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RIM may have been behind Apple store Wake Up flashmob

By Simon Sage, Monday, Apr 30, 2012 a 10:49 am

Some additional investigation into the "Wake Up" flashmob that happened at Australia Apple stores last week reveal it may actually be BlackBerry and Research In Motion behind the stunt.

RIM's Jim Balsillie wanted to open doors to BBM on iOS

By Simon Sage, Friday, Apr 13, 2012 a 10:32 am

Rumor has it that RIM's recently-resigned co-CEO and board member, Jim Balsillie, sought a drastic plan to open up their infrastructure to wireless service providers, and allow competing platforms, like iOS, to run data through it. That would enable many signature BlackBerry services, namely BBM, to run on iPhone.

RIM launches first iOS app: BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Client

By Simon Sage, Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012 a 1:20 pm

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion today launched their first iPhone app. It's nothing particularly flashy, as you might expect, but Mobile Fusion marks their foray into cross-platform enterprise device management.

RIM complains about Apple stacking vote for nano-SIM standard

By Simon Sage, Friday, Mar 30, 2012 a 1:54 pm

Despite offering to license the nano-SIM standard royalty-free, Apple is getting flak from RIM for recruiting additional proxies in the voting process. Nokia had made similar complaints when Apple initially made the proposal to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

iPhone shipments surpass BlackBerry in Canada

By Simon Sage, Thursday, Mar 22, 2012 a 1:59 pm

RIM is losing grip on its own turf, as Apple has surpassed iPhone shipments compared to BlackBerry in Canada, according to recent IDC data. Current estimates place RIM's 2011 sales in Canada at 2.08 million, versus the 2.85 million iPhones sold in the Great White North

Apple pushing nano-SIM standard on Motorola, RIM and Nokia

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012 a 11:00 am

Apple is butting heads with RIM, Motorola, and Nokia over the next evolution of SIM card sizes. After paving the way for the micro-SIM format, which has since been adopted by Nokia for their Lumia series, Apple is now putting pressure on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to recognize their nano-SIM format as the next industry standard.

US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ditching BlackBerry in favor of iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 a 10:58 pm

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will soon be ditching their BlackBerrys in favor of iPhones and iPads. They will continue to support the BlackBerry platform until May 12, 2012 according to a memo issues February 3rd.

Huge energy corporation, Halliburton ditching BlackBerry for iPhone

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Feb 6, 2012 a 5:15 pm

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.