Tag: BlackBerry
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Happy Holidays from The Dads
Those in the know understand the draw of the East End of Long Island. The Hamptons, sitting on the South Fork of the island, are a group of hamlets, villages and towns lying along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a perpetual playground for the rich and famous, and for city dwellers who appreciate a…
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Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones
Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…
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Motorola PRO+ the Blackberry Killer! Err, wait a minute?!
Today Motorola announced the PRO+: a 4G Blackberry look-a-like with a touch screen and keyboard. I thought we had all pretty much agreed that Blackberry was going to languish in a painful death spiral, with BBX being it’s final, Shakespearian monologue. I didn’t think anyone would jump on the hey, if you want a blackberry but don’t…
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How BlackBerry Can Make It Up to Its Customers Comic – Still Not Good Enough
Seriously, the whole thing was handled pretty badly and it could not have happened at a worse time. Three whole days of outages, just as you biggest competitor to date is about to launch a phone that you can talk to, ask it questions and rely on it as a useful personal assistant. via AllThingsD.
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‘Bring your own device’ programs opening doors for iOS in the Enterprise
“You shouldn’t reject things that make employees more productive, and if those things happen to be consumer technologies, so be it,” said Ted Schadler, an analyst with Forrester Research. [..] Letting workers bring their iPhones and iPads to work can also save companies money. In some cases, employees pay for equipment themselves and seek tech…
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The BlackBerry PlayBook Might Fail, But Don’t Count Out RIM Yet
The outlook continues to be pretty grim for RIM and the PlayBook specifically. Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair believes that there is no “meaningful evidence” that RIM is poised to turn things around. “Last quarter RIM talked about shipping 500,000 units but did not speak of sell-through for obvious reasons,” the analyst wrote in a…
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Michael Geist on RIM’s Woes and The Canadian Telecom Policy
This is an excellent piece from one of Canada’s premier columnist on technology law issues and law professor at the University of Ottawa. this particular article takes up the argument that the Canadian Government should step in to assist RIM in order to avoid another “Nortel” disaster. We have already spoken up about this aid…
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Blackberry Market Share Continues to Nose Dive; Android, iOS Keeps Soaring
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS, for example, saw it’s market share drop precipitously from 28 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 11 percent in the second quarter of 2011. The resulting hit on the Blackberry Market share is remarkable but not very surprising considering the year they have had. I curious to see…
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Smartphone Messenger Apps Compared
A very interesting comparison on various new messenger apps for smartphone: Facebook Messenger, Google+ Huddle and Apple iOS iMessage. The only other important one missing from the list is BlackBerry’s BBM. GigaOm.
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Apple Store Opening 3km from RIM Waterloo Headquarters
Seriously, The new store is literally down the street from the RIM Campus where Mike and Jim have been trying to get QNX to fit into a BlackBerry or PlayBook device that actually works. What would be great is if the line-ups from the hopefully soon to be announced iPhone 5 manage to reach all…