RIM Marketing Chief's Exit Prompts Stock DropPCWorld - Chris Nerney - Mar 5, 2011"Personal reasons," along with "to pursue other opportunities," is corporate-speak for a hit job, a firing. So we can safely assume that Research in Motion chief marketing officer Keith Pardy was asked to leave the company ... |
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RIM Loses Marketing ChiefWall Street Journal - Phred Dvorak, Stuart Weinberg - Mar 5, 2011BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Friday its chief marketing officer has decided to leave the companyâ€"just weeks ahead of one of its most significant product rollouts in years. RIM, based in Waterloo, ... |
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RIM marketing chief to leaveBusinessWeek - Mar 5, 2011The chief marketing officer of Research in Motion Ltd., the company that makes Blackberry smart phone devices, is leaving the company. Keith Pardy's departure comes as the company, based in Waterloo, Ontario, gears up to launch its PlayBook tablet ... |
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A Serious Challenge to iPad2Barron's - Jay Palmer - Mar 5, 2011From a tech viewpoint, the big news last week came Wednesday from San Francisco, where, with its usual splash and style, Apple (ticker: AAPL) unveiled the iPad2. The specs were as expectedâ€"it's thinner, ... |
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Marketing boss walks away from RIMOttawa Citizen - Mar 5, 2011Chief marketing officer Keith Pardy has decided to leave Research In Motion Ltd. for personal reasons, the Waterloo-based company said Friday. The announcement comes just weeks before the expected launch of RIM's highly anticipated Black-Berry PlayBook ... |
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Tech Notebook: Android vs. iPhone: Is Google the smartphone leader? Is Apple?San Jose Mercury News - Frank Michael Russell, Mike Swift - Mar 5, 2011Is Google the smartphone leader? Is Apple? How about BlackBerry maker Research In Motion? According to a report this week from industry researcher Nielsen, they all are! Nielsen tallied the number of US consumers ... |
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RIM to find new marketing chief to revive its brandReuters - Tobias Schwarz, Alastair Sharp - Mar 4, 2011Visitors pass an advertising banner showing a Blackberry mobile at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover March 2, 2011. TORONTO (Reuters) - The head of marketing for Research In Motion will leave the company in six months, raising questions about ... |
Should BBM break free of the BlackBerry?Financial Post - Mar 4, 2011Rumour has it that Canada's smartphone maker is planning to bring its signature BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) platform to the open smartphone market. In a widely replicated story posted to the Boy Genius Report blog Thursday morning, “multiple trusted ... |
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RIM Slips: CMO Departing, Says DJBarron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - Mar 4, 2011Shares of Research in Motion (RIMM) are under pressure after a Dow Jones's Newswires story by Phred Dvorak just now said that the company's chief marketing officer, Keith Pardy, is stepping down for personal reasons. ... |
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Research In Motion Marketing Chief to Leave for Personal ReasonsBloomberg - Amy Thomson - Mar 4, 2011Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry, said its chief marketing officer will leave the company for personal reasons. Keith Pardy will stay on with RIM for six months to assist with the ... |
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RIMM's Chief Marketing Officer Departing on Eve of PlayBook LaunchWall Street Journal (blog) - Mar 4, 2011By Dave Kansas Research in Motion is having a tumultuous week in the stock market, capped by the surprise news that Chief Marketing Office Keith Pardy is leaving the company for personal reasons. As The Wall Street Journal notes: “The departure comes ... |
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Marvell's Weak Report Highlights BlackBerry's WoesWall Street Journal - Benjamin Pimentel - Mar 4, 2011SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Marvell Technology Group Ltd.'s (MRVL) disappointing earnings report not only sent its own shares tumbling Friday, it also turned the spotlight on the BlackBerry's struggle to compete with the iPhone and Android-based devices ... |
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Marvell miss highlights BlackBerry woesMarketWatch - Benjamin Pimentel - Mar 4, 2011SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) â€" Marvell Technology Group Ltd.'s disappointing earnings report not only sent its own shares tumbling on Friday, but also illustrated the degree of difficulty for the BlackBerry in competing ... |
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Android is No. 1 OS, but Apple, RIM rule devicesCNET (blog) - Lance Whitney - Mar 4, 2011Google, Apple, and RIM are all vying for the top spot among the smartphones. But which one is dominant depends on whether you look at operating systems or devices, according to new data from Nielsen. Among mobile operating systems, ... |
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Android top mobile OS; geezers prefer iPhonesAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog) - George Mathis - Mar 4, 2011Most everyone has a smartphone these days. My vintage Google G1 phone battery lasts about as long as a newsroom doughnut, but it's hanging in there. With all the iPhone/Verizon hype, you'd expect Apple to be dominating the mobile OS market. ... |
