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  • iPhooey! Time to buy RIM, analysts say

    Posted Jun 17 2008, 09:52 AM by Kim Peterson
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    This may be the summer of the iPhone, but you wouldn't know it from looking at shares of Research in Motion, which makes BlackBerry smartphones. Take a look at RIM's three-month chart (pictured). The stock has soared 36%, even though Apple and its upcoming 3G iPhone have been hogging all the attention.

    Expect the stock to continue to rise in anticipation of RIM's first-quarter earnings report next Wednesday. Analysts and Jim Cramer are gaga over the stock, recommending that you buy now before the price goes higher. Shares were up more than 1% to $142.74 at 11 a.m. PST.   Read More...

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  • New BlackBerry coming. iPhone who?

    Posted May 12 2008, 10:25 AM by 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).   Read More...

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  • Apple takes on BlackBerry for business users

    Posted Mar 06 2008, 12:11 PM by 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%.   Read More...

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