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RIM Acquired JayCut to Provide a New Services in The Playbook

Posted by on July 26, 2011 No comments

RIM Acquired JayCut 300x237 RIM Acquired JayCut to Provide a New Services in The PlaybookTo meet the challenge of their rivals in the tablet market, the owner of BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM), acquired company video editing Sweden JayCut. The company will work the various functions of Playbook tablet.

“Working with our JayCut add editing capabilities for video on the BlackBerry platform. They can enrich the consumer media experience with BlackBerry,” wrote RIM CTO David Yach on RIM’s official blog.

Quoted by Reuters, RIM does not mention this as an acquisition. But it is clear that with this agreement, seven employees of the Stockholm-based company is licensing its online video editor for users of RIM gadget. Read more »

Rumor : RIM has Decreased Revenues in This Year

Posted by on June 18, 2011 No comments

Rumor : RIM has Decreased Revenues in This YearIt turns out the RIM big names as a manufacturer of smartphone technology is not directly proportional to the achievements this year. Analysts who assess business performance Research In Motion (RIM) fell below forecasts, said the ultimate goal of the BlackBerry maker should be alert to any problems that may befall him.

Recently, RIM has begun to attract consumers because of the difficulties phone is not considered “sexy”, especially when compared with its main competitor, the iPhone and Android smartphones. Analysts rate, achieving RIM shows how Canadian companies are struggling to compete with the iPhone and Android smartphones.

As you know, with BlackBerry, RIM dominates the gadget smartphone market is recognized in business circles. Companies in the first quarter of fiscal year 2012 is the distribution of 13.2 million BlackBerry and then widening their appeal to consumers in a wider audience. Read more »

BlackBerry PlayBook – Inconsistently

Posted by on May 18, 2011 No comments

BlackBerry PlayBook Inconsistently Apparently, an ambitious project of the tire is not running smoothly, BlackBerry PlayBook reality is not as perfect as expected. Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is withdrawn from the market or up to 1,000 tablets Playbook BlackBerry market. The withdrawal must be done, and found errors in the software component (software) after a month of its launch.

Ontario-based company in this state, the tablet of BlackBerry products, which are operating system problems that ultimately make software does not run correctly. Fortunately, most of these products still exist in the hands of dealers rather than in circulation in the hands of consumers. RIM said to replace the problematic devices with a better device.

RIM really started to aggressively sell the tablets of the product after the BlackBerry smartphone continues to slowing demand. In addition, RIM also cut its profit target this year, slowing demand for smartphones. The withdrawal of the product to be a setback for RIM in the sale of the tablets when the ambition of overtaking its main competitor is Apple iPad and tablet-based.

Microsoft Bing Used in BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted by on May 10, 2011 No comments

Adobe not only become close partners appeared in the opening scene of RIM BlackBerry 2011 World in Orlando, Florida, USA. Surprisingly, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has also appeared before about 6,000 attendees accompanied the Co-CEO at Research In Motion (RIM), Mike Lazaridis.

The timing was actually used RIM to announce a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The most important announcement is Microsoft Bing will become the default search engine in tablet BlackBerry Playbook has begun to circulate in the market since April 2011. Similarly for Microsoft mapping service.

Not only in the form of tablets Playbook application only. Steve Ballmer said Bing also be fully integrated to the operating system level using the latest BlackBerry smartphone.

This cooperation would be examined. Through cooperation with Microsoft, RIM does not need to issue a direct investment to complement the characteristics of the devices, especially in terms of Internet search engine and digital maps. RIM also ensure Playbook will soon be able to run Android applications.

However, until now one of the pillars of RIM is its full support for Adobe technologies like Flash. In the BlackBerry World 2011, Shantanu Narayen (President and CEO of Adobe Systems) and Danny Winokur (vice president of the Flash runtime Adobe Systems) was present opening statements. Apple is strong in tablet and smartphone market that want to support Flash at all, and develop other standards for multimedia content.

Samsung Dominate a Smartphone Market Sales

Posted by on May 10, 2011 No comments

A recent report by research firm IDC shows that the smartphone market grew 80% worldwide during the first quarter of 2011. The number of units shipped (shipping) came to 99.6 million in the last three months, compared with 55.4 million the same quarter last year.

