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BlackBerry Launches BBM Music Service in UK

BlackBerry Launches BBM Music Service in UK

Research in Motion may be grappling with an uncertain future, but the company is not averse to launch new services. BlackBerry company is now live with its social music service aka BBM Music. The service was available in Beta mode till now. The service was initially launched in August. BBM Music will let its users [...]

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BlackBerry Offers Goodies to Its Disgruntled Users: Begs for Forgiveness

BlackBerry Offers Goodies to Its Disgruntled Users: Begs for Forgiveness

BlackBerry screwed it up big time last week and now it is going to pay the price. The company officials have already gone on the record asking for forgiveness. However, as Sony has already shown us, there is no better way to placate your angry customers than to offer them some freebies. So, now it [...]

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Cost of BlackBerry Outage: One in Five Users Plan to Ditch BlackBerry for Good

Cost of BlackBerry Outage: One in Five Users Plan to Ditch BlackBerry for Good

BlackBerry is consistently losing market share and its recent three days long outage just made the situation even worse for the troubled company. While it has been reported that the direct cost of the outage may be as high as $100 million, the company is likely to pay even bigger price in the form of [...]

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Blackberry Outage: The Final Nail In The Coffin ?

Blackberry have confirmed today that their email, internet and messenger services are now coming back online after a 3-day service blackout which has brought into sharp-focus the inability for RIM to communicate the problem to their frustrated customers. In a statement this morning at 5.30am, RIM said there is “a significant increase” in Blackberry service [...]

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Retail Partners Offer Massive Discounts on BlackBerry PlayBook

Retail Partners Offer Massive Discounts on BlackBerry PlayBook

It was not a long time back, we had discussed if BlackBerry would send its PlayBook down the HP TouchPad road. No, no, worry not, BlackBerry is not scraping the idea of tablet, but it is certainly shaving some dollars off its price tag. PlayBook is now up for grabs with some massive discounts. Earlier [...]

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Apple Products Enjoy Higher Retention Rate: Crushes Competition by a Wide Margin

Apple Products Enjoy Higher Retention Rate: Crushes Competition by a Wide Margin

There is no denying the fact that Apple has massive cult following. However, there are some perfectly good reasons behind this mass following.  As a testimony to the quality control at Apple, the company enjoys 89 percent retention rate. This fact has been disclosed in a report issued by investment bank UBS. The more surprising [...]

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RIM Posts Abysmal Quarterly Earnings: Is PlayBook Doomed?

RIM Posts Abysmal Quarterly Earnings: Is PlayBook Doomed?

Research in Motion had given plenty of warnings before declaring its quarterly results. However, the actual numbers still caught quite a few experts off-guard. The numbers clearly showed that the company is steadily plunging downwards and there does not seem to be much hope of it recovering. The company solidly failed to meet its own [...]

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Would you Pay $5 per Month for BlackBerry Music Service

Lately, there had been rumors about RIM starting its own music service and it seems like the rumors are actually true as some more factoids about the new service have emerged. The new service will be integrated with BB Messenger. RIM is likely to offer introductory free trial of the service, but after this, the [...]

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