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Google-branded Android tablets go online - is this another win for Apple after BlackBerry retreat?

Google-branded Android tablets go online – is this another win for Apple after BlackBerry retreat?

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

All change at RIM's BlackBerry as it discovers the need for marketing - belatedly

All change at RIM’s BlackBerry as it discovers the need for marketing – belatedly

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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