Nokia is still the first place with 24.3 % share of smartphone market with 24.2 million units. This achievement was above its market share in a business smartphone that only 21.5 %  from a year ago.

Secondly there was a change. Apple who was in second place beyond the Research In Motion (RIM). Apple was able to distribute 18.7 million units of smartphones that 18.7 market share, compared with 8.7 last year.

RIM is actually an increase in unit volume of smartphones which includes 13.9 million units from 10.6 million units last year. However, its market share fell from 19.1 percent the first quarter last year to 14 percent this year.

Samsung became a producer enjoyed growth of smartphones. How didistribusikannya no units from 2.4 million in the first quarter 2010 to 10.8 million in the first quarter 2011 so that you can overcome HTC. This HTC years actually also experienced a growth in the number of units released smartphones, but lost to Samsung as only 2.7 to 8.9 million. Read more »

Now Angry Birds use Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology

Posted by on May 6, 2011 No comments

Now Angry Birds use Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology Angry Birds will be provided free with free on Nokia phones based on Symbian C7 which is equipped with NFC chips. C7 phones will automatically play once the upgrade to the latest Symbian platform called Anna. Nokia is updating the Symbian software products from Nokia for the type C7 could adopt this technology.

Nokia and Rovio Angry Birds develop a new version that offers better gaming experience with technical support, Near Field Communication (NFC). Transfer of short-range wireless data will not be used to carry out payment transactions, but to connect the user wildfowl angry two different phones.

“C7 is just the beginning. We want to create an open ecosystem that means that it will partner with banks, payment services, and others,” says Sixten Sandstroem, Nokia Manager is responsible for the development of this technology are as reported by Bloomberg.

C7 Nokia users can enjoy the game with the Magic angry birds free to first 5 levels. To play at a higher level, you should find another player with a mobile phone equipped with NFC technology. Stay activate the game and hold each other, five the next level will open. To open the next five levels of play, users must perform the same steps with the owners of other similar phones. Read more »

The New BlackBerry Bold,Touch Screen and QWERTY

Posted by on May 3, 2011 No comments

The New BlackBerry Bold,Touch Screen and QWERTYResearch In Motion (RIM) announced a new smartphone models, Bold 9900 and 9930. Both models are identical for different nets. Model 9900 for GSM, while the 9930 for CDMA. It looked like any other series Bold. However, not only with the QWERTY keyboard, a touch screen BlackBerry this.

BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 is also the first smartphone to use the BlackBerry operating system 7. The shape is similar to the series in bold, in general, but is thinner, with only 10.5 mm thick or thinner model BlackBerry smartphone so far.

“The BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry Bold new OS inspired seven million consumers around the world who want the best combination of performance, functionality and style,” said Mike Lazaridis, RIM co-CEO.

BlackBerry OS 7 offers a new experience to add comfort and satisfaction. For example, faster browsing, there are additional search function with sound, you can manage personal and corporate content separately, and can arrange a personal request with office applications for the security of sensitive data. Read more »

The Greatest Tablet – Blackberry Playbook

Posted by on April 29, 2011 No comments

The Greatest Tablet Blackberry PlaybookAccording to analysts quoted by the Wall Street Journal sites, Research In Motion (RIM) is expected to distribute 2 million to 4 million BlackBerry Playbook in 2011. However, analyst firm Gartner predicted that tablet is not going to generate sales, both in comparison with the iPad or tablet based on Android.

A recent report published by Gartner, April 11, 2011 shows, in 2015, IOS Apple platform will dominate the market for the tablet with 47.1 %, 38.6 % of Android, and QNX (RIM) 10 %. The rest of the web OS 3 %, Meego 1%  and another 0.2%.

Coming a few weeks before the BlackBerry World Conference to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, 3-5 May 2011, the BlackBerry playbook finally officially distributed. Tablets made by Research In Motion began to be enjoyed by consumers in Canada, on Tuesday (04/19/2011).

“It takes time and effort even more difficult for RIM to attract developers and provide ecosystem of applications and services that are appropriate for QNX be competing with the IOS and Android, Read more »