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Research In Motion launches 'Be Bold' campaign

Sat, 2012-02-04 14:37 - By

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Research in Motion has introduced a group of superhero characters called 'The Bold Team' as part of their new advertising campaign. The characters are Gogo Girl (the Achiever), Max Stone (the Adventurer), Justin Steele (the Advocate) and Trudy Foreal (the Authentic), all of whom appeared on the company's BlackBerry Blog last week. The campaign is all part of Blackberry's plan to 'reposition and fortify the image of the company in the minds of the users'.

RIM introduces the new BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone in Bahrain

Mon, 2012-01-23 07:59 - By

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Research In Motion has announced the launch of the new BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone in Bahrain. The powerful BlackBerry Bold 9790 features a compact design and offers users a fully loaded, high performance smartphone with the dual benefits of a high resolution touch display and a highly tactile keyboard.

BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Curve 9360 sim-based smartphones to receive MasterCard PayPass handset certification

Wed, 2011-10-26 18:56 - By

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Research In Motion today announced the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones are the first SIM-based NFC smartphones to be certified by MasterCard Worldwide as PayPass-approved devices.

The certification was granted on the basis of the BlackBerry smartphones

RIM unveils BlackBerry BBX to provide a next generation platform for BlackBerry Smartphones and Tablets

Thu, 2011-10-20 08:23 - By

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At BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011, Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled BlackBerry BBX, its next generation mobile platform that takes the best of the BlackBerry platform and the best of the QNXplatform to connect people, devices, content and services.

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Research in Motion offers free premium apps to customers following service interruptions

Tue, 2011-10-18 04:16 - By

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Research In Motion (RIM), announced that a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than US $100 will be offered free of charge to subscribers as an expression of appreciation for their patience during the recent service disruptions. The apps will be made available to customers over the coming weeks on BlackBerry App World, and will continue to be available until December 31, 2011.

“Our global network supports the communications needs of more than 70 million customers,” said RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. “We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers. We’ve worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we’re committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future.”

The complete selection of premium apps will become available to download at BlackBerry App World over a period of four weeks beginning Wednesday, October 19th. The selections over this period will include the following (with more to come):

• SIMS 3 - Electronic Arts

• Bejeweled - Electronic Arts

• N.O.V.A. - Gameloft

• Bubble Bash 2 - Gameloft

• Photo Editor Ultimate - Ice Cold Apps

• DriveSafe.ly Pro - iSpeech.org

• iSpeech Translator Pro - iSpeech.org

• Drive Safe.ly Enterprise - iSpeech.org

• Nobex Radio™ Premium - Nobex

• Shazam Encore - Shazam

• Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant - Vlingo

RIM’s enterprise customers will also be offered one month of free Technical Support. Current customers will be offered a complimentary one month extension of their existing Technical Support contract, and customers who do not currently have a Technical Support contract will be offered a one month trial of RIM’s BlackBerry Technical Support Services - Enhanced Support, free of charge.

“We are grateful to our loyal BlackBerry customers for their patience,” added Lazaridis. “We have apologized to our customers and we will work tirelessly to restore their confidence. We are taking immediate and aggressive steps to help prevent something like this from happening again.”

Etisalat & Du to offer 3 days of free service to UAE Blackberry users to compensate for service outage

Thu, 2011-10-13 05:29 - By

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Blackberry services are now back, but UAE telecom providers etisalat and du have already promised free service for UAE users equivalent to the time the service has been disrupted. Du and Etisalat have announced that they compensate Blackberry users with 3 days of free service.

Du has announced the details as follows:

Individual BlackBerry users: 3 days free service for all existing Blackberry subscribers as follows:

BlackBerry Social (Prepaid) = 1.5 x 3 days = Dh4.5
BlackBerry Social (Postpaid) = 1 x 3days = Dh3
Unlimited National BlackBerry service (Post and Pre) = 4.33 x 3 = Dh13
Unlimited international BlackBerry service (Post and Pre) = 8.66 x 3 = Dh26
The free credit will also be applicable for BlackBerry customers enjoying free BlackBerry service (under the 6 months offer).

Enterprise BlackBerry users:

3 days free service for all existing Blackberry subscribers – consumers and business. For both individual and enterprise customers, free credit will be added in the customers’ bills (for Postpaid) or in the More time balance account for prepaid users. Postpaid customers will receive the credit on their next bill, while Prepaid users will receive the credit within the next 3 days.

Etisalat said it was negotiating with Blackberry makers, Research in Motion (RIM) of Canada, regarding the package to be offered to the more than 500,000 Blackberry subscribers to make up for loss of services.

Compensation details: A three-day free usage to both pre-paid and post-paid customers, credited to the account of pre-paid customers within 24 hours, while for postpaid customers, this will be adjusted in their monthly bill.

Stockholders of at least 8% of Research in Motion call for company shake-up

Wed, 2011-10-12 00:14 - By

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Investment firm Jaguar Financial and some other shareholders owning at least 8% of Research in Motion are calling to oust the company's co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who both own 10% of the company, and potentially sell BlackBerry to the highest bidder. Since last October, Research in Motion’s shares have went down 50% to $24.10, and have slid 58% since the beginning of 2011.

Speaking to Reuters, Jaguar’s CEO Vic Alboini said that he’d like to see RIM sold off or, at the very least, split into separate public companies; a network company, a device company, and a patents company.

According to Bloomberg, none of RIM's "insiders" has bought shares on the open market since July 2010, instead, they have sold off stock "at least 11 times" during that period, signaling that they too might be worried about the company's future.

BlackBerry service blackout leaves millions of customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa cut off for hours

Mon, 2011-10-10 21:53 - By

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Millions of BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been affected by the continuing Blackberry outage, a major service blackout that left dozens of countries without BBM, email, and web access. According to CNN, Research in Motion is looking into the issue and will bring an update to its customers soon.

Twitter users were outraged, with 'My BlackBerry' becoming a trending topic.

Users are currently still experiencing problems - and BlackBerry has yet to say what time scale a resolution can be expected.

RIM unveils BlackBerry Tag - Coming soon to BlackBerry Smartphones

Mon, 2011-10-10 10:43 - By

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During his keynote presentation at the GITEX conference in Dubai, Research In Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie today unveiled a new way for BlackBerry smartphone users to connect with one another and share multimedia content.

Amazon releases Kindle Fire at lower price than rival tablets, but less features

Wed, 2011-09-28 18:59 - By

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Amazon has just recently unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet, a 7-inch display that runs on a heavily customized version of Google’s Android operating system, and weighs less than six ounces. The tablet is offered at a much cheaper price than Apple’s iPad, however, it lacks a camera and microphone, two features found in most rival tablets.

An estimate suggests that Amazon could be the first significant Apple competitor in the tablet market, selling 3 million to 5 million of its tablets this year.

Two versions of the tablet are available, one with sponsored ads, and another without, offered at a higher price.