More US consumers buying Android phones than iPhones, BlackBerrysCNN - Amy Gahran - Mar 4, 2011Currently Android has 29% of the US smartphone market; while the iPhone and BlackBerry hold 27% each. Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media ... |
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Android smartphones top iPhones, BlackBerries for first timeComputerworld - Matt Hamblen - Mar 4, 2011Computerworld - Android smartphones beat out iPhone and BlackBerry devices for the first time in the US in the latest Nielsen survey conducted just prior to Verizon Wireless sales of the iPhone. Android devices made by several ... |
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RIM ties with Apple for US smartphone market shareInquirer - Lawrence Latif - Mar 4, 2011REPORTS of Apple's runaway success in the smartphone market have been greatly exaggerated, according to figures published by the industry watching firm Nielsen. In its quarterly report of US smartphone share for the quarter ending ... |
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Android Edges RIM, Apple as Most Popular Smartphone OSPCWorld - Ian Paul - Mar 4, 2011Google's Android is the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States -- but just barely, according to new numbers from the Nielsen Company. The metrics firm found that Android has captured 29 ... |
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Android vs Blackberry vs iPhone battle intensifiesSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) - Mar 4, 2011Android phones appear to be pulling ahead of Blackberries and iPhones in the smart phone race, according to the latest report by Nielsen. In looking at the consumer market of smart phone operating systems, it found that 29 percent are using Android ... |
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BlackBerry Messenger due for iOS, AndroidTechtree.com - Samir Makwana - Mar 4, 2011BlackBerry Messenger has brought massive popularity to the platform apart from its encrypted email services. Boy Genius Report has learned from multiple sources that Research in Motion plans to release a cross-platform version of BlackBerry Messenger ... |
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Apple, Google, RIM neck-and-neck in smart phone marketEconomic Times - Mar 3, 2011NEW YORK: Apple, Google, Research In Motion (RIM) are neck and neck in the cut-throat smart phone market in the US , according to a Nielsen survey Thursday. While Apple and Google have their own individual operating systems to run their respective ... |
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Bits: Android Pulls Ahead in Smartphone RaceNew York Times (blog) - Nick Bilton - Mar 3, 2011The smartphone race is still raging, but who is winning might look different depending which question you ask. Is Google's Android platform beating Apple's iOS? Yes, and no. A new report released Thursday by Nielsen, a market research ... |
Nielsen: Consumers Prefer AndroidPC Magazine - Mark Hachman - Mar 3, 2011What's the most popular mobile OS out there? Android, by a nose, Nielsen reported in a report Thursday. In a study of 14701 Americans, The Nielsen Company reported that 29 percent of those postpaid mobile subscribers surveyed owned an ... |
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Apple, Google, RIM in smartphone dead heatRegister - Mar 3, 2011Although Android-based smartphones now have a larger US market share that do handsets from Apple or RIM, the three-way battle remains a tight one. "When it comes to consumer marketshare by operating system, Android (29%) appears to be pulling ahead of ... |
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Report: Blackberry Messenger Due for Android, iOSPC Magazine - Mark Hachman - Mar 3, 2011Research in Motion is planning on porting its Blackberry Messenger Service to both the Android OS and eventually the Apple iOS platform as well, a report claimed Thursday. Citing multiple sources within RIM, Boy Genius Report claimed ... |
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Report: BlackBerry Messenger coming to iOS and Androidmsnbc.com - Rosa Golijan - Mar 3, 2011Amazing news for folks with BlackBerry-obsessed friends: Research In Motion, the company behind those addicting devices, might be bringing its popular BlackBerry Messenger app over to Apple iOS and Android devices. ... |
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Rumor: RIM's BlackBerry Messenger coming to Android, iOSCNET (blog) - Scott Webster - Mar 3, 2011Research In Motion is said to be prepping cross-platform versions of its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application for release later this year. According to multiple sources close to Boy Genius Report (BGR), an Android version "is ... |
If BlackBerry Messenger Goes to Android, What Remains of BlackBerry?PCWorld - Jared Newman - Mar 3, 2011BlackBerry enthusiasts like to cite RIM's BlackBerry Messenger as a big reason to stick with the smartphone platform, but this perk may not be exclusive forever. According to Boy Genius Report's sources, Research in Motion ... |
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BlackBerry Messenger App May Be Coming To Apple, Android DevicesHuffington Post - Catharine Smith - Mar 3, 2011Research In Motion (RIM) plans to develop its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) app for Google's Android platform and perhaps even for Apple's iOS devices, according "multiple trusted sources" who dished to Boy Genius Report. At the Mobile World Congress last ... |
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