11 posts and columns on Crackberry

Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL’s Engadget for New Competing Gadget Site

in Media on July 7, 2011 at 9:24 am PT

I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization. It is Topolsky’s second major talent raid since he left his editor-in-chief job there in March, for a new gadget property aimed at unseating Engadget.
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Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets

in Mobile on September 7, 2010 at 2:28 pm PT

Research In Motion has indeed acquired software developer DataViz–well, most of it anyway. Confirming an earlier report at CrackBerry.com, RIM said it had snapped up the developer of Documents To Go–one of Apple’s best-selling apps of 2009–along with much of the talent that developed it.
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BlackBerry Torch Corners the “My Company Gave Me a BlackBerry” Market

in News on August 20, 2010 at 2:04 pm PT

It’s looking more and more like the Blackberry Torch isn’t quite the game changer Research in Motion pitched it as; it’s just another BlackBerry. In a Friday note to clients, Barclays analyst Jeff Kvaal said Torch sales have been healthy—at least on par with those of the Bold 9700. But demand for the device doesn’t seem to have extended beyond RIM’s BlackBerry base.

RIM Product Line More FrankenBerry Than CrackBerry

in News on June 26, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

With the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS in stores and the myTouch 3G, T-Mobile’s second Google Android phone, headed to market, is Research in Motion’s product lineup beginning to look a bit dated? Which leads to another question: Has RIM’s success made it too complacent? GC Research analyst Tero Kuittinen believes it has.
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RIM President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis: The Full D7 Session Video

in D7 on June 22, 2009 at 11:12 am PT

We kick off the week of full posts of the onstage interviews at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference with Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO of Research in Motion, which is best known as the maker of the BlackBerry. Lazaridis has been key to developing the BlackBerry smart phone, which means he is directly responsible for the CrackBerry problem too. And it means he’s in the thick of the new handheld platform wars.
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RIM President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis: The Full D7 Session

in D7 on June 22, 2009 at 10:30 am PT

We kick off the week of full posts of the onstage interviews at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference with Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO of Research in Motion, which is best known as the maker of the BlackBerry. Lazaridis has been key to developing the BlackBerry smartphone, which means he is directly responsible for the CrackBerry problem too. And it means he’s in the thick of the new handheld platform wars.
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D7 Interview: RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis Says It’s Not a One-Size-Fits-All Business

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 2:22 pm PT

If the iPhone and Palm Pre are perfecting the convergence of cellphone and PC, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry anticipated it. And that’s largely thanks to co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, its patron saint, who conceived the BlackBerry in 1999 as a two-way pager, and over the ensuing years, transformed it into the device we know today. The BlackBerry revolutionized corporate life with a famously addictive real-time, almost-anywhere connectivity, which prompted Merriam-Webster to recognize its “Crackberry” alias as the 2006 Word-of-the-Year. But that was three years ago–a lifetime in the mobile market. In 2009, “Crackberry” is a cliche, and RIM, though still a handset juggernaut, must work harder to maintain its dominant player status in an enterprise smartphone space crowded with formidable challengers: Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Google and its open source Android OS.
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My iKid iJacked My iPhone: A Geek Parenting Tragedy

in News on April 8, 2009 at 3:43 am PT

BoomTown is not proud of the problem. Not at all. But, after hearing the same situation described over and over again from many other parents like me, I am also not alone. As it turns out, our almost-seven-year-old son, Louie, has morphed into an iJacker. That would be of my iPhone and the many, many, many games apps to be played on it–from Crazy Penguin Catapult to Finger Sprint to Super Monkey Ball. And, good lord, how did a “Race to Witch Mountain” app get on there? So, I don’t need any stats to tell me that the iPhone, and the iPod touch too, have turned into gaming devices of great impact.
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Goodbye BlackBerry (and Hello iFart App?)

in News on January 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Hello, my name is BoomTown and I am a reformed CrackBerryaholic. How bad was it? Here’s the worst story: I was holding my BlackBerry in my hand, inadvertently for once, when I gave birth to my son in 2002. I should have been embarrassed by that. I was not. Hence, that makes me a full-fledged Blackberry addict. Actually, I was one. That’s right, I have finally abandoned the BlackBerry for the iPhone.

My CrackBerry and My SighPhone

in News on June 11, 2008 at 9:46 am PT

With the drop in price of the iPhone in its new 3G mode to the low, low price of $199, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was signaling that he was pricing them to move. Or, as the old retail cliche goes: Stack them high and watch them fly. But, from reports, even though the 2.0 version is obviously better (although I have yet to see one), I will not be doing that again when the new iPhone 3G comes out in a few weeks.
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