The Lakers came in with a nine-game regular season winning streak against New Orleans, but when Howard's rim-rattling dunk gave Los Angeles an 8-4 lead, that was the largest lead the Lakers would have until the final seconds.
Not to mention the fact that Gartner doesn't have such high expectations for QNX's tablet market share, nor RIM's long-term smartphone position -- and IDC indicates much of the same.
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We're not sure why the Wall Street Journal just posted up a piece talking about BlackBerry OS 6.0 and the Bold 9800 QWERTY slider as though we haven't been running leaked pictures and videos of them for months now, but whatever -- the story also apparently confirms RIM's Foleo-like tablet plans and says the device could be out by the end of the year.
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At the Las Vegas office of one prepaid-card shop, Hi-Rim, a colleague of Pavlo's showed up to demand payment--and a Hi-Rim official threatened to go get his gun, the colleague says.
He once, memorably, halted an interview with the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones after being asked about RIM's policy on user privacy in the Middle East.
Sadly, it's not over: BBM Canada, a Toronto-based broadcast industry group that has used the BBM moniker in one way or another for six decades, wants to reclaim its name -- used and made popular by RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service -- and has filed a lawsuit against the phone maker for trademark infringement.
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The agreement ends a lawsuit from Virginia-based NTP, which alleged that RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail service infringed upon their patents.
The hearing was part of an ongoing a lawsuit from Virginia-based NTP , which alleges that RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail service infringes upon its patents.
Don't get us wrong -- we applaud RIM's efforts to officially enter into the dangerous world of 140-character social networking -- but when it comes to a integrating a service that can dominate your life with a device that's intended to simplify it, efficiency isn't just important, it's vital.
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This upgrade for the Playbook - RIM's first foray into the tablet market - also sees built-in calendar and contacts functions added, as well as tighter integration with social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn.
In June, Motorola settled a patent dispute with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. over key technology found in RIM's smartphones, with RIM agreeing to make a one-time payment and continuing royalties in exchange for a halt to the litigation.
Palm hopes to broaden the Foleo's market by giving it an open Linux-based operating system that allows developers to tinker with it so it can be paired with other companies' smart phones, including Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) Q and RIM's BlackBerrys.
Microsoft wants to replace RIM's e-mail software with its own version, which it offers for free.
RIM's co-chief executives, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, could also be huge obstacles to a deal.
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More and more companies are offering employees their choice of devices, and despite RIM's better-than-estimated latest financials, it'll eventually need to see the writing on the wall.
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BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 re-invents RIM's EMM by bringing together device management, industry leading security, and mobile applications management for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, and new BlackBerry 10 smartphones in a consolidated solution.
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Yeah, well, get used to the name -- it's just sued RIM, Apple and Palm for violating ten patents on things like detecting the difference between silence and voices, mobile device power management, and altering music to accommodate voices.
"With strong results and momentum from our recent product introductions, as well as growing excitement from our partners and customers around upcoming smartphone, tablet, software and service offerings, we are setting the stage for continuing success, " said RIM's Co-CEO Jim Balsillie.
For a platform billing itself as the business user's best friend, BlackBerry's list of unsupported protocols that have achieved ubiquity is actually astonishing: you can't do two-way read status sync with an IMAP email account, for example, and amazingly, you can't natively connect to an Exchange ActiveSync service without being routed through RIM's back-end software.
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While we don't really agree with Toeman's assertion that "SlingPlayer Mobile is a complementary product" to the carriers' proprietary video offerings, he convincingly argues that Sling- and Orb-like services, combined with Windows Mobile's newfound push-email functionality, could help lure RIM-devotees away from their precious Crackberries.
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In 1997, Shrake set up a subsidiary in Nevada called Pacific Rim Exploration, Inc. as a U.S.-based company to act as the exploration arm of Pacific Rim.
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Representing Uruk's mass-produced goods are beveled-rim bowls that were made using molds and often used for workers' rations.
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Mr. Heins said those fees, which represent more than one-third of RIM's revenue, fell in the "single digits" in the quarter.
The collaboration resulted in RIM's first touch-screen device, the Storm.
But RIM's fast growth -- its share of the global smart-phone market has jumped to 15.9% from 6.9% since 2006, according to research firm Gartner -- left it short-handed and straining to meet the demands of various carrier partners.
At that moment, I realized the problem that's been plaguing RIM as of late -- and not just in its tablet strategy, but its phone strategy as a whole: it doesn't know who its products are for and subsequently can't deliver.
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Apple just announced that it's sold 6.9 million of 'em during its financial fourth quarter, beating out the 6.1 million total first-gen iPhones sold in the previous five quarters -- and beating RIM's total sales this quarter, which Apple seems excited about.
New York's Raymond Felton grabbed the rebound, and after a 20-second timeout, Anthony's long jumper hit the rim and it went into overtime.
It's a clever solution to lugging around a separate keyboard or specialized case, but it's hard to say if RIM will implement what it's learning into a finished product -- the firm isn't in the best position to experiment with new tablet concepts, and we've already seen a few imminent solutions to the concealed keyboard problem from other vendors.
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