RIM, on the edge of a precipice?
Poor old Research In Motion (RIM), purveyor of the once mercurial BlackBerry, are finding the going tough these days, and it looks like getting a lot tougher! To add to its recent less than scintillating sales performance, market percentage loss and failure of new models and iPad competitor such as the BlackBook to make any [...]
Wielding the knife becoming a popular pastime
I continue to be perturbed by headlines from the telecoms industry declaring staff cuts to reduce costs and improve profitability. Is there no other means to placate investors than to resort to such radical and life-disrupting means for people that have not necessarily failed in their jobs? Today’s workforce appears to have become a totally [...]
RIM avoids SIM in battle for control
In April 2009, RIM’s fledgling BlackBerry App World virtual storefront offered PayPal as its sole billing mechanism. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said back then, to the great relief of telcos, that it was working to introduce carrier billing options sometime in the future. Then, only last month, Vodafone announced at Mobile World Congress that it [...]
RIM Shows Respect
RIM co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, showed a lot of “respect” in a recent interview with Laptop magazine. When asked about the $2.99 the starting price for premium apps as opposed to 99 cents (like Apple’s AppStore) Lazaridis responded by explaining how the company’s respect for software developers went all the way to setting a high floor [...]
Microsoft to buy RIM?
The industry rumour mill is in overdrive as speculation mounts that Microsoft is about make a bid to buy Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the Blackberry. Read article…