Posts Tagged ‘Blackberry’

UK channel leaders talk up the credentials of BlackBerry’s mobile device management kit in bid to deepen its ties with VARs.

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins believes the age of tablets will be short lived. He has a point, but it’s based on faulty reasoning. Here’s why.

Canalys found that app downloads from the four leading stores worldwide – Apple’s App Store, Google Play, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Store and BlackBerry World – shot up 11 percent sequentially to 13.4 billion.

The company formerly known as Research In Motion Ltd., which has lost ground to rivals – particularly Apple and Samsung – in the smartphone space over recent years, saw Q4 revenue hit $2.7 billion compared with $4.2 billion in the same quarter of 2012.

Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing says the PC manufacturer may be interested in buying BlackBerry — if the deal made sense. If it happens, Lenovo will enhance its competitive threat against rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell and provide a formidable challenge to Apple and Samsung.

Despite strong reviews for the BlackBerry 10 OS and enterprises support tools, the newly branded BlackBerry Corp. continues to slide. The reason: continued market share erosion and a chaotic rollout of new devices. Can the channel save BlackBerry?

Research In Motion is infusing Trend Micro’s Mobile Application Reputation Service into its BlackBerry platform, indicating that it plans on playing the security card to gain customer trust and credibility that could help fuel a rejuvenated market push.

RIM unleashes BlackBerry 10 with two new devices, the BlackBerry Q10 and Z10, and a few surprises: RIM has changed its corporate name to “BlackBerry” as it seeks to refocus its efforts on flagship products that will be its namesake in the smartphone battleground. But is BlackBerry 10 ready to do battle?

Growing PC-manufacturer Lenovo has enterprise ambitions as it ponders a buy of BlackBerry maker RIM in search of a solid post-PC mobile strategy. But RIM will likely have to prove itself before any true new alliances can be made.

RIM launches BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, the latest enterprise mobility management suite from the once-ubiquitous handset maker. Could RIM’s laser focus on enterprise management help spring it back to relevancy when BlackBerry 10 devices launch at the end of Q1 2013?