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gadgets
Most Powerful Man in World Gets Most Powerful BlackBerry in World
Yes, Barack Obama will get a BlackBerry — after some government spook agency puts in an ungodly amount of encryption (and maybe some back doors so they can listen in). More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by cassandra: Ok, but WHAT MODEL is it? Is it a BlackBerry Storm? Bold? Curve? 8800? Inquiring geeks want to know. Social-climbing... 6 Responses | Other threads
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acquisitions
RIM the next takeover target?
Shares of Research In Motion have declined from $148 to $60 in four months, falling along with most tech stocks. The difference between RIM and, say, Yahoo? Microsoft still wants to buy RIM, say some analysts cited by Reuters. Forget Google's still-not-on-the-market Android phones; RIM's BlackBerry is the only real competition for Apple's iPhone. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by raincoaster: Not to mention that for arbitrary reasons the canuck buck is now at 86 cents! 1 Responses | Other threads
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dumbphones
BlackBerry Storm specs claim it runs iPhone software
Research In Motion's iPhone substitute, the touchscreen-equipped BlackBerry Storm, has debuted. Perhaps a bit hastily. In the U.K., it's sold by Vodafone, which has displayed a page of specifications. The screenshots show the Storm displaying the iPhone's characteristic icons and Apple's Safari Web browser. Has Apple licensed the iPhone's operating system to RIM? No, what this looks like is a rushed-out product launch, and an overeager Web designer. Another shot: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Lawrence: if it looks like an Iphone, talks like an iphone, and walks like an iphone - it's an Iphone ...why bother... 1 Responses | Other threads
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your privacy is an illusion
Indian government now knows where all its Blackberry users are
Various agencies in the Indian government — including its intelligence bureau — together have managed to crack Blackberry's encryption to monitor and track the ubiquitous mobile devices. Blackberry users communicating with each other or other devices on most of India's phone networks — though currently not with its state-owned telcos — can be monitored. Research in Motion did not contribute any technical data to the Indian government and has not yet commented. [IT Examiner] (Photo by Editor B)
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Comment by WhiteStar: As heise.de reports, they did NOT break the encryption, just the propritary protocol used for the non-enterprise server solution. more » | Other threads
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great moments in pr
McCain helped invent the BlackBerry, says clueless pal
"You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create," said McCainiac economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, waving a shiny iPhone-like device at reporters. His premise was that McCain's work on the Senate Commerce Committee helped paved the way for breakthroughs in telecommunications. But really, what was he thinking? The AP, pouncing on the obvious comparison to Al Gore's Internet boast, had Holtz-Eakin's quote out on the wires faster than you could thumb-type OMG NO DOUG NO. (Image by Research in Motion)
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By Paul BoutinComment by mind_at_large: He was a POW....How dare you....you nasty blog commenters more » | Other threads
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blackberry
CrackBerry addictions hit home with new TiVo feature
Research in Motion — makers of those ubiquitous BlackBerry thumbtypers — is teaming up with TiVo to make applications that lets you schedule TV shows with just your phone. An application to let you access video content saved on your TiVo is also in the works. It's yet another in a wave of "lifestyle" applications recently released by the Canadian mobile device maker, likely an effort to stem corporate users from buying the more flexible, and consumer-friendly, Apple iPhone or new devices with Google's Android mobile operating system. [News.com] (Photo by Marlon E)
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Comment by mind_at_large: you need to change your company....mine is cool with new installs more » | Other threads
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dumbphones
BlackBerry adds a MySpace app
You'll be able to hit Tila Tequila from your Bold starting next month, says BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. I found this one-paragraph writeup hiding in a long News.com post on today's doings at CTIA in San Francisco: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by UTnick: if its like the app for the instinct than i don't have much hopre for it. the one for the... more » | Other threads
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clips
The 5 goofiest computer ads
Microsoft's new Seinfeld ad campaign proves you can't predict success. Here are five goofy ads that worked — plus the clip that probably sold Microsoft on Seinfeld. Above: A parody of Jacques Cousteau's undersea documentaries for Sun Microsystems. More » -
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smartphones
iPhone 3G vs. Blackberry — if you switch, are you screwed?
