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...

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...

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...