Phone companies have long battled each other for customers, but now they're also fighting for the loyalty of developers: coders who create bite-sized software applications for mobile devices.
Research in Motion is set to show whether it can keep defying the slumping economy and the slowdown in mobile phone sales, and withstand the looming threat of Apple's iPhone.
It's a familiar scenario. You're on your way to work, maybe running 10 minutes late, and you're trying to make up for lost time.
Research in Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless device, said fourth-quarter profits and sales both doubled over the same quarter last year, thanks to strong gains in subscribers.
You put your best foot forward during your job interview. You wear a pressed suit and arrive 20 minutes early. Once you've been working at a place for a while, though, you get a little more comfortable. Maybe you scrounge through the hamper to find a shirt that's not too wrinkled and you slide into your chair just as the clock strikes eight.
BlackBerry email service went down Monday afternoon, according to Research in Motion, maker of the smartphone.
Not too long ago, the generation gap meant parents didn't understand why ripped jeans cost twice as much as regular ones or why every other word coming out of their child's mouth was "like."
Stocks maintained their early gains Friday as Wall Street enjoyed a wave of encouraging corporate news, including impressive earnings from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and a report that banking giant Merrill Lynch may sell a stake to a foreign fund.
Stocks moved steadily higher Friday encouraged by a report that banking giant Merrill Lynch may sell a stake in itself to a foreign fund and impressive earnings from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.
Stocks soared at the start of Friday's session as investors cheered impressive earnings from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and reports that banking giant Merrill Lynch may sell a stake to a foreign state-owned investment fund.
Phone companies have long battled each other for customers, but now they're also fighting for the loyalty of developers: coders who create bite-sized software applications for mobile devices.
Research in Motion is set to show whether it can keep defying the slumping economy and the slowdown in mobile phone sales, and withstand the looming threat of Apple's iPhone.
It's a familiar scenario. You're on your way to work, maybe running 10 minutes late, and you're trying to make up for lost time.
Research in Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless device, said fourth-quarter profits and sales both doubled over the same quarter last year, thanks to strong gains in subscribers.
You put your best foot forward during your job interview. You wear a pressed suit and arrive 20 minutes early. Once you've been working at a place for a while, though, you get a little more comfortable. Maybe you scrounge through the hamper to find a shirt that's not too wrinkled and you slide into your chair just as the clock strikes eight.
BlackBerry email service went down Monday afternoon, according to Research in Motion, maker of the smartphone.
Not too long ago, the generation gap meant parents didn't understand why ripped jeans cost twice as much as regular ones or why every other word coming out of their child's mouth was "like."
Stocks maintained their early gains Friday as Wall Street enjoyed a wave of encouraging corporate news, including impressive earnings from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and a report that banking giant Merrill Lynch may sell a stake to a foreign fund.
Stocks moved steadily higher Friday encouraged by a report that banking giant Merrill Lynch may sell a stake in itself to a foreign fund and impressive earnings from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.
Stocks soared at the start of Friday's session as investors cheered impressive earnings from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and reports that banking giant Merrill Lynch may sell a stake to a foreign state-owned investment fund.
JetBlue is about to become the first US airline to offer passengers free e-mail at 35,000 feet
JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access
A software glitch shut down e-mail service for some BlackBerry users Friday, and delays were still being felt hours after the problem was fixed.
Dear Annie: I am a recent law-school graduate and, though I'm not yet working at a law firm, I have friends who are. I understand that things in international firms happen 24/7, 365 days a year, and I want to be as supportive of my friends' careers as I expect them to be of mine. My question is, to what degree in social settings, on a regular basis, should friends be checking their BlackBerrys, and at what point should I say something? What's rude and what's truly necessary? -Bored in BlackBerryLand
I'm the founder of Cheetah Learning, which offers project-management training courses worldwide (cheetahlearning.com). We teach our business clients how to meet goals such as developing a product, launching a website, or reaching a sales quota. I also run a corporate retreat in Haines, Alaska, and sell kayak-making kits that can be used for team building at our Haines facility or the customer's site. Our clients include Blue Cross Blue Shield, IBM, and Pepsi, and we posted sales of about $9 million in 2006.
After racing bicycles professionally for two years and realizing that I was no Lance Armstrong, I found another way to make a living on a bike. I had spent 20 years organizing bike treks with friends through the Alps, the hills of Tuscany and the countryside of Provence. Noticing a growing appetite for such trips, I founded Destination Cycling (destinationcycling.com) in 2002. I now run tours on my bike 70 days a year.
