BlackBerry PlayBook gets new Facebook application

NEXT - 24 Jun, 2011
Following the success of the Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones application, Research In Motion (RIM) has announced Facebook for BlackBerry PlayBook, a new application that delivers popular features of Facebook, optimised for the 7" high resolution, ...

Ringing In The New: Research in Motion makes competition tougher for ...

Economic Times - 24 Jun, 2011
It is a rainy Monday morning and Frenny Bawa, MD-India, Research in Motion (RIM) - the company known primarily for its BlackBerry range of smartphones - waits, along with a small team from RIM, to meet this correspondent at the Grand Hyatt hotel in ...

RIM PlayBook Holds Security Edge Even as IPad Wows U.S. Troops

Bloomberg - Traci McMillan, Melissa Aparicio - 24 Jun, 2011
An employee demonstrates a Research In Motion (RIM) Blackberry PlayBook tablet device at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. Photographer: Denis Doyle/Bloomberg ...

RIM bosses lose billionaire status

Financial Post - 24 Jun, 2011
Research In Motion Ltd. co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis (L) and Jim Balsillie have seen their individual net worth drop steadily in recent years Shareholders of Research In Motion Ltd. have taken a beating over the past few months, though none worse ...

Enterprises warming up to tablet PCs

Business Standard - Priyanka Joshi - 24 Jun, 2011
Among his 25-member workforce, Ahmedabad-based Faisal Farooqui also employs four MBA graduates to manage his spices export business. “I just got five Apple iPads for my managers (the MBA graduates) and one for me to keep an updated account of the ...

RIM's Balsillie and Lazaridis lose their billionaire status

CTV.ca - 24 Jun, 2011
These are stories Report on Business is following Thursday, June 23. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have been knocked out of the ranks of ...

Investment Expansion Affirmed By Jabil's Sales

Bloomberg - Anna-Louise Jackson, Anthony Feld - 24 Jun, 2011
A circuit board is inspected during the de-masking process at the Jabil Circuit Inc. facility in St. Petersburg, Florida. Photographer: Jim Stem/Bloomberg June 22 (Bloomberg) ...

Why RIM has reason to be optimistic

National Post (registration) - 24 Jun, 2011
Sports reporters will tell you it's important not to draw conclusions about a team when it's on an extended winning streak or mired in the worst slump of the season. The lesson is that it's easy to jump to conclusions, and that professional sports ...

Jabil Circuit shares rise after 3Q report

BusinessWeek - 24 Jun, 2011
Shares of Jabil Circuit Inc., which makes electronics parts, climbed Wednesday after it reported results for the quarter that ended May 31. THE SPARK: The St. Petersburg, Fla., company reported earnings that doubled from a year ago, yet provided a ...

iPad 2 or PlayBook: which tablet is better?

Reuters India (blog) - 24 Jun, 2011
Now that the BlackBerry PlayBook has been rolled out in India, are you still thinking of buying the revamped Apple tablet? Customers now have the option to buy the PlayBook, which features Wi-Fi support, with 16, 32 or 64 GB of memory and the models ...

RIM launches BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in India

IBNLive.com - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎
New Delhi: BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) Wednesday launched its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in India (Read the review). "BlackBerry PlayBook comes in an ultra-portable design and features industry-leading performance with real-time ...

A PlayBook, but the BlackBerry tablet means business

Indian Express - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎
It was only a matter of time before we finally had an enterprise-friendly tablet and it is no surprise that it has come from Research In Motion, the company which finds its captive user base in the business community. The BlackBerry PlayBook, which was ...

PlayBook debuts; RIM eyes BlackBerry converts

Economic Times - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎
MUMBAI: Maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), de-buted its PlayBook tablet in India hoping to woo converts from its user base that till recently consisted of CEOs and corporate honchos with bulge-bracket salaries. ...

Where is the Kindle app for the PlayBook?

ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎
RIM's PlayBook has been out for a while now, yet there is still no Kindle app available. One has to wonder if Amazon is rethinking that release given the expected appearance of its own tablet soon. ...

PlayBook has same security features as BlackBerry

Livemint - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎
Frenny Bawa, managing director-India, Research In Motion Ltd, spoke in an interview about the launch of BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in the country, priced at `27990 for the 16GB model. Edited excerpts: How many units of PlayBook are you hoping to sell ...

BlackBerry Playbook debuts in India

Times of India - ‎Jun 22, 2011‎
BlackBerry PlayBook displays an ultra-portable design and weighs a pound. It boasts a 7" screen and a 1 GHz dual-core processor. It runs on the new BlackBerry Tablet Operating System (OS). The device also features multitasking dual high-definition (HD) ...

