Research in Motion

Here’s what we really think about Vic Alboini of Jaguar Financial and his crusade for change at RIM and the BlackBerry business

Vic Alboini (left) and CrackBerry Kevin at the Research In Motion AGM Note: This piece is being posted under my name (Kevin), but is a joint piece written by myself and Chris Umiastowski. To keep things simple, and since Chris and I agree on pretty much every major aspect of this piece, the wording "we" is used throughout instead of "I". Warning: This post is obviously longer than...

TAT founder leaves RIM to pursue other projects

Adam Zeis 7 years ago 61

TAT founder Hampus Jakobsson announced via Twitter that he is leaving RIM. Jakobsson has been a part of RIM since The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) was acquired back in December of 2010. TAT has been working hard on the BlackBerry 10 UI due out early next year and has contributed much to the upcoming OS. The TAT team at RIM is pretty much in place by now, so his departure shouldn't really...

RIM to continue layoffs, 3,000 exiting the company before the end of the second quarter

Jared DiPane 7 years ago 34

The news is not new, in fact we knew that RIM was letting go of employees for quite some time now, and it appears as though August may be the month in which the remaining 3,000 employees are actually let go. Cantech Letter has been informed by some sources that these employees may be departing from the company as early as August 13, which comes just two weeks before the end of Q2,...

Former RIM employee Mike Kirkup speaks about RIM, their current issues and what it all means to the Waterloo community

Bla1ze 7 years ago 29

Mike Kirkup, former Senior Director of Developer Relations at RIM has long since left the company and moved onto becoming the Director of Student Innovation at the University of Waterloo's Velocity program. As you can derive from the title, that means he's still involved within the Waterloo region and gets to see how RIM's current situation is impacting the area around him. Taking to...

RIM to Co-Sponsor 2012 Mobile Pwn2Own Contest

Michelle Haag 7 years ago 18

Research In Motion is co-sponsoring this year's Pwn2Own competition along with AT&T, HP DVLabs, and TippingPoint. The event, being held at the EUSecWest conference in Amsterdam on September 19th and 20th, will be the first Pwn2Own dedicated to the mobile attack surface. The primary goal is to demonstrate the current security posture of the most prevalent mobile technologies in use...

Steven Zipperstein selected as new Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Research In Motion

Adam Zeis 7 years ago 24

Steven E. Zipperstein is now serving as the newly appointed Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Research In Motion. Zipperstein joins RIM from his most recent position at Verizon, but he has also worked with other large companies in the past. He was placed at RIM by legal search firm Major, Lindsey & Africa. His role will include legal, compliance, communications and...

Does Prem Watsa know something we don’t about the future of RIM?

Chris Umiastowski 7 years ago 85

Yesterday there were a few stories written in the business media about how Prem Watsa of Fairfax Financial, nearly doubled its stake in RIM. Regulatory filings show that Fairfax is now a 9.9% shareholder in RIM, up from the mid 5% level previously. For those who don't know, Watsa also sits on the RIM board of directors. He joined the board in January of this year. He's been called...

RIM CIO Robin Bienfait talks BlackBerry Enterprise

Adam Zeis 7 years ago 9

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...

CrackBerry Poll: Are you seeing an increased amount of spam on BlackBerry.net emails?

Bla1ze 7 years ago 53

&lt;a href=&quot;http://polldaddy.com/poll/6411845/&quot;&gt;Are you seeing an increased amount of spam on BlackBerry.net emails?&lt;/a&gt; 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...

RIM applies for a emotion detecting patent

James Richardson 7 years ago 34

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...