by Simon Hill, 4 months ago

It’s been a horrible couple of years for RIM. Job losses, open revolt from staff, service outages, poor software and hardware reviews. Something had to give and a change of leadership was inevitable. Even after…

by Andrew Grush, 9 months ago

RIM was once one of the great kings of the smartphone world. While there are parts of the world that are still very receptive to BlackBerry devices, its presence in many major markets has taken…

by Andrew Grush, 10 months ago

There is no denying that RIM is in trouble, even if RIM’s CEO wants to paint a different picture for investors and consumers alike. The delay of BlackBerry 10 means that current BlackBerry offerings are…

by Lucian Armasu, 10 months ago

According to IDC, Android and iOS now represent 85% of the 152 million smartphones sold in Q2 2012, globally. But while the iPhone kept growing in raw numbers, it couldn’t keep up with Android, and…

by Lucian Armasu, 10 months ago

RIM put itself in a terrible position in the market in the past couple of years, by not listening to all the signs that the market is shifting to touchscreen phones. Not only RIM still…

by Lucian Armasu, 10 months ago

According to Strategy Analytics‘ latest research, smartphone sales in the U.S. dropped by 5 million, down to 24 million in the 2nd quarter of the year.  The reasons for this sharp decline in smartphone sales…

by Lucian Armasu, 11 months ago

If you thought things are looking bad for RIM, they are about to get a whole lot worse. They’ve lost $518 million in the last quarter, and they are about to cut 5,000 jobs, or…

by Lucian Armasu, 1 year ago

Android is a great operating system (I’d say the best overall), and I can see myself using it for at least the next five years. It may even become a desktop solution, if Google takes…