Tag archive: Mike Lazaridis

It's been a bumpy week for RIM. On Sunday, the Canadian smartphone maker's co-CEOs tried their best to quietly resign and hand over the CEO position to their former Chief Operating Officer, Thorsten Heins. For months, investors and journalists have been calling for Research in Motion's co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis — who have each taken turns running the company since it was founded in 1991 — to step… Read More

A new report in the Financial Post claims that Canada's Research in Motion is getting ready to shuffle its corporate structure, potentially stripping its co-CEO's of their de-facto roles as chairmen of the company board and installing an independent director as chair. And the leading candidate appears to be Barbara Stymiest, a current independent director on RIM's board. Stymiest recently retired as chief operating officer and… Read More

Around the world, and now in the United States, BlackBerry services have been going out for millions of users since Oct. 9. The problem, RIM says, is a “core switch failure” and cascading failures and backlog that have clogged up their system, delaying email and BlackBerry Messenger service for most users. In the last day or so, RIM has gotten around to making apologies and better explaining what's going on. Today, in a… Read More

Everything seems to be going badly for Research In Motion. To kick off the season of suckitude, the company on Thursday reported its first quarter earnings – $4.9 billion in revenue and $695 million in profit. That may not sound bad. But it's actually worse than even the already-lowered analyst forecasts for the company. RIM says that it expects the downward spiral to continue into the second quarter, which will result in even worse… Read More

Mike Lazaridis, CEO of Research in Motion, showed off the smartphone company's first tablet at the Adobe Max conference. Named “PlayBook,” the device is intended to compete with the iPad and growing number of Android tablets hitting the market. Video is below. The PlayBook was announced in early August and makes use of a new operating system dubbed BlackBerry Tablet OS from QNX, which the veteran smartphone company hopes will… Read More

Canada's Research in Motion has formally introduced its new BlackBerry Tour smartphone, which the company hopes will appeal to anybody who takes their business—or their lives—on the road. The new smartphone falls somewhere in between RIM's consumer-friendly BlackBerry Curve and corporate-oriented BlackBerry Bold, and aims at travelers with high-speed 3G EV-DO Rev A network support (think Verizon and Sprint) along… Read More

Can’t get enough of Facebook? Have a Blackberry? Then you’re in luck. Yesterday Research In Motion introduced Facebook for Blackberry Smartphones, meaning you can access the social network wherever you are.   Unveiled at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show in San Francisco, it’s a free download  software application that allows users to get straight ontoFacebook from their phones. T-Mobile will be the… Read More

Blackberry maker Research In Motion announced today that it is developing a new BlackBerry application suite for devices running Windows Mobile 6, intended to offer a “virtual BlackBerry experience” including Web browsing, “push” email, address book, calendars, instant messaging, and even run third party BlackBerry applications. According to RIM, the BlackBerry suite will complement rather than replace existing… Read More

Its name might sound like part of the title for a new Disney film with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom film, but Canada's Research in Motion today announced its new Blackberry Pearl multimedia phone will be available next week from U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile, this time aiming to appeal to the consumer market rather than movers and shakers in corporate board rooms and government bureaucracies. Touted as being small and stylish while… Read More

Intel announced today that it has signed an extensive technology agreement with Canada's Research in Motion (RIM) to supply processors for future Blackberry products. RIM plans to use Intel's forthcoming PXA9xx cellular processor, codenamed "Hernon" for forthcoming Blackberry devices which will connect to high-speed Enhanced Data Rated for Global Evolution (EDGE) network. EDGE is an advanced data technology for GSM… Read More

SureType effectively converges a phone keypad and a QWERTY keyboard to fit elegantly within the size constraints of a traditional mobile phone form factor. Through an integrated keyboard and software system, SureType provides users with an instinctively familiar look and feel and allows them to dial phone numbers and type messages quickly, accurately and comfortably. “Mobile professionals are torn between their need for a device that… Read More

From RIM's press release: T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry 7100t in the United States and announced an early October delivery. Consumers will be able to check out the device in action tomorrow at the grand opening of T-Mobile's 1,000th retail store in San Francisco. “T-Mobile has made it a priority to provide its customers with phones and services that not only meet their… Read More