Blackberry loses face after outageInquirer - Dave Neal - 21 Oct, 2011A STUDY by research organisation Yougov has found that the recent downtime that affected Research in Motion (RIM) and its Blackberry services has also affected the firm's public perception and done considerable damage to its brand. ... |
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BlackBerry maker accused of infringing BBX trademarkIBNLive.com - 21 Oct, 2011Toronto: 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" ... |
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RIM's BBX has all the logic PlayBook should have hadRegister - 21 Oct, 2011By Faultline • Get more from this author RIM is a frustrating company right now. The massive outages that affected BlackBerry email users on three continents last week may have been a miracle of bad timing, just after the iPhone launch, but they were ... |
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Digicel to reimburse BlackBerry users for service outageJamaica Observer - 21 Oct, 2011DIGICEL will be reimbursing BlackBerry users on its network whose services were interrupted during last week's massive outage of the smartphone device. "Following on from Research in Motion's (RIM's) unprecedented announcement that BlackBerry customers ... |
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RIM Runs Into Trademark Dispute Over BBX Name for Future OSPCWorld - John Ribeiro - 21 Oct, 2011Less 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, ... |
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BlackBerry maker accused of infringing BBX trademarkReuters India - Pav Jordan, Alastair Sharp - 21 Oct, 2011Get 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 ... |
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RIM Courts Silicon Valley App Developers With New 'Evangelists'San Francisco Chronicle - 21 Oct, 2011Jobs 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 ... |
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RIM's BBX name already takenZDNet Asia - Kevin Kwang - 21 Oct, 2011A 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, ... |
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Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" NameSlashdot - 21 Oct, 2011AZA43 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 ... |
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RIM faces possible legal fight over BBX labelThe Australian - 21 Oct, 2011RESEARCH 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 ... |
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BlackBerry maker's area developer unit to fill gapSan Francisco Chronicle - Hugo Miller - 21 Oct, 2011Research 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 prospects and promote a new operating system. ... |
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Etisalat Nigeria joins in compensation to BlackBerry customersVanguard - Prince Osuagwu - 21 Oct, 2011Etisalat Nigeria, yesterday, joined its counterparts, Airtel and MTN, to announce compensation to its BlackBerry customers . The company said the compensation will cover both the pre-paid and post paid users. ... |
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RIM's latest misstep: Its new BBX name is already takenCNET (blog) - Roger Cheng - 21 Oct, 2011Research 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, ... |
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RIM Hit With Legal Challenge Over BBX NamePC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 21 Oct, 2011Research 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. ... |
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BlackBerry's Indian Curve-ballForbes - Anirvan Ghosh - 21 Oct, 2011A 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 ... |
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BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone launched SingaporeAsiaOne - Oct 19, 2011Research 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 serviceFM.co.za - Larry Claasen - Oct 19, 2011Though 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 ... |
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BlackBerry fans eager to solve RIM's problemsReuters - Oct 19, 2011Oct. 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. ... |
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MTN okays compensation for BlackBerry usersVanguard - Prince Osuagwu - Oct 19, 2011MTN Nigeria yesterday, joined its counterpart Airtel Nigeria, to also announce compensation to its Blackberry users over the global outage of Blackberry services last week. MTN Nigeria, announced that it will compensate all customers ... |
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BlackBerry hitches leave users without vital Internet servicesBusiness Daily Africa - Wangui Maina - Oct 19, 2011BlackBerry 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 ... |
Blackberry Maker: "Outages Unfortunate"The Associated Press - Oct 18, 2011The co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion opened a conference in San Francisco by calling recent outages "unfortunate." BlackBerry has offered tens of millions of frustrated customers more than $100 worth of free software. (Oct. 18) |
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RIM faces trademark dispute over BBX nameTG Daily - Emma Woollacott - 21 Oct, 2011Just a couple of days after announcing its new BBX platform for smartphones and tablets, Research In Motion is facing a legal threat over the name. The new operating system combines RIM's QNX OS, currently used in the PlayBook tablet, with the existing ... |
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BlackBerry losing sway in businessCFO World UK - Brad Reed - 21 Oct, 2011Business users, who have long been RIM's firewall against the iPhone and Android devices, are increasingly jumping ship, a new study showed this week. A new survey released by Enterprise ... |
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BBX, BlackBerryâ??s latest purported saviourDaily Maverick - 21 Oct, 2011Research in Motion has recently announced a new direction for its smartphones and tablet devices that will place it closer to its rivals in terms of integration between the two. Much like the way Apple and Google operating systems work, the BlackBerry ... |
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RIM's new BBX faces name challengeMyBroadband - 21 Oct, 2011Derrick joined MyBroadband in 2011 as a junior journalist with a strong background in computer hardware and gaming. He is also regular columnist and hardware... Research in Motion (RIM) recently unveiled the new BBX platform, an operating system that ... |
It's a bummer to be a Blackberry userSquamish Chief - 21 Oct, 2011For one thing, Research In Motion (RIM) " the company behind the Blackberry " doesn't generate the same kind of tech buzz as its main competitor Apple when a new product is launched. I can comfortably wager that more people know the name of the latest ... |
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IT industry news: BlackBerry blackout 'will test fan base'Computeach - 21 Oct, 2011Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian-based maker of BlackBerry smartphones, will see who its hardcore customers are following last week's blackout, which left many across the world without its services for three days, according to Pete Cunningham, ... |
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Firm Tells RIM Not to Use BBX Name for Upcoming OSInternational Business Times AU - 21 Oct, 2011The 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 ... |
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RIM sued for trademark infringement for BBX OSAfterdawn.com - Rich Fiscus - 21 Oct, 2011A 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 FindsCIO India - Brad Reed - 21 Oct, 2011Enterprise 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 ... |
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