Search results for Research in Motion
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Posted
Jan 21 2009, 08:44 AM
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Kim Peterson
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What the president wants, the president gets, and in this case the president really, really wants his BlackBerry. Barack Obama will get to keep his beloved BlackBerry, it turns out, but just for personal use. Anything related to the government must be done on an approved device, like the NSA-approved Sectera Edge, a bulky brick of a phone from General Dynamics (GD).
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Jul 31 2009, 12:36 PM
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Minyanville
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 This article was written by Minyanville's Scott Reeves
A Michigan teen has a novel excuse for not getting his homework in on time: Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle ate his book report. Justin Gawronski, 17, is a contemporary kid, so he got an attorney to press his claim against Amazon in federal court. Mixing high-tech and lawyers suggests the old ways are best: Pen, paper, and the family dog have served generations of slackers admirably. Gawronski, an advanced-placement student, said his notes lost all relevance when Amazon deleted electronic copies of George Orwell’s "Nineteen Eighty-Four" from his Kindle during a copyright dispute. Gawronski says he used the electronic book reader’s note function to make comments and annotations as he read the book, when -- zap! -- the text of the novel disappeared, thanks to the Thought Police at Amazon. This left him with comments referring only to empty disc space.
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Nov 20 2007, 11:32 AM
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Robert Walberg
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Like the song says, "some say love is a Razr that leaves your soul to bleed." Well, my soul has bled waiting for Motorola's stock to turn around. I can't wait any longer -- I'm not Job, after all.
Motorola has been screwing up for so long, it even gets it wrong when it gets it right. Last quarter the company delivered another lousy set of sales and earnings numbers, yet it guided fiscal fourth-quarter earnings to a range of 13 to 14 cents a share -- a few pennies above The Street's consensus. Normally, guiding estimates higher would be perceived as a good thing, and it was at first as the stock edged higher on the news. However, in offering up hope for the fourth quarter and the upcoming year, CEO Ed Zander might have won himself a new contract. And that's bad news.
You see one of the reasons I bought Motorola's stock down at its lows was in anticipation of a new management team. Typically when a struggling company finally ousts its old CEO in favor of someone new and full of promise, the underlying stock tends to rally. Until recently, Zander's ouster was all but certain. But in light of the company's modest progress off a terrible set of numbers, Zander might just hang around. Let's face it, he did take all the credit for the Razr so there might be a board member or two who thinks he's on the verge of another one-hit wonder.
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May 12 2008, 10:25 AM
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Kim Peterson
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 ![]() Research in Motion announced its new BlackBerry today, which the company clearly developed with Apple's iPhone in mind. The BlackBerry Bold is gorgeous, and positions RIM for a smartphone war this summer against Apple's upcoming 3G iPhone.
RIM shares are up 7% on the news as investors applaud the first major BlackBerry release in more than a year. But Apple investors aren't too worried: shares rose 3% today on word that the HBO cable network might sell shows on iTunes.
Here's where the two companies stand heading into the summer. The BlackBerry still commands the smartphone market, having made extensive inroads into the enterprise and becoming the de facto business phone. It has a 40% market share. But the iPhone is a strong contender, hitting a 28% market share in Q4 despite a huge flaw: incompatibility with the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server (Apple is working on a fix).
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Jun 05 2009, 03:41 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Analysts have said that Apple (AAPL) does not need Steve Jobs. Apple shares are up 60% since he took a break to work on his health with his doctors. Because the form of cancer he has can be particularly deadly, a large number of investors believed that he would never be back. The Apple board would be forced to replace an icon.
But, The Wall Street Journal says Jobs will be returning soon, at just about the time the company will release a new version of the iPhone, one with more multimedia functions. Apple may also release a less expensive version of the handset to bring in consumers who have stayed away because of the device’s high price.
Everything is not OK at Apple. The iPhone faces threats from new versions of the Research In Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry, the Palm (PALM) Pre, and new smartphones from global handset leader Nokia (NOK).
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Sep 17 2008, 12:14 PM
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Kim Peterson
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Kevin Maney wonders, if John McCain didn't invent the BlackBerry, who did?
It wasn't Research in Motion, the company that makes the BlackBerry. RIMM had to pay more than $600 million to settle a patent lawsuit by patent holding company NTP over the BlackBerry service.
A man named Geoff Goodfellow published the idea of sending wireless e-mail to a device back in 1982. But he doesn't get any money for his idea these days.
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Mar 06 2008, 12:11 PM
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Kim Peterson
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A friend of mine was thrilled to get an Apple iPhone for Christmas from his wife. But he returned it a few weeks later. Why? Because he couldn't access his work e-mail on the device. The iPhone, for all its cool features, lacked one essential tool: the ability to sync easily with corporate e-mail on the Microsoft Exchange server.
How many times has this story been repeated? That's why today's news from Apple is huge. The company said it will work with Microsoft to license the ActiveSync synchronization program, which lets iPhone users get e-mail, contacts and calendar information from Microsoft Exchange servers. It sounds like this could happen sometime in the summer.
The move means Apple is going after Research in Motion's ubiquitous BlackBerry in the corporate market. But this isn't a death knell for Research in Motion, which has a huge lock on enterprise customers. RIM had a 73% market share for smartphones in February, according to ChangeWave Research. Palm's market share has declined over the past year to 18%, and Apple's iPhone is around 5%.
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Feb 04 2009, 07:02 AM
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Kim Peterson
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Google's (GOOG) releasing new software that lets users track the locations of their friends and family on a map. Finally, a program that a parent of a teenager can really use!
It works when people register their mobile phones with the service and give it permission to share their location information. The software will then show their location on a map for others to see. (Only an approved list of friends will see it.)
I can see people having a lot of fun with this. But don't expect the stock price to move; Google's not going to be making any money with this right now. Still, the marketing and advertising potential is enormous.
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Dec 10 2007, 03:46 AM
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Kim Peterson
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 Boeing shut down its ambitious onboard WiFi project last year, saying that after six years of work it couldn't find enough airlines who would offer the service to its customers. The service, called Connexion, provided e-mail, Web and TV during flights, with costs that ranged from $15 for less than three hours to $30 for a full day. It was mainly offered on non-U.S. airlines, and people who used it raved. But analysts said the service, which cost $150 million a year to run, was only used by 1,000 people a day across 125 commercial planes.
Boeing was too hasty in killing Connexion. U.S. airlines are slowly embracing free WiFi service, hoping to lure customers who want to send e-mails and instant messages from 30,000 feet. JetBlue is launching its WiFi trial tomorrow on just one plane, becoming the first U.S. carrier to do so. American, Virgin and Alaska plan to roll out service next year.
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Posted
Oct 20 2008, 11:00 AM
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Kim Peterson
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I've been expecting Research in Motion shares to fall below $50, and they are closer to that mark after a Pacific Crest analyst said that sales aren't looking so good lately.
The analyst, James Faucette, has been checking on BlackBerry sales in stores in North America and Europe. Sales of the clamshell BlackBerry Flip are so bad that only one or two sold per store in the first few days they were available, he wrote.
There's more bad news. The BlackBerry Bold has run into software problems, causing U.K. carrier Orange to suspend sales. And in Canada, Rogers Wireless is seeing shortages of the BlackBerry Curve.
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