The level of competition between smartphone manufacturers and the companies that make the software that powers these devices is awe-inspiring to watch. It is fuelling innovation not seen in the technology industry since the early days of the personal
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Analyst firm Gartner has expressed surprise that Nokia didn’t push support for big business when taking the wraps off its new Windows Phone-powered smartphones in London this week, questioning why the company instead focused so heavily on pitching
It’s all too easy to forget how dependent we have become on mobile communications technology. Until it fails. When it does, the knives come out and consumers threaten mass defection to alternative platforms. Canada’s Research in Motion, the maker
BlackBerry maker, Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM), is offering BlackBerry users free premium applications in an effort to appease customers after the service interruptions that affected users in parts of the world, including SA, last week. RIM says
The mobile phone industry is a brutal business. There may be gold in them thar hills, but it can be painful to extract. Witness the howls of rage from tens of millions of BlackBerry customers around the world who were cut off from services like BlackBerry Messenger
BlackBerry users affected by the recent outage should seek recourse from the National Consumer Commission, Business Day reported on Thursday. Commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala said consumers would find protection under sections 55, 56 and 61
All BlackBerry services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as India, have been operating with “significant improvement”, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said on Thursday morning. “We continue to monitor the situation 24×7 to
Many BlackBerry users appeared to be without Internet service again on Tuesday as they took to social media networks like Twitter to complain of a fresh outage after yesterday’s prolonged interruption to the BlackBerry Internet Service. Yesterday’s outage affected
BlackBerry users have been hit by a major outage reportedly affecting the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, including the UK. The extent of the problem isn’t yet clear, but countless SA BlackBerry users began reporting problems
The original version of the article, entitled “BlackBerry to open BBM to rivals?” contained speculation that, on balance, now appears…