"BlackBerry is the only way to go ... the rest are for kids," says one of the 400 comments to Web Worker Daily's thorough comparison of iPhone 3G's pros and cons versus a BlackBerry for use on the job. iPhone crazies are everywhere, so in response I've summarized Web Worker's pro-BlackBerry argument for those of us who pay the mortgage with a road-battered 8703e. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by fatbat71: Maybe blackberry users' reason to use one hand is so they can browse porn with one hand and... more » | Other threads
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venture capital
RIM seeds new $150 million venture fund for BlackBerry software
Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) announced a new $150 million Blackberry Partners Fund which includes private Canadian investors, RBC and Thomson Reuters. The fund will focus on companies building technology that works with RIM's popular BlackBerry mobile devices. And it raises the question: Why isn't the large installed base of BlackBerry devices motivation enough for developers? [PEHub]
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By Jackson WestComment by Abhi 2.0: "Why isn't the large installed base of BlackBerry devices motivation enough for developers?" Even more so, since nearly all blackberry users... more » | Other threads
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deathwatch
BlackBerry doormat Visto cuts London staff by a third
Visto CEO Brian Bogosian likes to tell reporters to expect an IPO soon. But first: layoffs. The mobile email company will cut its London workforce by a third, laying off "senior IT staff, development, product services and pre-sales workers," reports the Register.
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Comment by JamieEurus: Visto layed off more then 60 in October, 2008. The London office is ghost towny. About 2-5 employees left in... more » | Other threads
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yahoo news
Yahoo's top technology news: My CrackBerry is died!
Yahoo News has a lot of stories on its tech page. There's a link to the Microsoft-Yahoo "standoff" and a story about Nokia adding Google to its mobile phones, but Yahoo's top-of-the-fold most-important tech story of the day? Yesterday's BlackBerry outage. We wonder if a producer at Yahoo News was still peeved, a day later, that he couldn't see if Elise Vanderhof had emailed him back yet. -
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Service outage strikes BlackBerry users
Poor Research in Motion. First the iPhone shows up and makes its BlackBerry look old and busted. Now, it really is old and busted. RIM is experiencing a "disruption of service" affecting all wireless carriers in North America. BlackBerry users could "experience difficulty" using data capabilities like email and web connectivity on their phones. RIM has called the event a "critical severity outage" which started this afternoon and affects enterprise clients and "users of the Americas network." The company has no estimate for when service will be restored. Quick, call a meeting — people will pay attention for lack of anything else to do. (Photo by decaf)
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Comment by solmssen: This is actually the second outage in the last few days - All North American BES and BIS servers were... more » | Other threads
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geek love
Iz Tecknology Ruining Yr Relationships? Expert Sez Yes
Would you rather text someone than talk to them face to face? Then you might have technology overload, which means you engage in addictive behavior towards technological devices According to John O'Neill, the director of addictions services at the Menninger Clinic, "I think [technology overload] shares some of the same components as people who become addicted to alcohol and drugs in that we start to see that someone cannot really put it down and cannot stop the use of it even when there are some consequences." So what are the symptoms of this life-ruining addiction? O'Neill tells Reuters: "Using text messages, email and voice mail when face-to-face interaction would be more appropriate, or limiting time with friends and family to tend to your email, return phone calls or to surf the Internet." Hmm, by those rubrics, 90% of our friends are incurably-addicted to their sweet, sweet tech. [Jezebel]
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By JessicaComment by taomaster99: so you're bitching, REALLY, because no one paid attention to you!!!!!! GET OVER YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm pretty sure you'd... more » | Other threads
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iphone
This'll teach Blackberry users
The British media may be knocking Apple's iPhone, but British cartoonists Charles Peattie & Russell Taylor understand the true significance of the computer maker's shiny mobile phone. Fake Steve Jobs links to a comic strip by the duo that perfectly captures the ethos of the iPhone ... and Fake Steve. Yes, it is elitist, that's the point. The complete cartoon after the jump. More » -
smartphones
BlackBerry users happier than you
A speedy operating system and long-lasting batteries top the reasons BlackBerry business users are more satisfied than working stiffs who lug Treo, Samsung and other smartphone brands. You say you and your iPhone weren't included in this J.D. Power survey of real businesspeople? Exactly.
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By Paul BoutinComment by deathbychichi: Real businesspeople don't use iPhones? Here I thought I was a real businessperson. *sob* The only shortcoming of the... more » | Other threads
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smartphones
You're late, phonetard
Over the weekend, a large number of so-called smart phones set their clocks back an hour a week too soon, observing the old end of Daylight Saving Time. And you thought you were 55 minutes early today! I used the extra hour last spring to hunt down instructions for the most popular computers and phones. Summary for BlackBerry users: Set your phone to Mountain Time for the next week. To save you more time today, I've preposted the first three comments to this item from software engineers. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by northcountry: Or, is it worse that I have been an hour late to everything today and no one said a thing? more » | Other threads
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surly adopter
Crash-testing Facebook for BlackBerry
Facebook debuted a BlackBerry client today, in an effort to bring more investment bankers to its platform. (As if the college girls weren't inducement enough.) Delinquent Valleywag correspondent and haughtily self-important BlackBerry user Paul Boutin sent in a test review between meetings. If you see Paul, point him back to the office — I could tell he was phoning it in. Boutin's off-the-cuff assessement, after the jump. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by funny: I tested it on my verizon wireless phone and didn't have the same problem. I was able to access it... more » | Other threads
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the chart
How well did the iPhone really sell?
