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Manufacturer that’s meant to be dead is #1 UK Smartphone vendor for the 2nd year running (That’s RIM, in case you were wondering)

A bit of news in from RIM this afternoon that’s sure to a) keep the RIM UK team smiling and b) require a bit of a reset from the hordes declaring RIM-is-dead when it clearly isn’t: The latest results from data firm GfK show that BlackBerry® was the #1 selling smartphone in the British market [...]

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The “BlackBerry’s Dead” Myth: 4 out of 5 SMEs I called are staying with RIM for “foreseeable future”

I did my own BlackBerry research the other day. I must qualify this post’s headline — I called five SMEs to talk about their BlackBerry usage.  Each of the companies I called are British companies, they are all primarily engaged in the manufacturing industry and they all employ 25-500 people. I think I probably called [...]

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BlackBerry DevCon Europe: 50% ticket discount (and a free PlayBook!)

Here’s a rather useful offer for readers wanting to witness the birth of RIM’s next generation OS, BlackBerry 10. Over to the team at BlackBerry Europe: The inaugural BlackBerry® DevCon Europe 2012 takes place on February 7th and 8th in Amsterdam, and we want you to be there. By attending, you’ll be among the first [...]

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BlackBerry is still the fastest messaging experience bar none

I’m feeling pretty disappointed about the continual stories surrounding the BlackBerry platform. I’m such a huge fan that it’s rather painful to look into the abyss and consider, for example, a RIM takeover by Amazon or Microsoft. That said, my mind does then jump with excitement and the possibilities of what could be delivered as [...]

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James Murdoch takes the BlackBerry “More?” defence

If you’ve been following the newspaper hacking scandal, you’ll no doubt have caught the recent admission from James Murdoch: Apparently he did receive that email — but since he received it on his BlackBerry, he didn’t read the whole email. This is a reasonable argument. I’ve done this many times. Sometimes if you’ve got poor [...]

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Thousands queue for RIM’s Bold 9790 in Jakarta

Thousands of people in Jakarta, Indonesia, clearly haven’t got the BlackBerry-is-dead memo. I think I’m still right in saying that BlackBerry is still the #1 selling smartphone in the UK, along with dozens of other territories. Arguments like, “Yeah but it’s students buying them,” or “No, but” or “Yes but” don’t count. In many countries, [...]

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Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and killing the BlackBerry app

Right then, have a read of this — it’s direct from the Google blog post announcing their Gmail apps for iOS: Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much everywhere these days. And when we do, we want easy access to our important messages so we can respond [...]

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A serious problem for me, Google and BlackBerry

I just found out that on 22nd of November, Google is going to discontinue their Gmail App for BlackBerry. This is a serious, serious problem for me. Ultra serious. Let me explain. I have 12GB of email in my personal Google Apps account. I have 7GB in my Mobile Industry Review Google Apps account. I [...]

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DevCon Video: Sean from Perfecto Mobile

It’s time for another one of the video interviews I conducted at last week’s BlackBerry DevCon. This time I’m featuring Sean, one of the chaps from mobile services firm, Perfecto Mobile. In this video Sean gives us an overview of the company’s key offerings (in particular, application testing, scripting and monitoring). Over to Sean:

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Got Office 365? Excellent, you get BlackBerry services free of charge

The business cloud services space is hotting up big time. Google’s been at it for quite a while with Google Apps and they’ve recently been joined by Microsoft’s Office365… which is getting rather compelling. I’ve checked it out and I found it pretty smart — indeed I remember commenting that if Office365 offered BlackBerry service [...]

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DevCon Video: Nimrod Cohen from Search 4 BBM

Here’s an interview from last week’s BlackBerry DevCon Americas event. It features Nimrod Cohen, top man at Search 4 BBM, discussing his all new search facility for BlackBerry Messenger profiles. Over to Nimrod:

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BlackBerry DevCon: RIM’s fighting strong

I was really looking forward to BlackBerry’s DevCon Americas event last week. I was especially interested to take the temperature of the RIM team and the BlackBerry hopeful. I wasn’t sure what I’d encounter. If you believe any of the media stories circulating recently, RIM is toast. The service outage didn’t help the company’s reputation. [...]

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