RIM offers free apps, support following outages

IDG News Service – Following last week’s major service disruptions, Research in Motion is offering free applications and support as compensation, the company said Monday. RIM said it will give away applications worth $100 to consumers and offer enterprise customers one month of free support to help make up for the problems. “As an expression …

BlackBerry PlayBook 16GB placed on the “to be discontinued” list

BlackBerry PlayBook 16GB placed on the “to be discontinued” list At last count RIM reported BlackBerry PlayBook shipments reached 700,000 in 6 months. this number is certainly not up to par with all the other tablets that saturated the market in the last year, but RIM always stated the PlayBook is the “world’s first professional-grade …

RIM Earnings: It’s Just The Beginning

Its current business is imploding. The less said about it the better. BlackBerry is the world’s best horse-and-buggy in a Model T world: it’s the best e-mail device in a world where other functionalities like full-web browsing and apps are more important than e-mail, even and increasingly for corporate users, and smartphones are invading the …