First Free BlackBerry App Now Available

Release Date ‎Oct 19, 2011‎ in PC Magazine

 
   
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Oh, RIM. Can Nothing Go Right?

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Shira Ovide - ‎Oct 20, 2011‎
RIM's market value has shriveled to less than $12 billion, from more than $80 billion a few years ago. The company has taken longer than everyone wants to push out smartphones with a refreshed operating system. ...

Research In Motion releases first free BlackBerry app to compensate for outage

CanadianBusiness.com - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
By The Canadian Press | October 19, 2011 WATERLOO, Ont. - Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) has released the first of a number of free BlackBerry apps intended to compensate its users for a widespread service outage last week. The iSpeech DriveSafe.ly Pro ...

BlackBerry maker tries to soothe angry customers

Houston Chronicle - Rob Gillies, Peter Svensson - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2010 file photo, a Research In Motion Blackberry is displayed at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. Trying to make amends for massive outages last week, Research In Motion announced Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, ...

RIM releases 1st free app to compensate for outage

CTV.ca - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion delivers the keynote address at the Blackberry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP / Eric Risberg) WATERLOO, Ont. â€" Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) has released the first of ...

RIM Addresses BlackBerry Outage, Offers $100 of Free Apps

PCWorld - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Disappointed BlackBerry users heard from Research In Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis at the start of BlackBerry's developer conference in San Francisco. Lazaridis offered a quick, apologetic reference to the service outage that customers ...

RIM Apologizes for Recent BlackBerry Outages with Free Apps

PCWorld - Brennon Slattery - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Research in Motion extended an apology for last week's multi-continent BlackBerry outages last by offering free premium apps and one month of free technical support for its enterprise customers. While free technical support ...

Gloomy Outlook for Future of BlackBerry

PCWorld - Tony Bradley - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
RIM has suffered a number of setbacks, and its brand reputation and market share have been rapidly eroding. According to a new survey from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), that trend is going to continue--and possibly ...

Your guide to the free BlackBerry apps

CanadianBusiness.com (blog) - Matt Lundy - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
It seems as if Research in Motion faces a new Herculean challenge with each passing week. Given their most recent debacle, when millions of BlackBerry users worldwide suffered service outages last week, it appears their ...

RIM's BBX Is Just a Pipe Dream

PCWorld - Tony Bradley - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
RIM announced BBX to the world at a developers conference this week. BBX will be the new flagship operating system for RIM, merging the BlackBerry 7 smartphone OS with the QNX OS that powers the PlayBook tablets to create a ...

RIM, iOS, Android: Which App Platform Should Enterprise Mobile Developers Choose?

ZDNet (blog) - Eric Lai - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
One thing that struck me while listening to an SAP webinar on our new mobile HR apps (registration required) was how many of the apps still ran on BlackBerries. For sure, all six of the apps run iOS. ...

RIM unleashes first free app to compensate for outage

Globe and Mail - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Research In Motion RIM-T has released the first of a number of free BlackBerry apps intended to compensate its users for a widespread service outage last week. The iSpeech DriveSafe.ly Pro was available for download on the BlackBerry app store as of ...

RIM offers free App downloads to Indian subscribers

The Hindu - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Research in Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry, has extended its offer for free download of a selection of premium applications worth $100 to subscribers in India. The offer, an expression of appreciation for patience of the subscribers during recent ...

First Free BlackBerry App Now Available

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
In the wake of a three-day outage, Research in Motion promised its BlackBerry customers access to premium apps free of charge, and the company today released the first of those apps: iSpeech DriveSafe.ly Pro. ...

RIM lifts skirt, flashes 'new' OS at devs

Register - Bill Ray - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
The PlayBook will get push email and BBM support just as soon as the BlackBerrys get QNX, which has been rebranded BBX to make it seem shiny and new. BBX, announced yesterday at BlackBerry DevCon, ...

BBX operating system for BlackBerry arrives

ZDNet UK - Simon Bisson - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has unveiled its next-generation mobile operating system, BBX, which will provide a single platform for application development on a range of devices. ...

