Unpleasant Development for Kodak: ITC Judge Rules Key Patent Invalid

A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has determined that a patent Kodak has asserted against Apple and Research In Motion is invalid.
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RIM Gets FCC Approval for Cellular-Equipped Tablet

The agency has given the nod to what appears to be an LTE-equipped version of the PlayBook tablet. RIM has promised that such a device would ship later this year.
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RIM Corners the “You’ll Use BlackBerry 7 and That’s an Order” Market

Well, at least one part of RIM’s business is on the upswing.
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RIM’s Freefall: Stock Drops to Eight-Year Low

Hard to believe that just five years ago, RIM had a stock market value of $80 billion.
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BlackBerry 7 Approved for Pentagon Use

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and other BlackBerry 7 devices get the DoD nod.
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RIM CEO to New COO, CMO: Welcome to My Nightmare

Research In Motion fills two vacant slots on its executive team.
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LTE-Enabled PlayBook’s Latest Launch Date: “Later This Year”

First it was summer 2011. Then it was fall 2011. Is this a launch window RIM can actually stick to?
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Thorsten Heins’s RIM Dreams (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Nokia Sues HTC, RIM and ViewSonic for Patent Infringement

A new front in World Patent War I — several, actually.
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Is RIM the Next Palm?

RIM in 2012 seems to be even further behind its competitors than Palm was in 2009.
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