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RIM’s Co-CEO Team Out, New CEO In, What Can RIM Do To Survive?

18rim650 Unless you were busy watching yesterday's heart-pounding football action, you may have already read the reports surrounding RIM's Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie resignation from their positions as Co-CEOs. Taking over for Jim and Mike will be "little-known company insider," Thorsten Heins, formerly RIM's Chief Operating Officer. RIM is calling this "a board and... Read more »

(Updated) A Doozy Of A Rumor: RIM Looking At Samsung For Acquisition

rimheadquarters Update: In a statement provided by Reuters, a Samsung spokesperson said the company is not purchasing Research In Motion. The spokesperson did not address the reports that Samsung is considering licensing RIM software, or purchasing a portion of RIM's assets. Here's one rumor that's too hard to pass up posting… According to the folks at BGR, RIM is... Read more »

Microsoft, Facebook Among Eight Technology Companies Supporting AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Microsoft, Facebook Among Eight Technology Companies Supporting AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Microsoft joined with Facebook and 6 other technology companies in a filing to the FCC last night in a statement of support for the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.  The deals supporters include Yahoo, Oracle, Research in Motion and VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Partners. Their argument is pretty much summed up by saying that the proposed... Read more »

T-Mobile’s 2011 Roadmap Leaks With Blackberry, Tablets And Android Galore

roadmap Tip of the hat to the boys at This is my next as they just scored what they believe is a 2011 device lineup for T-Mobile. I guess the Samsung Hercules was just the tip of the iceberg for them today as they've uncovered some of the blanks we've been searching for ourselves through the end of 2011. We're going to follow their lead and do a month by month breakdown... Read more »

RIM Gives Some Love to Mac Users

RIM Gives Some Love to Mac Users For a long time Mac OSX users have been excluded from using BlackBerry Desktop Manager to manage their BlackBerry. However, now there is no need to purchase a PC to take advantage of the Desktop Manager.  Research in Motion (RIM) is officially releasing BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac! BlackBerry Desktop Manager software is designed to run on Mac computers... Read more »

RIM Officially “Torch’d”

RIM Officially “Torch’d” Good afternoon TmoNews readers! Today is a very important day for RIM (Research In Motion). RIM has officially acquired Torch Mobile. You know the developers behind the WebKit-powered Iris mobilebrowser. As you may already know the famous iPhone/iPod Touch Safari browser also use mobile WebKit. Not to mention the Android web browser also uses WebKit. So this could... Read more »