Research in Motion News

Research In Motion Ltd unveiled the BlackBerry Q5 smartphone at the company's annual BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando, Florida.

Research In Motion Ltd generated some buzz coming out of its BlackBerry Live conference in Florida last week with several of its announcements, which basically can be capsulized into the company changing its focus to becoming a software and services company rather than an "ecosystem" company that features hardware and native applications.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) With an expanding app platform, the Canadian device maker now looks to regain the market share The mood was somber about 12 months ago when erstwhile Research In Motion took the bull by the horns to announce a new platform based on QNX.

When I learned about BlackBerry's acquisition of QNX in 2011, I was admittedly curious about who these folks were and how the BlackBerry 10 OS was "built on a QNX OS." What was it that Research in Motion, and at the time, Mike Lazaridis, saw in this developer of UN operating systems? In recent interviews, Thorsten Heins lauded QNX for providing the ... (more)

Twenty years ago, no one would have believed the Kitchener-Waterloo area would blossom into the most vibrant technology start-up community in Canada - the Silicon Valley of the North.

However, the brokerage firm also lifted its price target for the stock to $70 from $56. Despite Sodastream International Ltd's technical prowess, bearish speculation toward the equity remains alive and well.

Lazaridis is now completely disconnected from RIM, which now operates as BlackBerry, other than being a shareholder.

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Heins predicted that computer users would become increasingly dependent on a single computing device, such as a smartphone docked into a workstation, for all their daily tasks.

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Research In Motion unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets on Tuesday, stepping up its efforts to regain market share lost to Apple's iPhone and Android devices powered by Google's software.

CEO Thorsten Heins will give a keynote speech on Tuesday in Orland which may give clues to the future of the company's products.

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U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Wednesday, indicating the S&P 500 may hold near its most recent record high, ahead of data on inflation and manufacturing.

Research in Motion President and Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins introduces a new RIM Blackberry 10 device during their launch in New York January 30, 2013 The BlackBerry Q5 smartphone sports a re-engineered and newly designed keypad for faster typing and boasts a 3.1-inch LCD screen with 720x720p HD display powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core ... (more)

RIM's official product news drew scant headlines compared with the huge financial donation committed by Mike Lazaridis to a new nano lab in Waterloo, Ont.

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The trek by 24-year-old Ryan Chalmers, who is scheduled to be in Kansas City on Tuesday, aims to inspire people with disabilities and raise money for charity.

U.S. futures are down for a second day, following markets overseas, after indexes across the globe set a blistering pace over the past several weeks.