PlayBook

RIM will charge itself $485 million to make up for low PlayBook sales

Sun, 2011-12-04 09:03 - By

Digital Media, Electronics & Technology, itproportal.com, PlayBook, RIM

Research in Motion has announced that it will charge itself up to $485 million to make up for the Playbook's dissapointing sales. RIM's tablet sold 150,000 units in the third quarter, down from 500,000 in the first quarter and 250,000 in the second quarter. The Canadian company announced that it would charge itself an additional $50 million to make up for the three-day BlackBerry network outage in October.

RIM unveils BlackBerry BBX to provide a next generation platform for BlackBerry Smartphones and Tablets

Thu, 2011-10-20 08:23 - By

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Announcement, Digital Media, Media Business, Product Launch, Media, Blackberry, BlackBerry BBX, BlackBerry DevCon Americas, BlackBerry WebWorks, Mike Lazaridis, PlayBook, Research In Motion, RIM

At BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011, Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled BlackBerry BBX, its next generation mobile platform that takes the best of the BlackBerry platform and the best of the QNXplatform to connect people, devices, content and services.

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Amazon releases Kindle Fire at lower price than rival tablets, but less features

Wed, 2011-09-28 18:59 - By

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Announcement, Media Business, Product Launch, Media, Amazon, Android, apple, Blackberry, CNN Money, Google, iPad, Kindle Fire, PlayBook, Research In Motion, RIM

Amazon has just recently unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet, a 7-inch display that runs on a heavily customized version of Google’s Android operating system, and weighs less than six ounces. The tablet is offered at a much cheaper price than Apple’s iPad, however, it lacks a camera and microphone, two features found in most rival tablets.

RIM to launch PlayBook 2.0 and BlackBerry Video Store

Mon, 2011-09-19 11:39 - By

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Announcement, Digital Media, Media Business, Electronics & Technology, Media, apple, Blackberry, iPad, PlayBook, Rapid TV News, Research In Motion, RIM

The unit shipment results of the PlayBook tablet from Research in Motion (RIM) has been reported to be disappointing, falling from 500,000 shipments in the previous quarter to 200,000 units in the second quarter, Rapid TV News reports. RIM described the current PlayBook performance as unit volume below expectations.

EMS partners with Polar Mobile, mobile applications to be provided for 100 media companies in Middle East

Mon, 2011-08-29 07:44 - By

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With the increasing demand for mobile content solutions, EMS has signed a partnership deal with Polar Mobile, to launch mobile Apps across multiple smartphone handsets for over 100 media companies in the Middle East. Early customers for EMS and Polar Mobile in the region include Gulf News, Khaleej Times, 7DAYS and Al Aan TV.

Professional edition of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite now available

Mon, 2011-05-09 09:01 - By

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Digital Media, Media Business, Product Launch, Media, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Android, Apple iPad, Blackberry, David Wadhwani, PlayBook

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of the Professional Edition of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, a turnkey solution that includes hosted services and viewer technology that allow a spectrum of publishers to cost-efficiently publish content to Android tablets, BlackBerry Play