Investors dump BlackBerry as iMessage seen big threatEconomic Times - 8 Jun, 2011TORONTO: Apple's iMessage took its toll on the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday when its stock sank below $37 - the lowest level since 2007. iMessage announced by Apple on Monday will challenge RIM's highly popular BlackBerry ... |
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RIM Declines as Analysts See Apple's IMessage as New ThreatBloomberg - Hugo Miller - 8 Jun, 2011Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, fell to a 26-month low on the Nasdaq after Morgan Keegan & Co. downgraded the stock, citing a new threat from Apple Inc. (AAPL) to RIM's ... |
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Google widens smartphone lead over iPhone, BlackBerryNational Business Review - 8 Jun, 2011Click to zoom (Palm is now owned by HP; Symbian is Nokia's smartphone OS ... or at least it is until a new partnership with Microsoft produces new Nokia models based on the Windows Phone OS). The rising adoption of smartphones in the US has created a ... |
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WWDC 2011: iMessage sticks it to mobile carriersZDNet (blog) - Jason D. O'Grady - 8 Jun, 2011By Jason D. O'Grady | June 7, 2011, 9:42am PDT iMessage is completely carrier agnostic and since Apple controls the server â€" not AT&T, Verizon or any other carrier â€" it's completely free. Let's hope that Apple rolls it our for Lion as well. ... |
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Android Could Capture Half of Smartphone Market in 2011infoSync World - Sindre Lia - 8 Jun, 2011Android adoption is steadily growing and the OS could capture almost half of the US smartphone market in 2011. The choices for those who are considering a cheap, yet powerful, smartphone have never been better. ... |
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Apple unveils iMessage: Which cell phone would you buy?CBC.ca - 8 Jun, 2011By Community Team One of Research in Motion's most differentiating services for the BlackBerry smart phone was BlackBerry Messenger. Yesterday, Apple announced it is launching iMessage, a similar feature. It's an instant chat application that allows ... |
Apple duplicates many RIM servicesMontreal Gazette - Matt Hartley - 8 Jun, 2011Scott Forstall, Apple senior vice president of iOS software, introduces the mobile operating system iOS 5 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on June 6, ... |
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How the Carriers Can Fight iMessagePC Magazine - Sascha Segan - 8 Jun, 2011Apple works with AT&T and Verizon, but it isn't their friend. Case in point: iMessage in iOS 5, which isn't just a way to lock people into making their friends buy iPhones, it's a shot over the bow of the carriers' juicy SMS ... |
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RIM Looks Like An Also-Ran But Stock Still Has Good ValueForbes (blog) - 8 Jun, 2011Research in Motion has consistently lost market share in the US smartphone market for the last few months. According to a recent report from Comscore, RIM's US market share declined from around 30% in January 2011 to 26% in April 2011. ... |
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Wall Street sees Cult of Mac growing stronger, RIM reelingNational Post - Matt Hartley - 8 Jun, 2011Steve Jobs has given his legions of Mac faithful one less reason to think about turning in their iPhones for BlackBerrys, but don't expect fans of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Messenger to ditch their favourite messaging service overnight. ... |
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Apple bypasses carriers, trumps BlackBerry Messenger with free texting serviceThe Independent - 8 Jun, 2011Apple has unveiled a new messaging service that lets iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users send text messages, contact information, photos and videos to other iOS users for free, bypassing carriers' expensive texting plans and hitting rival smartphone ... |
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Will cell carriers allow iMessage?msnbc.com - Wilson Rothman - Jun 6, 2011iMessage may be my favorite feature of iOS 5. But so great is this push message service for iPhone, iPad and iPod, in fact, that I'm wondering if carriers will allow it. After all, it's a direct threat to their text messaging and ... |
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SURPRISE! Carriers Didn't Know iMessage Was Coming Until Today's Keynote (AAPL)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - Jun 6, 2011Apparently Apple didn't tell its carrier partners about iMessage, the new messaging system that could make SMS irrelevant. They found out at the same time as the rest of us: during today's WWDC keynote. That's according Jon Gruber, who dropped that ... |
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Apple Attacked Mobile Carriers Today, But Also Gave Them A Gift (AAPL, T, VZ, S)San Francisco Chronicle - Dan Frommer - Jun 6, 2011Apple announced a bunch of new iPhone features today during its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. How will they affect wireless carriers? Apple's new iMessage service is generally bad news for carriers, as it aims to replace overpriced, ... |
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Why Apple's 'iMessage' Repeats BlackBerry Messenger's MistakeTIME - Chris Gayomali - Jun 6, 2011At WWDC today, Apple unveiled its long-awaited iMessage â€" a real-time instant messaging service that's essentially its version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) â€" to polite clapping. Great news for iOS fans; ... |