Apple's third quarter was a blowout all around, but the real question is how the iPhone is faring. Now that we've got a quarter's worth of data, we can compare it to the competition, and gauge the effect of blogosphere scandals like the recent episode of iPhones "bricking" after a software update — sure, tech pundits got worked up, but did people stop buying iPhones? The bottom line: Steve Jobs & Co. entered a daunting market and performed quite well. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by deathbychichi: Here in Nederlands iPhone is looking pretty cool. Lots of people want it. Needs push email to non-Yahoo... more » | Other threads
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smartphones
Some smartphone junkies are experiencing phantom vibrations — feeling the phone ring when it isn't in their pocket. Some users compare it to a phantom limb. It even has a name: "fauxcellarm." Is that a Blackberry in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? [AP] -
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Research In Motion beat Wall Street analysts' expectations, reporting a profit of $287.7 million in the second quarter as revenue rose 108 percent. RIM shipped more than 3 million BlackBerry smartphones. Guess the iPhone release didn't slow them down at all. [Canadian Press]
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Comment by Owen Thomas: @0x6772: That's profit, not revenues, and for a company that did $3 billion in revenues last fiscal year, yes, that's... more » | Other threads
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sorry, i have to take this
Busy Journalist Way Too Popular For iPhone
In my career, fast personal networking is as important as fast computer networking. I've set up my BlackBerry with a hot button to jump to my contacts in midcall or mid-email. The iPhone's home screen, on the other hand, includes YouTube and Stocks but not the Contacts app. When you do find it, you can't do a quick search—you can only browse your contacts by last name. This looks fantastic if you have 24 contacts but falls apart when you've got 240 and aren't good at remembering people's last names. Really, anything beats having to scroll through 300 names with my finger.
That's Paul Boutin in Slate, ostensibly comparing the iPhone to the BlackBerry. But the real lesson here is that Paul Boutin is much, much, much more important than you. And don't you forget it.
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By abalkComment by drewheyman: my blackberry has close to 300,000 contacts in it - via direct access to the company address book. however, the... more » | Other threads
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acquisitions
Why Microsoft shouldn't buy the BlackBerry maker
For Wall Street, it's a juicy notion: Could Microsoft buy Research In Motion? It's the kind of high-concept idea that gets traders afroth and keeps analysts busy churning out reports. It's also — how to put this delicately — completely stupid. Yes, Microsoft could buy RIM — and yes, you could go out and buy a gun and shoot yourself in the face. Both are in the realm of possibility, and both are suicidal ideas. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ShooterSharkey: RIMM seems grossly overvalued so a MSFT play for them appears silly. They have very small marketshare in the total mobile... more » | Other threads
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great moments in pr
BlackBerry, startup CEOs pimp each other
Not convinced you need a BlackBerry? Research In Motion has corralled a slew of professionals, who in true "Real World" form, reveal what is so tantalizing about their sidekick (if not their Sidekicks). Not only can you listen to a variety of presidents and CEOs espouse the obvious virtues of an email-capable smartphone, but you can also hear predictable sales pitches for their companies. Premal Shah, president of the nonprofit microloan site Kiva.org, spends half of his 2 minutes and 35 seconds telling viewers about the site. In between elevator pitches, he says, "The first thing I do is I look at my BlackBerry when I wake up. In the morning, it's almost like my motivation to open my eyes." Wow. For us, coffee does the trick. If you're looking to pimp your business, submissions guidelines are located in the page footer. If you don't have a BlackBerry, just borrow a friend's and pretend. -
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We don't need no stinking iPhone!
While the mainstream media and blogosphere remain fixated on the iPhone hype, Research In Motion (RIMM), makers of the addictive Blackberry, is content with measurable success — a 20% stock surge on "unbelievable" first quarter results: 73% earnings growth, substantial subscriber acquisitions, solid expectations going forward, and a 3 for 1 stock split. [Reuters] -
cellphones
BlackBerry Outage Update: It's Kinda Up
If you're a BlackBerry user, you probably noticed that you haven't been able to contact anyone since last night. Bummer. The good news is, RIM's imagineers have gotten the system online. The bad news is, there's a large backlog of messages from all the "Subject: Test, Body: Test Test Test can you see this" messages you jerkfaces were sending last night. [Gizmodo]
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By Jason ChenComment by FЯeeMan: umm... I'm cornfused. How's the Blackberry world work that EVERY single one can go down all at once? ... more » | Other threads
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