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BlackBerry CEO unveils new smartphone

Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of Research in Motion, speaks at the company's Annual General Meeting, less than two weeks after announcing disappointing financial results, deep job cuts and the latest delay in its BlackBerry 10 software, in Waterloo, Ontario, on  July 10. AP

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry that is designed for emerging markets.

Posted: May 14th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Smartphones overtake ‘dumb’ phones worldwide

This is a Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 file photo of Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, as he introduces its newest smartphone, the Lumia 920, equipped with Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 in New York. Nokia continues to take a hammering in the smartphone market from rivals Samsung and Apple with sales for the handset maker falling by a quarter in the first quarter. Although the Finland-based company managed to reduce its first-quarter net loss to euro272 million ($357 million) from a loss of euro928 million a year earlier, mainly thanks to cost cutting, net revenue dropped by 25 percent to euro5.8 billion . Nokia's share price plunged 10 percent to 2.39 euros in Helsinki, following the announcement Thursday April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Research firm IDC said more smartphones than “dumb” phones are being made this year, a milestone in a shift that’s putting computing power and Internet access in millions of hands worldwide.

Posted: April 28th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

BlackBerry says report of high return rate ‘false’

The BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is displayed, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in New York. BlackBerry is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the Canadian company. AP FLE PHOTO

Smartphone maker BlackBerry on Friday slammed as “false and misleading” a brokerage research note which claimed consumers were returning the new Z10 handsets at a high rate.

Posted: April 12th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Blackberry makes a comeback

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Blackberry, the frontrunner of smartphones only six years ago, before it was dislodged by Apple and Android, makes a comeback with a redesigned look and user interface (UI) that’s finally attuned with the times.

Posted: March 31st, 2013 in Featured Gallery,Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »

RIM sells a million new BlackBerry 10 phones in 4Q

The BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is displayed in New York in January this year. Apple's iPhone is outdated, according to Research In Motion Ltd. chief executive Thorsten Heins. Heins made the comment Thursday, March 21, 2013, on the eve of the much-delayed launch of the new touchscreen BlackBerry in the United States. AT&T begins selling the Z10 on Friday, more than six weeks after RIM launched the devices elsewhere. (AP File Photo

Research In Motion Ltd. said Thursday that it sold about 1 million of its critically important new BlackBerry 10 devices and returned to profitability in the most recent quarter.

Posted: March 28th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

BlackBerry boss has swipe at Apple as Z10 hits stores

The BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is displayed, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in New York. BlackBerry is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the Canadian company. AP FLE PHOTO

The head of BlackBerry has taken a swipe at Apple, saying in an interview the iPhone’s operating system was outdated, while promising thousands of new apps as it prepares to launch its new Z10 handset.

Posted: March 19th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

BlackBerry Z10 launched in Indonesia

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BlackBerry on Friday launched its new Z10 smartphone in Indonesia, the company’s third-largest market, as it rapidly loses ground elsewhere to rivals such as Apple and Samsung.

Posted: March 15th, 2013 in Apps and Softwares,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

New BlackBerry coming to the US on March 22

Blackberry South Asia Managing Director Hastings Singh poses with the new Blackberry Z10 smartphone during its launch in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 4, 2013. The Z10 will be launched in the US only on March 22.  AP /ACHMAD IBRAHIM

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion will launch its new touchscreen smartphone in the US with AT&T on March 22. The release will come several weeks after RIM launched the much-delayed devices elsewhere.

Posted: March 12th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

BlackBerry to withdraw from Japan—reports

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Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry will not launch its new models in Japan, reports said Friday, effectively heralding a pull-out from a booming smartphone market where it is being beaten by Apple.

Posted: February 8th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »

New BlackBerry to be released in US in mid-March

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The chief executive of Research In Motion said he’s disappointed the new BlackBerry won’t be released in the United States until mid-March, but he said early data suggests sales in the U.K. are above expectations.

Posted: February 5th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Review: BlackBerry Z10 is good stab at rebirth

The BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is displayed, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in New York. BlackBerry is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the Canadian company. AP FLE PHOTO

Are you ashamed to have a BlackBerry? It’s not exactly a status symbol any more, at least not in the U.S., after it got left in the dust by the iPhone. Now, there’s a new BlackBerry that wants to get back into the cool club: the Z10.

Posted: January 31st, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Crucial, long-overdue BlackBerry makeover arrives

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011, file photo,  a Blackberry employee  holds a mobile phone of Blackberry in Berlin. Research In Motion (RIM) made another step towards the release of its new BlackBerry smartphones on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, announcing that it plans to unveil the devices and its new operating system on Jan. 30. AP/dapd, Berthold Stadler

The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is promising a speedier device, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone. It’s the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the Canadian company.

Posted: January 29th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

RIM shares pounded on subscriber worries

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011, file photo,  a Blackberry employee  holds a mobile phone of Blackberry in Berlin. Research In Motion (RIM) made another step towards the release of its new BlackBerry smartphones on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, announcing that it plans to unveil the devices and its new operating system on Jan. 30. AP/dapd, Berthold Stadler

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion plummeted Friday on the Nasdaq exchange on investor fears that its new smartphone platform will thin the ranks paying for its service.

Posted: December 22nd, 2012 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

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