With his keynote well underway, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has already made many-a-fanboy’s smile. He has already announced the forthcoming new OS entitled BBX, which will allow devices to run their ever-so-necessary new QNX platform, and now he has updated us all on just how well their BlackBerry App World is actually doing. As for the [...]

This past year has been a torrid one for the billionaire buddies out of Waterloo; falling stock prices, lost market share and most of all, the one that hurts the most, the brand that they have built from scratch is losing its dominance in the smartphone world. But, like all CEO’s (Co in this instance), [...]

Good morning world! Welcome to day 2 of BlackBerry World 2011 and one of the most exciting so far, as this mornings session features keynote talks from: RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, Carolyn Everson, VP of Global Advertising Sales at facebook, and Jeff McDowell SVP of Business and Platform marketing at RIM. The event is packed, [...]

We just spoke about the update RIM plans on pushing out tonight for the PlayBook, which will bring video chat capabilities but not much other info was immediately known. Well, that has changed now; because as we speak, Mike Lazaridis is talking about all the features being brought to the table via conference call. Below are some [...]

Just released video from the BBC shows RIM (Research In Motion) co-CEO Mike Lazaridis being interviewed by Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC technology correspondent for the show “Click”. When asked about “problems with security” and “various arguments [RIM has] had with the Indian governments and a number of governments in the Middle East”, Lazaridis looks annoyed and says they have never had a [...]

Canadian Business Magazine has just released the 2010 edition of their annual RICH 100 List of the 100 richest Canadians and folks from the Mobile Industry are very well represented taking 6 of the spots - full disclosure, one of those 6 doesn’t live in Canada these days and wasn’t born here but he DOES [...]

Crackberry has posted the full Keynote Address from RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis at WES. He emphasizes that Blackberry is being used by 41 million people all over the world, and last year was their best sales year ever with 37 million handsets sold. He also said something very interesting: that we are getting into an [...]