iconic status: Outages could rattle BlackBerry's iconic statusOh please...People can't go for three hours without their BlackBerry's? I'm a BlackBerry addict myself...and even I found the outage to be refreshing.Even with 2 outages in one year, RIM should still be within 5 nines (99.999%) of uptime...which is far more than can...; Tags: Handhelds, Manufacturing, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., outage; Discussion threads 2008-02-13
RIM CEO implies touchscreen BlackBerry is possible: Last week, I made a post uncovering the a just-published BlackBerry Patent application for technology that would enable a touchscreen BlackBerry. Well, today at the Mobile World Congress, Jim Balsillie, the co-CEO of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion strongly implied that this could very well happen. ...; Tags: Touch Screen, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-12
RIM CEO: The Geeks Did It!: Reuters is reporting that the CEO of RIM is attributing the outage that hit North American email network to problem in a service upgrade: "At the core virtually all these things tend to happen on service upgrades," Balsillie said in an interview with Reuters at the...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Reuters Ltd., E-mail, Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-02-12
RIM: BlackBerry demand just swell; Earnings more than double: Research in Motion said Thursday that it added 1.65 million BlackBerry subscriber accounts for the third quarter ended Dec. 1 and shipped more than 3.9 million devices. That demand added up to RIM doubling its earnings. For the third quarter, RIM (all resources) reported earnings of $370 million, or...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-20
Here's my take on BlackBerry going forward: My colleague Larry Dignan has weighed in on key points made by Research In Motion executives during yesterday's Quarterly earnings call. I have been studying the transcript. I'd like to offer some of my own interpretations. Relying on a diligently assembled...; Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Unite, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-10-05
RIM: Unite, enterprise, prosumer market all promising: Research in Motion reported stellar second quarter earnings and highlighted a few areas: Software called Unite that can coordinate schedules for up to five people; enterprise gains amid Wi-Fi and wireless network roaming and prosumer hits such as the Pearl update. RIM reported an in line second quarter,...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Business, RIM BlackBerry, Unite, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-05
The three big takeaways from yesterday's BlackBerry email outage: Remember those early reports we broke (before anyone else, by the way), of BlackBerry email outages on T-Mobile? Well, as colleague Erica Ogg reports, those early outages were just the start of something far more widespread. BlackBerry users who are also customers...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, Outage, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-09-08
BlackBerry co-CEO is buying the NHL Nashville Predators: NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, Tennessee reports that the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators are being sold to BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion's co-CEO Jim Balsillie.The deal, which will involve current Predator's owner Craig Leipold, is now in the final paperwork stage.An amateur hockey player to this day, Balsillie had previously attempted...; Tags: Corporate Stuff, News; Blog posts 2007-05-23
A tale of two handheld players: RIM vs. Palm: This a tale of two well-known handheld device makers--Research in Motion and Palm--and their standing in the market. Both companies had investor powwows this week. Palm held an analyst meeting and RIM reported strong earnings.The biggest difference between the two? One, RIM, knows where its going and is...; Tags: Research In Motion, Personal Technology, Palm, Mobile, General; Blog posts 2007-04-13
Buzz builds early for RIM's Indigo: Its no secret that Research In Motions Pearl device is a big hit, but folks are already speculating on how the companys next "Indigo" and "Crimson" smartphones will fare. The Indigo and Crimson codenames are rumored to be different flavors of an upcoming BlackBerry 8800. These versions...; Tags: Microsoft Indigo, Research In Motion Ltd., Pearl; Blog posts 2006-12-22
Dead-Finger Tech: Sean says RIM's Pearl is the best ever but Bret has ideas for RIM: Shortly before having to turn my attention to personal business (after arriving in NYC today), I grabbed a cup of coffee with Sean Mills of Bite Public Relations (pictured left). He does PR for the Opteron folks at AMD and we talked a bit about performance-per-watt benchmarking which is going...; Tags: Dead Finger Tech, Wired &, Wireless, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General, RIM BlackBerry, Sean; Blog posts 2006-12-19