Shares of Research In Motion hit a new high Thursday as investors continued to bid up the stock in wake of a strong quarterly earning report, a rosy outlook and news the company was finalizing plans to sell its BlackBerry smartphones in China.
When the users of BlackBerries could not send or receive e-mails for 11 hours in April because of a glitch in the system, hospital administrator Paul Levy pronounced it a "national disaster" because of all the BlackBerry "addicts" forced into withdrawal.
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion reported a higher first-quarter profit Thursday, beating expectations as it added more subscribers for its popular wireless e-mail devices than it had forecast.
Is work exhausting us in a way it never did before?
The maker of the BlackBerry, a popular phone for business users, Thursday announced a new multimedia phone aimed at the consumer market.
After racing bicycles professionally for two years and realizing that I was no Lance Armstrong, I found another way to make a living on a bike. I had spent 20 years organizing bike treks with frien...
A system failure knocked out BlackBerry service to millions of customers late Tuesday but the company said Wednesday morning that service for "most customers" was restored.
Research In Motion may be to blame for a lot of sore thumbs. But customers, not to mention investors, of the BlackBerry maker probably forgive them.
News comes from the Department of Labor that productivity growth in nonfarm business in the U.S. hit a critical number in the third quarter. That number was zero, as in naught, as in nothing, no gr...
A new white version of the hit BlackBerry Pearl phone will be released Monday, according to maker Research In Motion.
Think about this scenario: A leader misspeaks, the comments are posted on a blog three minutes later, and within an hour media organizations have picked up the comments, reporting them on television and online.
Rand McNally GPS Navigator
U.S. stocks open mixed Friday, as lackluster economic news confronted some positive developments in the tech sector.
Tech stocks could lead the way higher at Friday's open after a key device maker's positive results, as the Dow Jones industrial average starts the day less than 5 points from its all-time closing high.
Checking in a BlackBerry or laptop for a break in the hotel safe could help business travelers boost their creativity and beat 'techno-stress,' it has been claimed.
Want to get a sense of where wireless technology is headed? Think back to where the Internet stood at a similar point in its development - say, sometime around 1998. Back then the computer had alre...
WHO MOVED MY BLACKBERRY?, a U.K. bestseller by FT columnist Lucy Kellaway, traces a tumultuous year in the life of Martin Lukes, a striving and conniving executive in a global enterprise. He's obno...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - It may be true that the more things change the more they stay the same.
The lawsuit that nearly shut down the country's BlackBerry e-mail devices vaulted the normally obscure issue of patents into the national spotlight this winter.
Their styles are wildly different, but all three leaders have BLACK BELTS IN PRODUCTIVITY. (For a multitasking box score, go to the last page of foldout.)
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said Friday it agreed to pay $612.5 million to patent holding company NTP to settle a long-running dispute that had threatened to shut down the popular wireless e-mail service for its 3 million users.
TIP 1 Let's make a deal Bidding wars are so 2004. Home buyers are regaining the upper hand in some spots. The new rules for negotiating:
A judge spared millions of users from an immediate shutdown of the BlackBerry portable e-mail devices on Friday.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first final rejection on one the patents involved in the longstanding dispute between BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and patent holding company NTP.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and patent holding firm NTP are set to face off again Friday, when a hearing begins on whether to shut down the popular wireless e-mail device in the U.S.
The Justice Department on Wednesday again voiced fear over a potential shutdown of Research in Motion's BlackBerry service in the U.S., saying it remains unclear how a blackout would impact government workers.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a report that the chances are slim for a systemwide shutdown of the BlackBerry e-mail service.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion faces a possible shutdown of its sales and service, an outcome that could paralyze U.S. businesses and cost them dearly.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion was dealt a setback Monday after the Supreme Court turned down a request to review a major patent infringement ruling against it.
The U.S. Supreme on Monday refused to hear a case involving a claim of patent infringement by the makers of the BlackBerry, sending the case back to trial judge, where an injunction could take the handheld wireless e-mail devices off the market.
WHAT WOULD OSAMA BIN LADEN GIVE to be able to knock out every BlackBerry in America and achieve an instant, sweeping disruption of commerce? The good news is he can't do it. The weird and disconcer...
Shares in BlackBerry maker Research in Motion rallied Friday after reports said the company had reached a settlement in a patent dispute for less than analysts had feared.