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Apple Goes After RIM's BBM With iMessagePC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - Jun 6, 2011Among the various iOS 5 features Apple chief Steve Jobs unveiled today at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was iMessage, a messaging option for iOS devices reminiscent of RIM's BlackBerry Messenger. ... |
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An instant message to RIM: Heard about Apple's iMessage yet?CTV.ca - Jun 6, 2011These are stories Report on Business is following Monday, June 6. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. One of the most popular BlackBerry features is coming to Apple Inc. . ... |
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WWDC 2011: Apple takes other platforms' best services, makes them better with ...ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - Jun 6, 2011Apple revealed iOS 5 today and several of the top features are some of the best experiences from other platforms, made better, and rolled into one platform. Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 ... |
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Research in Motion's BlackBerry Messenger has big competitor in Apple's iMessageThe Canadian Press - Michael Oliveira - Jun 6, 2011TORONTO â€" Research in Motion's BlackBerry Messenger (TSX:RIM) will have to take on yet another competitor. And this time, the challenger is as big as they come. Apple announced Monday that it's soon launching iMessage for the iPhone, iPod touch and ... |
Sorry GroupMe, Apple's iMessage Is Out To Kill YouSan Francisco Chronicle - Alyson Shontell - Jun 6, 2011Steve Jobs just announced a new messaging service that could squash startups like GroupMe and Fast Society. iMessage is a new messaging service between all iOS customers. It will be released on iPhones, then on iPads and iPod Touches. ... |
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Apple Reveals iMessages, A Real Time Messaging Client For iOS Users (AAPL)San Francisco Chronicle - Ellis Hamburger - Jun 6, 2011At WWDC in San Francisco, Apple just announced iMessage, a brand new way for iOS users to communicate with each other. You will be able to send text messages, photos, video, contacts, group messages, and more. It's all encrypted over Wi-Fi or 3G, ... |
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Android grows in top US smartphone spot, with iPhone secondComputerworld - Matt Hamblen - Jun 6, 2011Computerworld - Google's Android continued as the top smartphone operating system in the US in comScore's latest ranking, while Apple's iPhone displaced the BlackBerry for second place. Android and iPhone devices both gained in ... |
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Rumor: iOS 5 to get group messaging, notifications overhaul?CNET (blog) - Jessica Dolcourt - Jun 6, 2011Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicks off this morning in San Francisco (join us at 10 am PT for the live blog). The usually tight-lipped Apple set expectations last week that among the announcements will be ... |
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Apple iMessage an unexpected shock to carriers: Goodbye SMS cash-cowSlashGear - 8 Jun, 2011It's not just RIM that Apple surprised with the new iMessage instant-messaging feature for iOS devices, announced during the Steve Jobs WWDC 2011 keynote yesterday. According to Daring Fireball's John Gruber, his sources say Apple's carrier partners ... |
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Did iOS 5 Copy Android, Windows Phone 7 & BlackBerry Features? [iOS 5 Brings ...TFTS (blog) - 8 Jun, 2011Apple's iOS 5 update already sparked various comments saying that Cupertino has started copying other mobile operating systems, but is that really so?... I'll begin this one by disclosing the fact that I do happen to use quite a few Apple devices, ... |
Will messages sent via iMessage use up my text messages?iPhone FAQ - 8 Jun, 2011iMessage messages are not sent via your wireless provider, whether it be Verizon, AT&T, Orange or any other provider. These messages are managed and delivered by Apple, and as such have no impact on your text (SMS) or multimedia (MMS) messaging plans ... |
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Why Apps, Not Apple, Are Killing BlackBerryMashable - Sarah Kessler - 8 Jun, 2011Apple just announced free cloud storage and a slew of cool new features for iOS 5. Google announced a tap and pay system for Android phones earlier this week. And what has RIM, the third major smartphone player, done for us lately? ... |
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Is Apple About to Annihilate SMS?Geek WIth Laptop - 8 Jun, 2011iMessages is a free new feature offered by iOS 5 which will enable users to chat via their Apple gadgets. Apple unveiled many new features of their upcoming iOS 5 during WWDC. The company will offer two hundred new features to its customers but as soon ... |
The last things missing from Apple's perfect cloud stormGigaOm - Darrell Etherington - 8 Jun, 2011iOS 5 and Lion are both great updates that are sure to please consumers, especially because they make it even easier to use computers without thinking too much about what goes on behind the ... |
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Walkthrough of Apple's iMessage in iOS 5Mac Rumors - Arnold Kim - 8 Jun, 2011One of the surprising new iOS 5 features announced during the WWDC 2011 keynote was the introduction of Apple's own messaging service called iMessage. The new service offers a number of advantages over current SMS/text messaging. ... |
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