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RIM Files Suit Over BlackBerry Clone
News Good makes handheld computers that, like RIM's BlackBerry devices, can send and receive email. The company had tried to pre-empt RIM's patent claims by filing suit against RIM last month. That suit asked a US District Court in California to declare...
[June 20, 2002, 7:32]
RIM Announces Yahoo Alliance
News Research in Motion (RIM), the company whose name is now synonymous with mobile email, is now making a play for the IM-on-the-move market with the announcement of two instant messaging partnerships for the BlackBerry.
[March 14, 2005, 14:10]
RIM Won't Do 'half-baked' Dual-mode Devices
News Research In Motion (RIM) won't release a dual-mode phone while the technology is "half-baked", a senior representative said on Thursday. The company's vice-president of commercial relations for Europe, Rick Constanzo, was speaking at the London...
[June 5, 2006, 11:15]
RIM Chairman Quits Over Stock Options
News The chairman of handset manufacturer RIM has resigned following an investigation into the backdating of stock options, but will stay on as co-chief executive and director of the BlackBerry-maker. The final figure of $250m was much greater than the...
[March 6, 2007, 12:11]
RIM Wins UK Patent Case
News InPro, a firm based in Luxembourg which acquires and licenses patents, had claimed that RIM's BlackBerry service violated its patent for a computer system that reduces the processing power used by portable computers and other devices when...
[February 2, 2006, 17:15]
RIM Prepares Lotus And BlackBerry Cocktail
News Support for the software will arrive in RIM's line-up later this year, the companies said on Tuesday. Under the deal between RIM and IBM, BlackBerry owners will be able to use the Lotus Instant Messaging client to reach their existing corporate IM...
[April 20, 2005, 9:45]
RIM Report Stuns Analysts
News News of increased revenue and profitability helped boost RIM's stock by $19.37, or 42.02 percent, to $65.47. RIM's strong performance starkly contrasts with that of other handheld makers, like PalmOne, which sells a combination of wireless and non...
[December 24, 2003, 8:25]
RIM Unveils First Super-3G BlackBerry
News RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smartphones to include high-speed HSDPA connectivity. The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and...
[May 12, 2008, 13:30]
RIM Sues Handspring And Good
News Research In Motion said late Wednesday that it has filed suit against Handspring, alleging that the company's Treo organisers infringe on a RIM patent. The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, charges...
[September 20, 2002, 7:54]
RIM Creates Patent 'workaround'
News We've completed the workaround," RIM chairman and co-CEO Jim Balsillie said. In a phone interview, Balsillie declined to give specifics on the technology, citing both companies' nondisclosure agreements and RIM's so-called quiet period prior to...
[June 17, 2005, 10:30]
RIM Won't Do 'half-baked' Dual-mode Devices
Talkback RIM's "Blackberry" has passed it's "Sell-By" date. Their technology is very expensive and just does not fit the future mainstream of data and video transmissions that are bi-directionally transmitted to and from a Mazingo single dual mode WiFi...
[June 9, 2006, 23:26]
RIM Faces Uphill Battle With Windows Mobile In Asia
News BlackBerry-maker RIM faces an uphill battle against competing platform Windows Mobile in the Asia-Pacific region. RIM's dominant US market share hit 44.5 percent last quarter, according to analyst firm IDC.
[August 8, 2008, 8:21]
RIM Fires Latest Suit At Good
News The lawsuit, which is the Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry maker's third in a little more than a month, alleges Good "engaged in unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement and trademark dilution resulting in the unlawful use...
[August 1, 2002, 6:27]
RIM Announces BlackBerry PBX Functionality
News RIM has announced its BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS), which promises to make the BlackBerry smartphone an extension of an enterprise's PBX system. At its annual user conference, the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES), RIM said on Tuesday...
[May 9, 2007, 17:41]
BEA, RIM Launch Web Services Venture
News Software maker BEA and handheld device maker RIM will announce on Wednesday that they are collaborating on technology that will make it faster and easier for developers to build Web services for BlackBerry devices.
[May 1, 2002, 15:34]
RIM Cuts Staff By 10 Percent
News RIM, which makes the popular BlackBerry handheld device, said the layoffs would help it trim costs. RIM had 2,200 employees worldwide at the beginning of November. We believe this streamlining will prove to be a prudent move for RIM in both the...
[November 12, 2002, 15:18]
RIM Aims To Broaden BlackBerry User Base
News The days of the BlackBerry as purely a big business enterprise device are numbered, as RIM targets its smartphones at all sizes of business: from the biggest fish to the tiniest tiddlers running a business from a single home PC.
[May 15, 2008, 9:03]
RIM Wants Clearer Pricing For Mobile Data
News Senior representatives at Research In Motion (RIM) and Sony Ericsson suggested on Wednesday that operators need to make data pricing simpler for users and IT managers to understand. Speaking at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, RIM's vice...
[October 18, 2006, 17:20]
RIM Boosts BlackBerry With Wi-Fi
News The RIM BlackBerry 8820 gets another boost with Wi-Fi capabilities. Bonnie Cha examines this and other features of the latest version of the popular communications device.
[September 24, 2007, 11:15]
RIM Picks Intel For Future BlackBerrys
News Co-chief executive Michael Lazaridis said the partnership with Intel would not change RIM's relationship with its other processor suppliers. RIM's current BlackBerry devices use chips based on the ARM 9 RISC processor architecture, though Lazaridis...
[September 28, 2005, 9:45]
