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Is BlackBerry Dying?

April 7, 2023 By 901am

We’ve been reporting about the number of corporate clients that BlackBerry has been losing over the last few months, and this has been further confirmed by a study that IT research company InformationWeek recently conducted.

According to this new study, only seven percent of IT administrators are planning to increase their usage of RIM products. The study was conducted among 530 technology processionals. This result is just a grim reminder of what we have been seeing all these months. BlackBerry is dying. [Read more…]

Originally posted on February 27, 2012 @ 9:11 am

Filed Under: BlackBerry, rim Tagged With: BlackBerry, rim, smartphones

Government Agency To Ditch BlackBerry Devices

April 7, 2023 By 901am

The number of Blackberry users jumping ship at the corporate level is getting more and more significant. Just this week, Halliburton announced that it will be ditching the Blackberry as the preferred communication device in the company in favor of iPhones and iPads. Now the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced that it will begin deploying iPhones and iPads to its employees by May, replacing the Blackberry devices that the Agency’s employees used to use.

According to a report by Bloomberg, About 3,000 of the Agency’s 20,000 fulltime workers and contractors use a BlackBerry device. The report failed to mention how many of the workers will be getting the new Apple products. [Read more…]

Originally posted on February 10, 2012 @ 7:12 pm

Filed Under: BlackBerry, rim Tagged With: BlackBerry, rim

Lawsuit Filed For RIM’s Use of BBM Brand

April 7, 2023 By 901am

The amount of lawsuits that we’ve been reporting here at 901AM is getting to be quite a lot. But then lawsuits are very interesting news to say the least. We’ve reported significantly about the constant exchange of lawsuits between Samsung and Apple. So any new lawsuits are kind of a breath of fresh air.

For example, Research in Motion is also embroiled in some legal kinks. A company, BBM Canada, has filed a lawsuit against RIM claiming the mobile phone manufacturer and service provider is infringing on the trademark of BBM Canada by using “BBM”, which stands for Blackberry Messenger, which is RIM’s very popular mobile messenger service that is used by Blackberry phone users all over the world. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 26, 2011 @ 1:23 pm

Filed Under: BlackBerry, Lawsuit, rim Tagged With: BBM, BlackBerry, BlackBerry Messenger, Lawsuit, Research in Motion

Hardware Failure Rate Highest Among Android Phones

April 7, 2023 By 901am

Android has suffered a serious knock with news that it is more unreliable compared to the iPhone and BlackBerry.

In a study conducted by WDS, a company that provides specialist managed services for the wireless industry, it was discovered that Android phones were more likely to suffer from hardware problems compared iOS, Blackberry and Windows 7 devices.

The study was conducted over the course of a year and focused on customer service support calls. About 600,000 tech support calls were part of the study. Of that number, 14 percent were calls for Android phones that suffered a hardware failure. This is followed closely by Windows phones, which accounted for 11 percent of the calls. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 4, 2011 @ 9:47 am

Filed Under: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Microsoft, Smartphones Tagged With: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Microsoft, smartphones, windows

RIM Offers Freebies To Appease Irate Subscribers

April 7, 2023 By 901am

The global service outage that happened to the Blackberry network that lasted for several days to a week recently was not just a disaster in terms of service for Research in Motion, the company behind the Blackberry, it also created a huge public relations problem for the company, putting it in an extremely bad light. The people at RIM realizes that this is indeed a big public image problem for the company and is trying to find ways to appease irate Blackberry users. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 18, 2011 @ 12:10 pm

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: App Store, BlackBerry, blackberry apps, rim

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