New CEO for Research In Motion (RIM)
Canada's mobile giant Research In Motion (RIM) known for the BlackBerry resigned earlier this week after a year of lows for the company.
Smart phones exceeded sales PCs for Q4 2011
Vendors shipped 158.5 million smart phones in Q4 2011, up 57% on the 101.2 million units shipped in Q4 2010. This quarter took total global shipments for the whole of 2011 to 488.0 million units, up 63% on the 299.7 million smart phones shipped throughout 2010.
Payphones A New Option for Resellers
With the explosion in mobile phone technology dealers could be forgiven for thinking the days of traditional payphones are numbered, but not according to Jeff Wilkes who says when times are tough businesses are always looking for ways to save money, control costs and create a revenue stream.
Microsoft to buy Skype
Confounding expectations that it would be Facebook that eventually went for Skype, it has emerged yesterday that Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for US$8.5bn.
BlackBerry Message Service Disrupted
It has been a tough start to the week for Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), as their second major outage of the week affecting BlackBerry Internet Services continues to affect millions of users web and messaging capabilities.
The timing of these events does not work to RIM's favor, following the use of BBs in the (not so) petty thieving in the UK