TIP 1 Shop but don't drop
What would Osama bin Laden give to be able to knock out every BlackBerry in America and achieve an instant, sweeping disruption of commerce? The good news is he can't do it. The weird and disconcerting news is that a company called NTP can and, unless it's paid off, probably will sometime before Christmas.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - If you own a BlackBerry, the mere thought of no longer being able to use it to check e-mail probably sends shivers down your spine.
Ideas That Are All Wet
Over the past few years, Research in Motion's BlackBerrys have become synonymous with e-mail on the go. The innovative gadgets -- which rely on a simple user interface and a seamless back-end e-mail server to deliver customers' e-mail to their mobile phones -- have become so popular that they're often known as "crackberrys."
Continued high oil prices could give stocks trouble in the early going Tuesday.
A new survey says the average worker wastes more than two hours a day at work. This is about twice as much wasted time as their employers expect, according to the survey by Salary.com and America Online.
Tech investors like the taste of fruit this year.
WITH THE STAGGERING SUCCESS OF its utilitarian black or blue, seemingly omnipresent BlackBerry devices, Research in Motion has become the hottest company out of Canada since ... since ... well, let...
An hour's drive west of Toronto, inside a 120,000-square-foot building that also houses a leather tannery, Mike Lazaridis's 20-year dream is coming to life. Seven 125-foot-long assembly lines are s...
Technology, we were once told, would make our lives simpler in the future.
You can thank Research in Motion and its highly addictive BlackBerry for the fact that office e-mail can now find 1.3 million users pretty much anywhere. Co-CEO Jim Balsillie has run the 20-year ol...
Markets look poised to maintain momentum Wednesday after ending in positive territory Tuesday on the eve of the Federal Reserve's anticipated 1/4 percentage point interest rate hike.
Personal digital assistants are almost as common as cellular phones, and with so many models of these mobile devices, companies are packing them with extra features hoping to set themselves apart from the competition.
What's your favorite high-tech gadget of them all? The one you couldn't live without? These days, for me at least, the answer is easy: my new BlackBerry phone. It is, hands down, the most powerful...
There are PDAs that are also cell phones, like the new BlackBerry I've just gushed about. And there are cell phones that act as PDAs. This year, Gates & Co. plan to unveil just such a device: a new...
So here's what I took on my summer vacation abroad:
While the rest of us were furiously scribbling away on our Palm PDAs--or, perhaps, just waking up to the handheld revolution for the first time--Wall Street types and techies were forming a cult ar...
GOOD TECHNOLOGY Handheld e-mail service www.good.com
While the rest of us were furiously scribbling away on our Palm PDAs -- or, perhaps, just waking up to the handheld revolution for the first time -- Wall Street types and techies were forming a cult around a product called the BlackBerry.
For Michael J. Fagel, a disaster-recovery specialist, wireless data service came of age in the rubble of the World Trade Center. While working in the chaos of ground zero just days after the towers...
A year ago, in the pursuit of my new business venture, I had to give up some of life's luxuries. Like having a place to live. To save money, I've been sleeping on friends' sofas and floors, all whi...
Last night I was in a Chinese restaurant. At the next table there was a young woman with a fork in one hand and a cell phone in the other, using her mouth to chew and talk at the same time. Where I...
This was the week that everything broke, at least in terms of computing. Having had an experience like this, I could wax philosophical about how machines are taking over our lives, but I won't--we ...
I lost my BlackBerry. It was scary. I looked in my pocket, and it was gone. All of a sudden, like. One minute I thought it was there. Then it wasn't. Poof. For those of you who don't know, the Blac...
Its badass name is almost enough to make Danger Research (as in "Danger, Will Robinson!") cool. But Danger also promises a hip product. Its form is still hush-hush, but here's what we know: Danger ...
I knew the final upgrade of my E-management capabilities was complete when I caught myself e-mailing Ronny. There was something I wanted Ronny to do, and it only made sense to me to whip off a coup...
If it weren't for wireless messaging, Rebecca Fyfe would probably be dead. Last month the British teenager was stranded with fellow tourists in stormy seas off the coast of Indonesia. The crew of t...
Okay, I confess. I didn't get a Blackberry until three months ago. The thing was introduced nearly two years ago. The maker of the device, Research in Motion (RIM, for short), doesn't like to talk ...
Is the wireless Web the next big thing? Online brokerages certainly seem to think so. Most major brokers have added some form of wireless access over the past year, and many of them are now spendin...
Some people organize their lives around television shows like Sex and the City or Survivor. But for many of us, the most absorbing drama is the stock market, whose wild ups and downs have transfixe...
EDITOR'S CHOICE E-mail for One and All
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |
Video
