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BlackBerry Maker: Don't Give Up On Us Yet!

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada Business
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins is promising to restore the BlackBerry phone's stature as a trailblazing device even a...

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And The Canadian Smartphone Winner Is..

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.17.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Blackberry, Canada Wireless Market, Ipsos-Reid Smartphones Study, Tablet Market Canada, Canada Tablet Market, Canada Mobile Phone Market, Samsung, RIM BlackBerry, Wireless Canada, Apple Iphone Canada, Mobile Phone Canada, Wireless Market Canada, Research in Motion, Canada Business News

Canadians are flocking to buy smartphones running on Google’s Android platform, putting the operating system ahead of Apple and BlackBerry in the Ca...

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Finally, In 2012, BBM Takes Its Place As A Real, Live Word

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.13.2012 | Canada Living
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WATERLOO, Ont. - BlackBerry's instant messaging service has found a new home, nestled between BBL and bbq.The term BBM is being added to the latest ed...

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Will RIM's Road Show Sell Carriers On The New BlackBerry 10?

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada Business
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Some of Canada's biggest wireless carriers finally got a glimpse of the new BlackBerry smartphones this week, as part of Research In Motion's worldwid...

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More Pink Slips In Motion

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.01.2012 | Canada Business
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CORRECTION: In an Aug. 1 story about cost cutting at Research In Motion, The Canadian Press erroneously reported that online magazine Cantech Letter r...

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'Worst Time' For RIM To Lose A Lawsuit Says Analyst

CP | Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.14.2012 | Canada Business
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Just as the dust began to settle from a tumultuous annual meeting, Research In Motion was hit with another setback Friday as a northern California jur...

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Dark Days In Waterloo

CP | Linda Nguyen, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.29.2012 | Canada Business
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WATERLOO, Ont. - A day after Research in Motion Inc. (TSX:RIM) reported a more than a half billion dollar loss, those in the city where the Canadian t...

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This Way To Job Cuts

CP | Craig Wong, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.20.2012 | Canada Business
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BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) has begun the grim task of cutting jobs in a bid to save $1 billion as part of a plan to right the ...

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Was RIM Brought Down By An Identity Crisis?

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.03.2012 | Canada Business
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TORONTO - A brand strategy adviser hired by Research In Motion at the peak of the company's success says the BlackBerry maker was locked in an identit...

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What RIM's Failing Says About Canada

Jonathan Naymark | Posted 05.29.2012 | Canada Business
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Jonathan Naymark

Is it Canada itself which prevented the Blackberry from playing in the big-boy sandbox? No world domination please, we're Canadian. The Blackberry is like the technological version of Lester Pearson's peacekeepers, a fine and dandy tool during times of peace, but useless throughout a period of prolonged technological upheaval.

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A Match Made in Mobile Purgatory? Microsoft and RIM

Robert Whent | Posted 05.17.2012 | Canada
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Robert Whent

With the Blackberry maker RIM struggling today to stay relevant, I think it's time they join forces, hire some new interface designers and give Apple and Android a run for their money -- if they do it right.

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Not Many Suitors For RIM?

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.07.2012 | Canada Business
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MONTREAL - Research In Motion may not have many suitors at home or abroad especially with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's comments that he would like ...

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Marry Me, BlackBerry: A Valentine's Day Request

Kathy Buckworth | Posted 04.02.2012 | Canada Living
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Kathy Buckworth

It provides me with comfort, advice, laughs and, most importantly, companionship. The phenomenon is fairly easy to understand: Receiving an incoming email message is akin to having a note passed to you in class from the cutest boy in school. You have to look at it. Especially when you are in a situation where you can't.

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Who Is RIM's New CEO?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 01.23.2012 | Canada Business
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Who is Thorsten Heins? Late on Sunday, it was announced that Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, Research In Motion's co-CEOs and founders are stepping ...

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Business Newsmakers Of The Year: Notorious RIM

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.02.2012 | Canada Business
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MONTREAL - A long, slow slide into notoriety made 2011 a sorely trying year for Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the two men at the top of BlackBerry...

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Porn Access On BlackBerrys Under Review

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.19.2012 | Canada Business
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LONDON, United Kingdom -- BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) has been summoned to a meeting with the United Kingdom's telecommunications re...

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The Timbit Mightier Than The BlackBerry

The Huffington Post Canada | Ron Nurwisah | Posted 12.16.2011 | Canada Business
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It's not news that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has had a horrible year. But it seems that the once mighty smartphone maker has been beaten by ...

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Vote For The Biggest Canadian News Story Of 2011

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.08.2012 | Canada
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Earlier this week we asked you to tell us what were the biggest Canadian news stories of the year on Facebook, Twitter and our comments. We've rounded...

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HuffPost Canada's 2011 Losers

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 12.09.2011 | Canada
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For many, 2011 was a year they wanted to get back. We look at some Canadians who could have done better this year. 1. RESEARCH IN MOTION In Nove...

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Canada 'Still A BlackBerry Nation'

CP | Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada Business
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TORONTO - Google's share of the Canadian smartphone market doubled between June to September while Research in Motion and Apple slipped, according to ...

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RIM Shares Nosedive After Analyst Downgrades

CBC | Posted 11.21.2011 | Canada Business
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Shares in Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion fell more than six per cent Monday after an analyst scaled back his estimate for company earnings. ...

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RIM Shares Hit 6-Year Low

CBC | Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Business
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Shares in Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion hit a six-year low Tuesday on a day when markets sold off sharply on concerns about the European deb...

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RIM Sued Over BlackBerry Outage

CBC | Posted 12.26.2011 | Canada Business
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A Montreal law firm is launching a class action lawsuit against Research in Motion Ltd. on behalf of individuals who lost the use of thei...

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New Phones RIM's Last Chance To Compete With iPhone, Android

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.18.2011 | Canada Business
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Research In Motion has unveiled a new mobile operating system that will power its next-generation BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets to bette...

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Can RIM's Reputation Survive This PR Disaster?

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 12.13.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Blackberry, Public Relations, Blackberry Messenger, Jim Balsillie, Rim, Mike Lazaridis, Research in Motion, BlackBerry Outage, Video, Canada Business News

Could there be a more bitter irony than a company that built an empire on smartphones and instant messaging standing accused of being no good at commu...

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