The BlackBerry 10 OS launched in January alongside the all-touch Z10 and many agreed that BlackBerry was finally on the right track back into being a solid contender in the device OS war. However, when announcing the Z10, Blackberry also announced what many were really hoping for: the QWERTY-featured Q10. It took iconic cues from [...]

BlackBerry’s ill-fated PlayBook may be the first and last tablet to come out of Waterloo. Despite plans to port the new BlackBerry 10 operating system to the two-and-a-half year old tablet, it sounds like the company is all but done producing tablet hardware. In an interview with Bloomberg, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has expressed his belief that [...]

BlackBerry held their Q4 fiscal 2013 earnings call this morning, wherein CEO Thorsten Heins announced that the company has returned to profitability. After bleeding money for most of 2012, the launch of BlackBerry 10 earlier this year has earned the company a $94 million profit on revenue of $2.7 billion. BlackBerry also managed to ship [...]

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins released a short statement today, touting a successful BlackBerry Z10 launch in Canada and the U.K. The full statement: “In Canada, yesterday was the best day ever for the first day of a launch of a new BlackBerry smartphone. In fact, it was more than 50% better than any other launch [...]

Two things we know about RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: he’s really, really tall and he likes his sports. What we didn’t know, however, is how much he loves showing off unreleased devices in public! Pictured above we see Thorsten and RIM Senior Vice President, Software Product Management Andrew Bocking, taking in a Lakers / Suns game; both [...]

BlackBerry diehards, this couldn’t be better news for you. After months of negativity surrounding the brand, and it’s forthcoming OS, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has finally announced that BlackBerry 10 has reached carrier-lab testing, and is in the hands of over 50 carriers worldwide. Here is his official statement on the matter: “I’m very pleased [...]

There is no denying the relentless pressure on RIM CEO, Thorsten Heins to get BB10 right. It’s come to the point where the fate of the Waterloo-based tech giant rests on a successful launch of the aforementioned OS. Throughout all of this, the 6’5″ cool-headed business man has kept his confidence up, and morale in [...]

I wrote a blog post for Notable.ca on Sunday in regards to the announcement that BB10 would be delayed, and some issues I think RIM will face come Q1 2013. Instead of doing the whole copy-paste thing, click here to read my thoughts on the matter. Would love feedback and criticism; c’ mon, let’s have [...]

Day 2 of BlackBerry World 2012 is about to get underway. What’s been an action packed conference full of announcements (and parties), now brings something a bit more toned down with an intimate Q and A session with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins. Stay tuned and follow-suit for our live blog as the session starts in [...]

Before the BlackBerry fan-boys crack open their champagne bottles amidst the news of the corporate shake-up at RIM, we should all stop for a minute and give the boys (Jim and Mike, but from now on I will refer to them as “the boys”) a slow round of applause and pat on their tailored-suited backs [...]