by Tony Poulos | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Aug 3, 2011 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Apr 22, 2009 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Oct 15, 2008 | Blog
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…