BlackBerry maker's area developer unit to fill gap

Release Date 21 Oct, 2011 in San Francisco Chronicle

 
   

RIM Runs Into Trademark Dispute Over BBX Name for Future OS

PCWorld - John Ribeiro - 21 Oct, 2011
Less than a week after it announced plans for a new platform called BBX for its smartphones and tablet, Research In Motion is facing the threat of legal action from a software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ...

RIM's operating system BBX in patent trouble

Firstpost - 21 Oct, 2011
BBX, the operating system that Research In Motion is counting on to revive its floundering BlackBerry franchise, has run into trouble even before the company could install the system in its smartphone line. A New Mexico firm claims the “BBX” name is ...

BlackBerry maker accused of infringing BBX trademark

Reuters India - Pav Jordan, Alastair Sharp - 21 Oct, 2011
Get the latest news on the go. Visit Reuters India on your mobile device. Full Coverage One Indian man has 39 wives and 94 children. Slideshow Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, announces BBX, during BlackBerry's DevCon at the ...

RIM Courts Silicon Valley App Developers With New 'Evangelists'

San Francisco Chronicle - 21 Oct, 2011
Jobs Threatened 'Thermonuclear War' on Google: AP Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd., losing ground in a market that its BlackBerry smartphone helped to build, is adding developer "evangelists" in Silicon Valley to change perceptions about ...

RIM's BBX name already taken

ZDNet Asia - Kevin Kwang - 21 Oct, 2011
A small New Mexico, US, company claims that RIM is courting customer "confusion" over its own "BBx" software. Research in Motion's (RIM) new BBX operating system isn't even out yet, ...

Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" Name

Slashdot - 21 Oct, 2011
AZA43 writes "As if its latest BlackBerry service outage--the worst in company history--and the mass exodus of BlackBerry users to iOS and Android weren't bad enough, RIM is now facing a potential trademark lawsuit over the name of its next generation ...

RIM faces possible legal fight over BBX label

The Australian - 21 Oct, 2011
RESEARCH In Motion faces possible legal action to prevent it from using the name BBX for its new operating system, after only unveiling the platform earlier this week. The beleaguered smartphone maker introduced the new operating system this week at ...

BlackBerry maker's area developer unit to fill gap

San Francisco Chronicle - Hugo Miller - 21 Oct, 2011
Jobs Threatened 'Thermonuclear War' on Google: AP Research In Motion Ltd., losing ground in a market that its BlackBerry smart phone helped to build, is adding developer "evangelists" in Silicon Valley to change perceptions about the company's ...

RIM's latest misstep: Its new BBX name is already taken

CNET (blog) - Roger Cheng - 21 Oct, 2011
Research in Motion's new BBX operating system isn't even out yet, and it's already facing a bit of legal heat. A small Albuquerque, NM-based software provider, Basis International, ...

RIM Hit With Legal Challenge Over BBX Name

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 21 Oct, 2011
Research in Motion can't catch a break. After the lackluster release of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and a massive three-day outage, the company is now facing a trademark challenge over its recently introduced BBX platform. ...

BlackBerry's Indian Curve-ball

Forbes - Anirvan Ghosh - 21 Oct, 2011
A few months after she joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, Ayesha Rachel became an addict. She just couldn't get enough of her BlackBerry Curve. "I was a Nokia user but this thing is addictive, and no other phone gives me this value for my ...

BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone launched Singapore

AsiaOne - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry Curve 9360, which features the new BlackBerry 7 operating system (OS), is now available in Singapore from authorised BlackBerry partners. The new BlackBerry Curve smartphone is ergonomically ...

101 - BlackBerry service

FM.co.za - Larry Claasen - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Though users are happy to have their BalckBerry services back, there are still more questions than answers. The crisis was caused by a failure in its primary switching system in Canada. By the time its backup systems were activated, the build-up of ...

BlackBerry fans eager to solve RIM's problems

Reuters - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Oct. 19 - Dedicated BlackBerry fan Julien Dias jumped out of an airplane to prove his love for the smartphone and, alongside his iPhone-weilding sidekick, now hopes to document the device's ability to keep families connected across the world. ...

BlackBerry hitches leave users without vital Internet services

Business Daily Africa - Wangui Maina - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
BlackBerry Bold phones: Digital media is the fastest growing platform for reaching consumers. Photo/Fredrick Onyango By WANGUI MAINA (email the author) Sanjeev Gadhia admits that he is addicted to his BlackBerry Torch. The managing director of Astral ...

RIM runs into trademark dispute over BBX name for future OS

Good Gear Guide - 21 Oct, 2011
Less than a week after it announced plans for a new platform called BBX for its smartphones and tablet, Research In Motion is facing the threat of legal action from a software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that claims that BBx is the trademark of ...

