Normally around this time of year as we head into BlackBerry World, RIM would be preparing to meet with financial analysts to discuss RIM's strategy and performance over the past little while and what may be ahead in the months to come. BlackBerry World has always had a focus for that dating back to even before it was called BlackBerry World. This year though, RIM has gone ahead and decided to change course and delay those meetings until sometime after BlackBerry 10 has launched:

"We decided to make BlackBerry World more focused on customers, developers and partners," RIM spokeswoman Tenille Kennedy said on Tuesday. "We will hold a separate session targeted at the interests of the investment community later this year, once BlackBerry 10 is launched."

No date for the meetings has been announced; much like how no date for the actual launch of BlackBerry 10 has been announced either. The focus on consumers and developers is certainly appreciated however; how the financial analysts will take the news remains to be seen. Though, we're sure we'll be hearing from them as well shortly.

Source: Reuters

Thorsten Heins is now President and CEO of Research In Motion. The internal structure change alone is something investors have been calling for, but what that means exactly for Research In Motion in the long run remains to be seen.

Analysts have been weighing in on the change since the news broke and while the consensus thus far has been mixed, there is a general feeling that Thorsten Heins isn't exactly going to bring the needed changes to Research In Motion.

Many analysts see Research In Motion's change as a missed opportunity for the company to make some drastic moves at a time when they need it most, while Thorsten is under the belief that internal overhauls aren't needed. 

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To tablet or not to tablet... that is the question!

Alright, since the issue of the BlackBerry tablet seems to not be going away any time soon, we decided we'd summarize and share what information we know and what information is still left totally up in the air at this point. We certainly do not know all the details here, frankly no one does. Anyone outside of those involved directly with the project are basing information on pure speculation and that is it. Some of that speculation may be accurate, some of it may not. In fact, from what we gather the project's roots reach quite a way back so that many of the details we're hearig now have already likely changed (maybe many times over), so you really have to take anything anyone says with a BIG grain of salt. Yes, we're included in this statement.

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