add a comment
1I like it!

RIM posts rare drop in BlackBerry subscriber growth

Research in Motion on Thursday saw a rare drop in subscriber growth when it reported its fiscal first quarter results, while shipment growth of its popular BlackBerry handsets apparently stalled.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Personal tech | 06/19/09 at 8:25 am |


1 comment
5I like it!

BlackBerry SurePress Technology Here to Stay

Recently leaked images of RIM's upcoming BlackBerry Storm successor, unofficially dubbed "Storm 2"--and a very early hands-on review--seemed to suggest that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) had decided to scrap the infamous "clicky" SurePress screen technology that set RIM's first touch BlackBerry apart from the pack.

| Opinion | Mobile & wireless | Personal tech | 06/01/09 at 9:38 am |


add a comment
I like it!

Apple and RIM gain as smartphone sales grow

Smartphone sales for the first quarter increased by 12.7 percent year on year, a bright spot in a depressed mobile phone market where overall sales dropped 9.4 percent. Research In Motion and Apple were the big winners as smartphone sales rose to 36.4 million units for the quarter, according to Gartner.

| News | Personal tech | 05/20/09 at 10:24 am |


add a comment
5I like it!

BlackBerry push API goes after consumers

RIM is injecting the power of its popular BlackBerry push technology into the consumer arena by letting third-party developers write applications that tap into it.



Free books

Essential JavaFX
Get started building rich Web apps quickly with an introduction to the power of JavaFX key features -- scene node graphs, nodes as components, the coordinate system, layout options, colors and gradients, custom classes with inheritance, animation, binding, and event handlers.Enter now!

The Nomadic Developer
Consulting can be hugely rewarding, but it's easy to fail if you are unprepared. To succeed, you need a mentor who knows the lay of the land. Aaron Erickson is your mentor, and this is your guidebook. Enter now!

Featured Sponsor

AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements. Find out how AISO leveraged AMD technology to overcome their challenge in this case study white paper.

In this whitepaper, Scalar explores the opportunity to change the landscape with respect to mission critical databases built around Oracle. Leveraging technologies such as Linux, high-end commodity processing power and Oracle RAC technology to architect, design, build and maintain database infrastructure that delivers maximum availability, reliability and performance at a fraction of traditional cost.

On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.

Marketplace