Buy one Blackberry Playbook, get two free

Release Date 31 Oct, 2011 in Inquirer

 
   

Buy one Blackberry Playbook, get two free

Inquirer - 31 Oct, 2011
CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS OUTFIT Research in Motion (RIM) is really trying to push sales of its Playbook tablet and the latest move from its marketing department is to offer business buyers two free devices for every one that they buy. ...

Desperate RIM in buy two PlayBooks, get one free offer

Register - 31 Oct, 2011
RIM has resorted to giving away its little-fondled BlackBerry PlayBook as part of a promo to drive sales to biz customers stateside. In a deal usually reserved for commodity items in supermarkets, ...

RIM Facility Helps India Monitor Messages, Email

PC Magazine - 31 Oct, 2011
Research in Motion has set up a small facility in India to help the government lawfully monitor some of the encrypted data that travels over its servers. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” a Wall Street Journal report said the ...

BlackBerry Playbook 2.0 delayed, no new Messenger app

Christian Science Monitor - ‎Oct 29, 2011‎
BlackBerry Playbook delay in operating system is likely to anger users already peeved by recent outages at RIM. New BlackBerry Playbook update won't include BlackBerry Messenger app. By Sean Ludwig, VentureBeat / October 29, 2011 Mike Lazaridis, ...

BlackBerry users sue RIM

Victoria Times Colonist - ‎Oct 29, 2011‎
Consumers in Canada and the United States have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the ...

RIM loses another exec

Victoria Times Colonist - ‎Oct 29, 2011‎
Research In Motion Ltd.'s government affairs chief has left the BlackBerry smartphone maker, adding to the number of recent departures as the company struggles to stop market share losses. Robert Crow left the company this past summer, RIM spokeswoman ...

BlackBerry's Mumbai unit to police calls

Times of India - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
MUMBAI: Research In Motion has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The RIM gave India access to its ...

RIM announces BlackBerry Business Cloud services for Microsoft Office 365

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research In Motion (RIM) has recently announced BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 " a new RIM-hosted online service for midsized businesses and enterprises that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones. ...

Lay off Research In Motion

Globe and Mail - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
For Jim Balsillie, this has been a bitter year. Research In Motion's share price has been sawed into bits; he was knocked off Forbes's billionaires ranking; some shareholders have called for him to give up a portion of his power to new management; ...

RIM promo: Buy two Playbooks, get one free

CNET (blog) - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Nope, the PlayBook hasn't been selling well at all. But perhaps the latest round of promotions will do the trick. Maybe one PlayBook wasn't enough to get you interested in Research In ...

BlackBerry PlayBook Sale: RIM Offers Buy Two, Get One Free Deal

Huffington Post - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
If you were thinking of buying more than one BlackBerry PlayBook, then today is your lucky day. RIM has announced a Buy Two, Get One Free offer on its poorly-selling PlayBook tablets, from now through the end of 2011, so long as you buy through one of ...

RIM's PlayBook: Buy Two, Get One Free

PCWorld (blog) - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Customers who buy two BlackBerry PlayBooks will get a third one free, in what one analyst says is an effort by Research In Motion to boost flagging sales. The offer is valid until Dec. 31 from authorized resellers, ...

Will RIM's Buy Two, Get One Free Offer Boost PlayBook Sales?

PC Magazine - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research in Motion seems to be trying everything to entice people to buy its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. In hopes of driving sales, BlackBerry business customers who buy two PlayBooks from an authorized reseller will get one free from ...

RIM relents to India demands, sets up local surveillance outpost

National Post (registration) - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research In Motion Ltd. has at least partially relented to the Indian government's demand for access to the company's secure BlackBerry network, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the US newspaper said RIM ...

RIM Offers 'Buy Two, Get One Free' Deal for BlackBerry PlayBook Tablets

TIME - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research in Motion's tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, has been overshadowed of late, which may be the reason behind the company's latest promotion: Buy two PlayBook tablets, get one free. ...

RIM's New Pitch: Free Blackberry Tablets

Fox News - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
To boost sagging sales, RIM has come out with a new offier: free BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. Research In Motion this week revealed a limited-time offer that aims to bolster sales of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to enterprise ...

RIM backdoor access for Indian probers

Register - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
RIM has opened a monitoring centre in Mumbai to help the Indian government sip data from Blackberry users there, said the Wall Street Journal today, quoting unnamed sources. The Canadian firm opened the small ...

BlackBerry maker 'sets up surveillance facility' in Mumbai

Hindu Business Line - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research In Motion (RIM) is said to have setup a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services. Media reports have suggested that RIM gave Indian authorities' access to its messenger services ...

Motorola, RIM Struggle To Sell Tablets

InformationWeek - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Motorola's latest quarterly numbers show it shipped a meager number of its Xoom tablet. RIM, on the other hand, stoops to a buy-two-get-one-free offer to spur PlayBook sales. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Motorola's Xoom, the first Android 3.0 ...

RIM Loses Another Executive as Government Chief Departs

BusinessWeek - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd.'s government affairs chief has left the BlackBerry smartphone maker, adding to the number of recent executive departures as the company struggles to stop market share losses. ...

BlackBerry PlayBook buy 2, get 1 free sale

Vancouver Sun (blog) - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook seems headed for the bargain bin with a buy-two-get-one-free sale that comes in the wake of news that the PlayBook's software upgrade will be delayed until February. “From now until Dec. ...

RIM aiding India with wiretaps, report says

CNET - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research In Motion is providing the Indian government with some information on BlackBerry users, as long as the company deems it appropriate, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Citing anonymous sources ...

BlackBerry 'puts monitoring centre' in India

AFP - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
MUMBAI " Research In Motion (RIM) has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government conduct surveillance checks on the company's BlackBerry services, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday. The financial daily quoted unnamed people familiar ...

RIM has Mumbai surveillance facility, reports say

ZDNet UK (blog) - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Research In Motion set up a surveillance centre in India earlier this year to help law enforcement officials there tap into people's BlackBerry messages, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal quoted ...

RIM sets up a Blackberry surveillance base in India

Inquirer - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS FIRM Research in Motion (RIM) is helping the Indian government set up a surveillance base to keep track of its Blackberry communications services. A report at the Wall Street Journal says that the base will be used ...

RIM parts ways with another top manager

IBNLive.com - ‎Oct 28, 2011‎
Toronto: Research In Motion has parted ways with a senior executive involved with the company's move into "cloud-based" services, adding to a string of high-level departures from the BlackBerry maker. Jim Tobin, senior vice-president for software and ...

RIM sets up facility in India to help with surveillance: Report

Economic Times - ‎Oct 27, 2011‎
Research In Motion has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services. RIM gave India access to its consumer services, including its Messenger services, in January this year after ...

RIM sets up surveillance facility in Mumbai

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Oct 27, 2011‎
After many months of back and forth between BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion and the Indian government, RIM has set up a facility in Mumbai to assist with the legal surveillance of encrypted BlackBerry communication. The Indian government has ...

RIM delays Playbook software update

ZDNet Asia - ‎Oct 27, 2011‎
Canadian phonemaker postpones software upgrade of its tablet to next February, leading one analyst to say delay "not a good sign" and device has no future. Canadian phonemaker Research in ...

A glimpse into the future from Microsoft and (maybe) RIM

Financial Post - ‎Oct 27, 2011‎
Predicting what the next generation of technology will look like is something on which multibillion-dollar companies are based. In the first video embedded below, Microsoft Corp. provides its vision of the world five to 10 years from now. ...

 

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