Vodafone bundles PlayBook with BlackBerry

Delimiter - 24 Jun, 2011
National mobile carrier Vodafone has released a limited amount of information about how it will price Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook, noting the device will be available bundled on a single monthly plan with the BlackBerry Bold 9780 handset ...

Vodafone Outlines Playbook Postpaid Bundles

Lifehacker Australia - Angus Kidman - 24 Jun, 2011
The BlackBerry PlayBook went on sale outright this week with prices starting from $579, but some people prefer to buy devices on contract. Vodafone is the first local cab off the rank here, offering a number ...

Vodafone Bridges BlackBerry Bold & PlayBook In Bundle

Smart Office - Matthew Lentini - 24 Jun, 2011
Vodafone will be bringing the BlackBerry PlayBook and the Bold 9780 smartphone together in a monthly package when the Research In Motion tablet is released next week. With many early reviews pointing to the ...

BlackBerry PlayBook in India now!

Black Friday Deals - Sayani Pradhan - 24 Jun, 2011
Mumbai- Research In Motion has officially launched the BlackBerry PlayBook in the Indian market. Reports say that Ingram Micro and Redington India will distribute this tablet all across India. These tablets will initially be ...

16 Year Old Shares Vision of Future BlackBerry OS Concept

BerryReview - Ronen Halevy - 24 Jun, 2011
Luis pointed out a thread in our forums where Bongs shared some really slick concept designs of his vision for BlackBerry and what he calls OS8. The designs are really slick and go right along with the eye candy ...

RIM Co-CEOs No Longer Billionaires With Declining Stock Price [Mike Lazaridis ...

TFTS (blog) - Kevin Schram - 24 Jun, 2011
RIM's two Co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis & Jim Balsillie, are no longer billionaries after RIM's declining stock price puts their net worth below $800 million each. Does this mean that BlackBerry and the BlackBerry PlayBook has failed and RIM headed out of ...

Forbes: If RIM co-CEOs didn't give millions to charity they'd still be ...

MobileSyrup.com - Ian Hardy - 24 Jun, 2011
In March RIM co-CEOs were ranked by Forbes as two of the “World's Billionaire's”, in total there were 1210 billionaire's. Mike Lazaridis came in at #651 with $1.9 billion and Jim Balsillie took ...

RIM Cuts BlackBerry PlayBook Sales Forecast To Less Than Half the Initial Estimate

PDF Devices - Monica Samuel - 24 Jun, 2011
The sale performance of BlackBerry PlayBook has been much below RIM's estimates since its release in mid April. The QNX tablet saw ambitious first day sales, selling 40000-50000 units, but that didn't last. ...

Why it's not the end for RIM

Sync (blog) - Marc Saltzman - 24 Jun, 2011
We've all read the “stock crash” headlines, heard the rumours of a Microsoft takeover and seen Jim Balsillie not handling TV interviews very well, but that doesn't mean this is the beginning of the end for RIM. ...

Could Buyers Begin Circling RIM?

TechnoBuffalo - Sean P. Aune - 24 Jun, 2011
There is no doubt that RIM (Research In Motion) is in trouble. After the lackluster first quarter financial report issued last week, stock in the company plummeted 21 percent to five year lows. However, the stock regained 10 percent the following day ...

RIM Could Be Bought on the Cheap

Channel Partners - Josh Long - 24 Jun, 2011
The enormous loss in Research in Motion's market value is good news for potential acquirers. Bloomberg earlier this week calculated that an acquirer could pay a 50 percent premium and still purchase the BlackBerry maker for a lower multiple than any ...

RIM Releases Version 2.1 Of BlackBerry WebWorks SDK For The BlackBerry ...

BlackBerry Rocks! - 24 Jun, 2011
RIM today announced and released a new version of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook's Tablet OS. With the new APIs in this version developers can create WebWorks applications that deliver a richer, more interactive end-user ...

Hostile takeover would prove difficult

The Beacon Herald - Norman De Bono - 24 Jun, 2011
A hostile takeover of Research In Motion would prove difficult because many of its shares are held by RIM workers -- including 10% by its chief executives -- says one long-time observer of the technology giant. ...

Research in... Play? Suitors May Start Circling Struggling RIM

Fox Business - Matt Egan - 24 Jun, 2011
It's hard to believe just three years ago Research in Motion (RIMM) was worth a whopping $80 billion, making it Canada's most lucrative public company. After falling badly behind the curve in the newly consumer-oriented smartphone market, ...

 

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