BlackBerry maker tries to soothe angry customers

eTaiwan News - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
AP The maker of the struggling BlackBerry tried to soothe tens of millions of frustrated customers Monday, offering more than $100 worth of free software to each one and giving some a month of technical support as compensation for last week's massive ...

Time for RIM to step up with better Blackberry freebies

ZDNet Asia - Roger Cheng - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
commentary A few games and productivity apps aren't going mollify anger over the outage. But early phone upgrades and giveaways might. commentary Research in Motion, is that really all ...

RIM Unveils an Upgrade, but Little Else

New York Times - Ian Austen - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
Mike Lazaridis, RIM's co-chief executive, delivered an address at a meeting for software developers in San Francisco Tuesday. By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA â€" Research in Motion unveiled little more than a rebranding of what it called its “next generation ...

RIM, Blackberry, and The Outage That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Wired News - Robert McMillan - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
The last thing Research in Motion wants to talk about is this month's disastrous service outage. Well, except for the iPhone. Speaking at a BlackBerry's annual developer conference on Tuesday, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis devoted a ...

BlackBerry BBX OS: What it really is

CNET - Jessica Dolcourt - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
This morning when RIM announced BBX, the next-generation operating system that will power BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, the BlackBerry-maker offered few details about what the OS ...

BlackBerry offers its angry users $100 in free apps

Reuters - Lucas Shaw - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Disgruntled BlackBerry users take heart -- you can choose among $100 worth of free apps to soothe your raw nerves following last week's service outage. With users still irate about last week's service outages, ...

BlackBerry freebies

Hindustan Times - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
BlackBerry makers Research in Motion (RIM) tried on Tuesday to soothe angry customers across the world, including India, by offering them more than $100 (Rs 4800) worth of applications and a month of free technical support as compensation for last ...

RIM Unveils BBX Software Upgrade For Blackberry Phones, Tablets

Fox News - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, announces BBX, during BlackBerry's DevCon at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco, California, October 18, 2011. Research In Motion will introduce souped-up operating software for its ...

RIM blew it: No BlackBerry PlayBook, phones today

CNET - Jessica Dolcourt - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
RIM blew a chance to re-energize developers and BlackBerry consumers by announcing new smartphones and tablets at its annual BlackBerry Developers Conference today in San Francisco. ...

BlackBerry sorry, here's Bejeweled

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
BlackBerry is really, really sorry that, you know, you couldn't do anything last week. The worldwide system suffered major outage. For three days in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, a day and a half in Latin America and Canada, and one day in ...

Blackberry and RIM: Too important to fail

Hamilton Spectator - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
We have developed a love-hate relationship with technology. We rely on our electronic tethers to keep us abreast of what's happening in our world. Yet we deeply resent those tethers, often because we cannot force ourselves to untether when we should. ...

RIM might compensate operators

Inquirer - Dave Neal - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS FIRM Research in Motion (RIM) is considering compensating the operators that were the first line of defence when its services went down for four days earlier this month. When services went down for Blackberry users ...

Investors unexcited by RIM's free app offer

Montreal Gazette - ‎Oct 17, 2011‎
An offer of free games, translation software or other apps to compensate BlackBerry users for last week's prolonged outage left Research In Motion investors cool on Monday, and the shares fell almost six per cent. RIM declined to say if it would need ...

RIM CEO Considers Operator Compensation to Restore Trust

San Francisco Chronicle - Jonathan Browning - ‎Oct 17, 2011‎
Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Research in Motion Ltd. will this week consider offering compensation to network operators following one of its worst BlackBerry service disruptions, co- Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie said today. ...

RIM Offers Free Apps in Apology

New York Times - Ian Austen - ‎Oct 17, 2011‎
BlackBerry users will soon be able to find out at no cost if there are $100 worth of apps that interest them. By way of apology for a service collapse that left millions of BlackBerry users around the world without service for up to three ...

 

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