RIM Chief Information Officer Robin Bienfait took some time to answer a few Enterprise-related questions for the Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog. There are plenty of questions that Enterprise customers are looking to have answered, and Robin did a good job of clearing some things up. While she does reitterate some of what we've heard over and over (like how BlackBerry 10 is a while...
<a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/6411845/">Are you seeing an increased amount of spam on BlackBerry.net emails?</a> Looking around the CrackBerry Forums today, I found a few threads where folks mentioned an increased amount of spam on their BlackBerry.net email addresses. Of course, spam on emails has always...
Another day and another patent filed by Research in Motion. This time it is something quite bizarre. The word on the street is that the new patent uses a technology to detect the users emotion. How this will be achieved we are not entirely sure. An element of camera, screen sensors or even magic may well be involved. If the patent is granted could we see BlackBerry users having their...
RIM is continuing its BlackBerry Curve roll out and today has officially launched the Curve 9320 in Hong Kong. While the budget device may be overlooked by smartphone fans wanting a high end BlackBerry, the 9320 certainly has its place in the market. It is all about being affordable and appealing to not only existing BlackBerry Curve owners but also to those people upgrading to their...
Earlier this month Bla1ze passed along a story about a mother looking for a used BlackBerry smartphone on Kijiji for her daughter Claire's 13th birthday. The mother works in marketing, and passed along some suggestions for RIM, poking a bit of fun at teenagers and apps in general while doing so. Shortly after posting the story, the woman's ad quickly received over 20,000 hits, drawing...
Including why he took on the role, marketing BlackBerry 10 and more! Research In Motion's new Chief Marketing Officer has only been on the job for four weeks, but he has hit the ground running. As we learned from RIM's CEO Thorsten Heins, Frank Boulben has already presented his marketing plan for BlackBerry 10 to management and the board and everybody is excited for it. RIM has...
Earlier, Chris wrote about how the Baird Equity Research survey went wrong and now, Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations, Research In Motion has taken to the BlackBerry Developer Blog to address the report as well. In the very direct post from Alec, he states he was shocked to hear the information in the report because they really don't reflect that of reality. As man who is traveling...
Ok, so the folks at Baird Equity Research apparently did a study about developer sentiment on different platforms. AllThingsD has already written up another BlackBerry death certificate as a result of this survey. Whatever happened to questioning the quality of these surveys? I'm not going to try to pick apart this particular survey because I have no idea how it was conducted. But...
We have seen many a shake up in the recent couple of months as RIM implements its restructuring process. The latest change comes in the form of Ray Gillenwater who is was the managing director of RIM Australia. Gillenwater has left Research in Motion after just three months in the job. RIM have said today that Gillenwater has left to pursue other interests. He will be replaced by...
Back in May of this year, Nokia filed several patent infringement lawsuits against HTC, ViewSonic, and RIM. The press release from Nokia listed these patents as covering "dual function antennas, power management and multimode radios, as well as [---] software features including application stores, multitasking, navigation, conversational message display, dynamic menus, data encryption...