With all of the restructuring of leadership going on at Research in Motion these days, it looks as if some of the bigger players in the company are jumping off what very well may be a sinking ship. According to a report fromMobile Syrup, Ryan Bidan, Senior Product Manager at RIM, has left to join Samsung. The report, which also highlights apersonal tweetsent by Bidan earlier today, is going to be Samsung’s Director of Product Marketing....
Reutersreports that Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion may attempt to trump Google’s $900 million bid for the wireless technology patents held by Nortel Networks Corporation. Citing two people familiar with the plans, RIM is exploring besting the $900 million offer put forth by Google earlier this month. Google put forth the offer to help it combat a ever-growing patent war against other mobile giants. The Mountain View, California company, which operates the most popular search engine in the world, has seen incredible success with their Android mobile operating system — which is currentlythe most popular in the world....
Canadian smartphone manufacturer RIM has found itself in the middle of yet another controversial issue, this time facing a ban in Indonesia if it doesn’t work with government regulators to restrict access to pornographic websites. Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring has given RIM until January 21 to begin filtering websites, suggesting the entire browser functionality of BlackBerry devices could be blocked as a result. Indonesia is host to he world’s largest Muslim population and has been scandalised by the release of sex videos of some of the countries most popular celebrities, leading to calls the Internet should be properly filtered....
As part of its efforts to appease BlackBerry owners following a three-day service outage,RIM has announcedit will offer customers a selection of premium applications worth more than $100 and one month of free technical support, finally clarifying if it would offer cash compensation to affected users and businesses. Making the apps available to customers on the BlackBerry App World from October 19th, RIM will run its compensation package until December 31, with more apps becoming available in the coming weeks....
Canadian smartphone manufacturer RIM has announced that it has provided solutions that will give Indian security agencies access to the popular messaging and email services used by BlackBerry smartphone owners in the country. RIM also said that corporate email services remained unavailable to authorities, due to the fact the service incorporates a strict encryption algorithm that the company is not able to access, let alone provide access to a third-party....
