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US Immigration and Customs Agency switching 17,600 employees from BlackBerry...
Reuters reported today that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ending its contract with RIM and purchasing $2.1 million worth of iPhones for its 17,600 employees: The agency said it...
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DOD lays groundwork to install over 160k iOS and Android devices, capacity...
In December, we heard reports that the Pentagon had officially certified an Android device and Android 2.2 for use on Defense Department networks. According to a report from The Washington Post, citing...
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Another US government agency drops BlackBerry, plans switch to iPhone 5
Following the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announcing it would end its contract with RIM and purchase $2.1 million worth of iPhones, Bloomberg reported today that the U.S. National...
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Patent troll Personal Audio LLC sues iTunes’ top podcaster Adam Carolla’s Ace...
In July 2011, a federal jury in Texas awarded “patent licensing company” Personal Audio LLC $8 million in its patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The jury found Apple infringed two valid...
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iPhone 5 compared to upcoming BlackBerry Z10 smartphone on video
German-language blog telekom-presse.at posted images and video of BlackBerry’s upcoming Z10 smartphone today said to be running a beta of BB 10. In the video (and images below), the site compared the...
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US Defense Department confirms plans to roll out 100K iOS and Android devices...
We heard reports in October that the U.S. Department of Defense was preparing to approve a large number of iOS and Android devices for use on government networks. Those reports were followed earlier...
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comScore: Apple increases lead as top smartphone vendor in US, iOS steals...
Research firm comScore is out with its usual monthly report that ranks the top smartphone OEMs and platforms for the three-month period ending in February. Apple continues to grow its lead this month...
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Tim Cook talks product pipeline, 5-inch iPhone, growth in China, supply...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently answering questions from the press following the company’s live Q2 2013 earnings call. Here are some of the highlights: Cook on growth in China: We had our best...
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DoD to grant Apple’s iOS 6 & Samsung Galaxy devices security approval for...
The iPhone and iPad have already been cleared for use by a number of US government agencies, and in February the US Defense Department confirmed plans to open its networks to 100,000 new devices from...
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BlackBerry announces BBM coming to iOS and Android later this summer
Although BlackBerry has been rumored to bring its BBM messaging platform to iOS and other devices before, today the company has made things official announcing at its event that support for both iOS...
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BlackBerry’s BBM apps for iOS and Android arriving June 27?
Update: T-Mobile has now removed its original tweet. According to a tweet from T-Mobile UK’s Twitter account, the previously announced BlackBerry Messenger service will be arriving on both Android and...
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RIM doesn’t want Apple to trademark ‘WebKit’ for reasons unknown, files...
RIM has filed an ‘opposition action’ (via Patently Apple) in Canada against Apple’s trademark application for ‘WebKit’, the rendering platform based on KHTML that Apple help create before making...
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RIM co-CEOs co-resign, co-COO Thorsten Heins takes over
I think the Globe and Mail was the first to report that RIM’s beleaguered CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are out – moved upstairs to the boardroom. The strangest thing about the story, and...
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NOAA ditches BlackBerry for the iPhone and iPad
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (via The Loop) is turning the tide in its IT department. Doing what many companies are doing these days, NOAA plans to ditch RIM’s...
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Game Over: Latest Nielsen survey says over 90 percent of US Smartphones...
With iOS gaining roughly 30 percent United States marketshare as of Q4 2011 at the expense of RIM, Nokia and Microsoft, new numbers from Nielsen’s latest study show just how much of a duopoly the U.S....
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Ex-AT&T employee leaked Apple (and RIM) sales numbers to traders
In case you ever thought the U.S. stock market is an even playing field: “I provided insider information concerning AT&T’s sales of Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s (Research In Motion Ltd) Blackberry...
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RIM to be split into handset and services, sold off piecemeal?
TheVerge reads behind the Sunday Times’ firewall: The Sunday Times reports today that RIM is considering a plan to split its handset division and messaging network into two separate companies, and will...
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US Immigration and Customs Agency switching 17,600 employees from BlackBerry...
Reuters reported today that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ending its contract with RIM and purchasing $2.1 million worth of iPhones for its 17,600 employees: The agency said it...
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Samsung rumored to be making a ~$7.5B offer to buy BlackBerry…for its patents
Update: BlackBerry is denying the story: BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) (“BlackBerry”) is aware of certain press reports published today with respect to a possible offer by Samsung to...
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Former RIM CEO admits iPhone killed the BlackBerry
After passing “the baton to new leadership” three and a half years ago, ex-Research In Motion chief executive Jim Balsillie has publicly admitted in a new interview what everyone already knows: the...
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