Firm Tells RIM Not to Use BBX Name for Upcoming OS

International Business Times AU - 21 Oct, 2011
The name of Research in Motion's (RIM) upcoming operating system, BBX, is taken and a New Mexico company using BBx prefix to its products has sent a notice to the BlackBerry maker not to use it to avoid confusing the public. Research In Motion CEO Mike ...

RIM sued for trademark infringement for BBX OS

Afterdawn.com - Rich Fiscus - 21 Oct, 2011
A New Mexico software company is suing Research In Motion for trademark infringement over the name of their new mobile OS. BASIS International develops and sells a programming language called BBx. BBX is also the name chosen for the new RIM OS which ...

BlackBerry Losing Sway in Enterprise, Study Finds

CIO India - Brad Reed - 21 Oct, 2011
Enterprise users, who have long been RIM's firewall against theiPhone and Android devices, are increasingly jumping ship. A new survey released by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) today found that 30 percent of BlackBerry users in enterprises of ...

Recovering from BlackBerry crash? 7 really cool chat apps

Rediff - Gourav Jain - 21 Oct, 2011
BlackBerry Messenger popularly known as BBM have become hot news quite through out the year. A recent news which confirmed fall of RIM BBM services left users limited to making calls ans sending and receiving SMS messages. I think one of the lessons to ...

Research in Motion Denies BBX Infringement Claims, Doesn't Know What All the ...

Gizmodo - 21 Oct, 2011
After numerous public gaffes, RIM is banking on BBX, its newest platform, to help drag the company back into respectability. Unfortunately, the "BBX" name itself could be infringing on a New Mexican software maker's trademarks. ...

Will RIM actually change things for the better with BBX?

PhoneDog (blog) - 21 Oct, 2011
Consider me surprised. I know that it has been a whole two days since Research In Motion officially unveiled BBX, but my mind is still reeling. While BBX isn't necessarily a surprise to anyone who's been watching RIM's movements in the market, ...

RIM announces BBX platform

Blackberry News - 21 Oct, 2011
Research In Motion has unveiled its next-generation mobile platform, officially named BBX, which looks set to combine BlackBerry OS 7 and QNX. The platform was announced at BlackBerry DevCom, and will power RIM's future smartphones and tablet devices, ...

More Headaches For RIM, As Trademark Complaint Could Be Filed Against BBX

MocoNews - 21 Oct, 2011
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) just can't catch a break these days. As we start to wind down a year in which the company's US market share has plunged amid investor turmoil and an unprecedented three-day outage in its service, its new BBX operating ...

TS2R Wirleess News: 1Million AT&T iPhone 4S, Siri Takes Orders, Smartphone ...

Wireless and Mobile News - 21 Oct, 2011
AT&T announced it activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S' as of Tuesday, making it the most successful iPhone launch in the company's history. The voice of Siri has spoken and she's open to break-ins. Even if an iPhone 4S is locked with a password, ...

Enterprises Join BlackBerry Exodus

Vision 2 Mobile - Craig Galbraith - 21 Oct, 2011
Market-share reports over the past year have shown that smartphone users are leaving BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion for the iPhone and alternatives from Android manufacturers. But a new study shows the enterprise space, long a safe haven for RIM, ...

More Ambiguity At RIM As Apple Continues To Eat Its Lunch

Seeking Alpha - Rocco Pendola - 21 Oct, 2011
The ambiguity started earlier this year at Research In Motion (RIMM) as the company set its shareholders and unassuming longs up for a monumental fall. Consider what I wrote back in June about how company management, particularly co-CEO Jim Balsillie, ...

Blackberry BBM failure resolved

xmediaonline - Exeposé - Hannah Mawdsley - 21 Oct, 2011
Normal service has resumed for Blackberry users after last week's problems with the service which lasted over three days. The outage occurred at 11am on Monday, 10th October and still wasn't fully resolved by Thursday, 13 October. ...

77% of BlackBerry users missed BBM the most during outages

Shiny Shiny - 21 Oct, 2011
By beccacaddy on October 20, 2011 Comments (1) It's now common knowledge that last week RIM's BlackBerry handsets experienced a LOT of problems, including loss of access to email and the internet and no BBM services. The company came under fire for not ...

UK Retailer Slashes BlackBerry PlayBook by £150

IBTimes - Alistair Charlton - 21 Oct, 2011
Alarm bells should be ringing yet again at BlackBerry, as a major high street store has slashed the price of the PlayBook tablet by £150. Currys and PC World have reduced the low end 16GB model of ...

 

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