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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will soon be ditching their BlackBerrys in favor of iPhones and iPads. We’ve seen several examples recently of large enterprises, even major multinationals like Halliiburton, going all-in on iOS, and it’s interesting to see the other half of BlackBerry’s traditional base, government, do likewise.
Halliburton, one of the world’s largest energy corporations with over 70,000 employees worldwide, will be making a huge move away from BlackBerrys, to converting their employees to iPhones. For those still not convinced about the iPhone and iOS’ place in enterprise, this decision comes after Halliburton did significant research into both Apple’s platform and the Android, and decided Apple was the way to go.
It’s actually happened — after bringing BlackBerry from pager to the top of the smartphone world only to see the iPhone and Android all but demolish their share, RIM today
According to Nielsen, the amount of all smartphones running iOS — namely the iPhone — rose from 30% to 37% over the last 3 months, compared to the share of all smartphones running Android OS — namely 8 googlezillion at last official count — rose from 46.3% to 51.7%.
While we often complain about Apple’s over-curation of the App Store, here’s a cautionary tale about what happens when a $500 BlackBerry App World “app” meets a CrackBerry.com founder left
RIM announced their Q3 2011 results today, including the bloodbath that is PlayBook sales, and clusterfrak that is BlackBerry 10 superphones not being available until late 2012.
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Apple had their big Let’s talk iPhone event a couple of weeks ago and have now released [iOS 5](http://www.tipb.com/iOS 5) and iCloud, and launched the iPhone 4S — now it’s RIM’s and Google’s turn.
CrackBerry.com’s [full review of the BlackBerry Torch 9860 full touch screen smartphone
Kevin Michaluk of sibling site CrackBerry.com has just posted his BlackBerry Torch 9860, and just like his
CrackBerry.com’s full review of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 touchscreen, QWERTY smartphone
Kevin Michaluk of sibling site CrackBerry.com has just posted his BlackBerry Bold 9900, with all the detail you’d
Apple opened a handful of new Apple Stores today, none more amusingly placed than the one in Waterloo, Ontario, the hometown of BlackBerry maker RIM. Starting today, anyone in Waterloo
