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RIM CEO upbeat about BlackBerry's future
News Co-chief Jim Balsillie tells San Francisco tech confab he's confident RIM will increase subscriber numbers.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, BlackBerry
Security pest found on BlackBerry
News The malicious software could be used to get into company networks, but RIM says it's not a major threat.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Security, Viruses and worms, BlackBerry, SMB
RIM to move into Australia, Asia
News Research In Motion continued its expansion into new countries and said that its BlackBerry service would be available in Australia and Asia through its partner Singapore Telecommunications' wireless network.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications
High costs kill off London Underground mobile plans
News Mobile phones on the London Underground are not commercially viable.
Tags: Network infrastructure, O2 Plc., Mobile, Cell Phone, Wireless, Glasgow, Waterloo, Transport For London, Tube, phone
Researchers build 'flying' micro-robot
News The robot, which weighs about three-hundredths of an ounce, is manipulated by magnetic fields and has the potential for use in clean rooms or hazardous environments.
Tags: Hardware, Ontario, Micro-robot, magnetic field, Environment, laser, robot, researcher, University of Waterloo, camera
RIM tempers earnings forecast
News The announcement seems to confirm suspicions that the BlackBerry maker is adding subscribers at the expense of profit margins.
Tags: Smart phones, Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, iSuppli Corp., Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Bold, Wireless, Stock
Yahoo's Zimbra e-mail program exposes passwords
News Enterprising Canadian programmer exposes privacy issue for people using Zimbra to access Yahoo Mail during Yahoo university hack event.
Tags: Privacy, E-mail clients, Zimbra, Security, Yahoo! Inc., Password, Yahoo! Mail, e-mail, University of Waterloo, Internet
Microsoft's grant has strings attached?
News The company sets up a US$10 million fund to support research and development at Canadian universities--with a required course in a Microsoft programming language.
The iPhone eyes BlackBerry's turf
News But Apple still has a ways to go to catch up with RIM in the lucrative corporate market.
Tags: Mac OS, Smart phones, BlackBerry, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., phone, software, Apple iPhone, U.S.
Gates to students: Microsoft wants you
News Bill Gates preached the "magic of software" to a packed ballroom at Howard University and said it's up to today's generation of college students to drive innovation in the future.
Tags: Memory, Notebooks and tablets, Software, Search, Recruiting
RIM makes sweet plans for BlackBerry future
News Research In Motion is planning to take its popular mobile device one step further with more colors and improvement in battery life, a senior executive says.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless e-mail devices, Smart phones, PDA phones, Cellular phones
Opening closed minds to open source
News Richard French, senior VP of the Open Source Development Network, takes a realistic approach to where open source software is applicable today.
Google scientist to demo quantum computer
News Dr Hartmut Neven is to participate in a demo by start-up D-Wave Systems of a device claimed to be the first practical quantum computer.
RIM signals margin squeeze ending
News Research In Motion's stock soared on the news that profit margin pressure is expected to ease, despite competition from Apple.
Tags: BlackBerry, Mobile platforms, Mobile/Wireless, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Small Business, Stock, Sales
RIM shows off BlackBerry with Wi-Fi
News in brief Research In Motion demonstrated at the Gartner ITXPO Symposium that a BlackBerry device that can support voice over Internet Protocol over an 802.11b-based wireless network.
Tags: Handhelds, 802.11/Wi-Fi
