By Stuart Smith on March 31, 2012
Unmistakable stress signs among competitors appear to herald a tectonic shift in the smartphone sector in favour of Apple. One rival RIM – maker of Blackberry – has retired hurt from the consumer ring. Another, Apple’s principal adversary in the field, is having to carefully rethink its ‘open-door’ strategy. No surprise, perhaps, that the cracks [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged android, apple, BlackBerry, google, htc, iPad, Jim Balsillie, kindle fire, nexus one, online sales, rim, smartphones, tablets, Thosten Heins
By Staff on January 23, 2012
Stricken Canadian mobile company Research in Motion (RIM) which makes BlackBerry has dumped its two joint chairmen and CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie and replaced them with COO Thorsten Heins (pictured) who joined from Siemens in 2007. Heins’ job is doubtless to get some of Blackberry’s long-promised new products off the production line but [...]
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