Overnight, while you were all tucked away in bed RIM held their first keynote at BlackBerry Jam Asia, currently happening in Bangkok, Thailand. Without wasting time, RIM went on to announce a plethora of newsworthy announcements; starting with BlackBerry AppWorld, to be renamed with the launch of BlackBerry 10 to simply “BlackBerry World”. Alec Saunders, RIM’s [...]

Though I’ve never actually posted my thoughts about it, when it was first announced that RIM had plans on releasing a high-end Porsche designed BlackBerry, I scoffed at the idea. Why would a struggling brand build - and put effort towards marketing - a product that was completely unnecessary? They could have looked across the pond [...]

Less than a month has passed since the successful completion of the 2011 BlackBerry World Conference and Research In Motion (RIM) is not resting on its heels. They have just confirmed the date and location for next year’s BlackBerry World Conference on the BlackBerry World website. The event will be starting on the first Tuesday [...]

  CellGuru is, as you know, down at the BlackBerry World Conference in Orlando, Florida, and we have news coming in from him in regard to the upcoming version of BlackBerry Messenger (aka BBM). The new version of BBM, “BlackBerry Messenger 6″ will launch on the upcoming BlackBerry 7 OS (BB7 OS) devices such as [...]

Didn’t believe it? Well, folks, now you should. During an investors conference call today, RIM’s Co-CEO Jim Balsillie was quoted saying: “we’re now calling BlackBerry 6.1 BlackBerry 7. It’s such a big update from 6.” Not only does this confirm the rumors of yesterday, but also confirms what the buzz of BlackBerry World 2011 -starting this coming [...]

As we have mentioned before, next week in Orlando, Florida will be the Research In Motion (RIM) event - BlackBerry World. Today, RIM announced the finalists of its Wireless Achievement Awards. What are the Wireless Achievement Awards? According to RIM they are awards which are: “presented to customers who are doing business in new and better [...]

RIM (Research In Motion) sent out a press release and posted a blog post announcing that they have decided the days of the Wireless Enterprise Symposium - referred to as WES - have come to an end after 9 years. Instead, RIM will be putting on a different event dubbed BlackBerry World (or BlackBerry World [...]