RIM sues Motorola for blocking new hirings
Blackberry maker Research in Motion has filed a lawsuit against the US based mobile phone maker Motorola.
RIM is claiming that Motorola is blocking current and ex-employees from joining them.
The lawsuit further accuses Motorola of unfair competition.
Incidentally, this lawsuit comes just months after Motorola had filed a lawsuit against [...]
RIM to pay Nokia patent related royalties
World’s leading mobile phone maker Nokia has stated that Research in Motion would be paying it an up-front payment and royalties related to usage of its wireless technology patents.
Nokia said that RIM has just renewed a multi-year patent license agreement with it.
The details of the deal signed between [...]
Research In Motion wants to acquire Certicom
Makers of Blackberry smartphones, Research In Motion have announced their plans to offer an acquisition deal to encryption software company Certicom.
RIM is planning to offer C$1.50 a share in cash for a total value of about C$66 million for this company.
RIM said that their offer is a 76.5 [...]
Mformation Technologies suing Research in Motion for patent infringement
Mformation Technologies has announced that they have now filed a lawsuit against Research in Motion for patent infringement.
Research in Motion is the company behind the hugely popular Blackberry platform and mobile devices.
Mformation is claiming that RIM infringes on two of their owned patents in their products and [...]
Apple iPhone outselling RIM Blackberry in the market
Apple has said in a report that they have managed to sell more iPhones than RIM sold their Blackberry devices in the most recent quarter.
This is a major victory for Apple as they can now claim to be the leader of the smartphone market in USA.
The company added [...]
Palm a big loser yet again in the Smartphone market
There is no doubt that the Smartphone market is growing at a rapid pace. But Palm is not benefiting from it as rival companies continue to take away market share.
The company has now posted a fifth straight quarterly loss. The sales of their Treo and Centro [...]
BlackBerry gains in the US market
Market research firm IDC has reported that RIM’s Blackberry has gained some market share in the USA.
Blackberry increased its share of the U.S. Smartphone market in the first quarter of the year.
They managed to take away customers from rival companies like Apple.
Their research report said that Blackberry’s share [...]
RIM Blackberry selling in record numbers
When Apple announced their iPhone, market analysts had said that the mobile phone from Apple could hurt companies like Research in Motion.
However, RIM seems to gain from the increasing popularity of Smartphones as they are selling record number of Blackberry devices.
The company said that they shipped 14 million Smartphones last [...]
Research in Motion: Blackberry downtime due to system upgrade problem
Research in Motion has now stated the reason behind the recent outage of their services in the US market.
The company said that the problem was due to the failure of one of its recently upgraded systems.
The outage had lasted for several hours but the company maintains [...]
Research in Motion: Blackberry user’s data safe
Research in Motion has confirmed that their services were affected on Monday leaving their customers without any connectivity.
However, the company has now assured that no data was lost during this outage and all messages are safe on their servers.
Market sources claim that the problem lasted for as long as [...]
