John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 10, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Another handful of worrisome data points for Research in Motion, which appears to be slipping down carriers’ priority lists as the BlackBerry struggles for purchase in an increasingly sophisticated market. New Verizon sales metrics from ITG Investment Research analyst Matthew Goodman paint a picture of RIM that, while not yet dire, describe a worrisome trend.
John Paczkowski in News on December 7, 2010 at 3:01 am PT
2010 was a difficult year for Reasearch in Motion, one marked by slowing momentum and ebbing market share. But next year promises to be different. Because in 2011 RIM will be more on point than it has been in the past.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on August 16, 2010 at 12:35 pm PT
Good thing the success of Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry Torch hinges more on volume sales to enterprise than lines-around-the-block launch-week pandemonium, because the latter is evidently nowhere to be found.
Voices
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 4, 2010 at 11:08 am PT
BlackBerry introduced a new operating system Tuesday that is designed to work better with touchscreens, which are increasingly popular on smartphones.
But in the list of older phones compatible with this touchscreen-friendly system, two devices are conspicuously absent: BlackBerry’s own older touchscreen phones.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on August 3, 2010 at 9:34 am PT
Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry 6 OS
will first ship with the Torch on August 12. But it will come to the company’s other devices soon enough. While a firm timetable hasn’t yet been set,
RIM said today that BlackBerry 6 will reach the Pearl 3G and the Bold 9700 and 9650 “in the months ahead.” Two devices it evidently won’t be reaching: The Storm and Storm2.
Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on March 16, 2010 at 3:08 pm PT
Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry app compiles contact information on the BlackBerry for anyone you’ve emailed–regardless of whether or not you saved their information in your address book.
Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2009 at 9:33 am PT
Google has acquired AdMob for $750 million, a huge price for an innovative start-up that hass pioneered online ads on mobile and now smart phones.
BoomTown visited AdMob last fall and posted about how it was likely to eventually be acquired by…
Google!
The move is a major one for the search giant, which has been pushing hard into the mobile advertising space as it seeks to grow its already considerable Web business. AdMob is arguably the fastest out of the gate in the nascent arena.
Plus, here’s AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui in a video interview with me last November, as well as the official press release on the sale.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on October 14, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT
Motorola’s CLIQ and RIM’s Storm2 are among the many interesting challengers to the iPhone.
Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 25, 2009 at 3:02 pm PT
Seeking the best, and worst, of both worlds, BlackBerry and iPhone users switch products. The Mossberg Solution takes a look at what they like and don’t like about their new toys.
John Paczkowski in News on July 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm PT
Earlier this year, Christine Varney, the new antitrust chief at the Department of Justice, said she planned to return the DOJ to a policy that led to landmark antitrust suits like the one against Microsoft in the ’90s. And she delivered on that promise in short order. Since her confirmation in late April, the DOJ has seen a sort of Trustbuster renaissance. It has begun inquiring into potentially anticompetitive recruiting practices in Silicon Valley. It’s opened an investigation into the Google Books settlement. And now it’s scrutinizing cellphone exclusivity deals, like the lucrative one between Apple and AT&T.
