Computerworld - Research in Motion CIO Robin Bienfait's last name means "well done" in French. She's hoping those two words apply to BlackBerry 10 smartphones once they ship in the first quarter of 2013. "We're committed to our customers ...
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Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--MediaTek Inc.became the world's No.3 supplier of smartphone processors in the first half of this year mostly thanks to strong market for low-priced smartphones of mainland China,where the Taiwanese fabless company ...
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Research in Motion(RIM)will launch its upcoming mobile operating system(OS)–BlackBerry 10 or BB10–in January 2013. Rob Orr,RIM managing director UK and Ireland,let the date slip in an interview with Computer Weekly,but denied ...
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Google has added to its list of acquisitions with the$45m(£28m)purchase of Ukrainian company Viewdle,while at the same time closing a number of unpopular services that have failed to catch on. Viewdle is a developer of facial ...
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion(RIM)has posted another quarterly loss,but it was not as much as investors expected,with revenues coming in at 16%above analysts'forecasts. Despite reporting a net loss of$235m for the second ...
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Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry smartphone, has posted another quarterly loss. While it represents another blow to the struggling mobile device producer, the net loss of $235m for the second quarter isn't as ...
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Research In Motion's stock price jumped more than 6%Wednesday after CEO Thorsten Heins addressed developers and said,among other things,that BlackBerry subscriptions had climbed to 80 million,up from 78 million in the second quarter. ...
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RIM CEO Thorstein Heins Tuesday reassured some 1,500 developers at the BlackBerry Jam Americas conference that the company's BlackBerry10 smartphones are on track to launch in next year's first quarter. The opening of the event in San ...
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Research in Motion(RIM)CEO Thorsten Heins said that as many as 6%of BlackBerry customers in Europe and Africa may have seen up to a three-hour delay in getting and sending messages early Friday. Heins released a statement about 11:30 ...
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Apple's iPhone share of U.S.smartphone subscribers bumped upward 2 percentage points from May through July,giving it 33.4%of the market,online tracking and analytics firm comScore said Tuesday. The increase could be attributed to broad ...
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Chinese search engine firm Baidu has revealed it is to invest over 10 billion yuan (£1bn) in a new cloud computing centre. The company's CIO, Jennifer Li, made the announcement at the company's annual conference in Beijing, at the ...
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Chinese search engine firm Baidu has revealed it is to invest over 10 billion yuan (£1bn) in a new cloud computing centre. The company's CIO, Jennifer Li, made the announcement at the company's annual conference in Beijing, at the ...
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Samsung intends to fight Friday's landmark jury award of $1 billion to Apple over smartphone and tablet patent violations -- possibly for years. But while it fights on, Samsung and other cellphone makers are expected to make changes to ...
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BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled "beta" versions of its forthcoming smartphones to telecoms carriers. Perhaps aware that time is not on its side, RIM has gone on the offensive, touting its new range of phones ...
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Web usage by iPhone and iPad owners has grown by 35%in North American over the past year,while browsing with BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet has dropped by 25%. Those Web usage statistics,gathered by mobile ad network ...
Tags: BlackBerry smartphones, iPhone and iPad, PlayBook tablet, sales decline