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(AP) -- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has hired two new senior executives as it faces its most difficult period in its history. http://phys.org/news255695799.html Technology Tue, 08 May 2012 11:36:47 EST news255695799 (AP) -- Research in Motion Ltd. says future BlackBerry models will still offer physical keyboards. http://phys.org/news255258323.html Electronics Thu, 03 May 2012 11:40:02 EST news255258323 Nokia, one of the world's leading mobile phone makers, said Wednesday it had filed patent infringement lawsuits against mobile phone and electronics groups HTC, RIM and ViewSonic in the United States and Germany. http://phys.org/news255190960.html Technology Wed, 02 May 2012 17:30:05 EST news255190960 (AP) -- The newest board member of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says a turnaround could take three to five years. http://phys.org/news254675307.html Technology Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:08:34 EST news254675307 Thinking of selling or giving away your smartphone or laptop computer? If you have a BlackBerry or an iPhone, go right ahead. But if you have an Android phone or a computer running Windows XP, you may want to hold off. http://phys.org/news253529501.html Technology Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:40:01 EST news253529501 (AP) -- Struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Thursday that it plans to return its focus to its corporate customers after failing to compete with flashier, consumer-oriented phones such as Apple's iPhone and models that run Google's Android software. http://phys.org/news252261024.html Technology Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:30:32 EST news252261024 MESSENGER captured this high-resolution image of an elongated pit crater within the floor of the 355-km (220-mile) -wide crater Tolstoj on Mercury on Jan. 11, 2012. The low angle of sun illumination puts the interior of the pit crater into deep shadow, making it appear bottomless. http://phys.org/news251456409.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:00:46 EST news251456409 (PhysOrg.com) -- One of the main goals of the Apollo 16 mission was to explore and sample a young bright-rayed crater aptly named North Ray crater (890 m diameter). Its high reflectivity is due to its young age. http://phys.org/news250509440.html Space & Earth Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:57:57 EST news250509440 Research In Motion released a free upgraded operating system for its struggling Playbook computer tablet on Tuesday, almost a year later than it first said it would. http://phys.org/news249043412.html Technology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:43:39 EST news249043412 Research In Motion vowed Tuesday to defend the legal privacy rights of BlackBerry users after a judicial commission in Pakistan ordered copies of smartphone communications in a scandal probe. http://phys.org/news244835978.html Technology Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:04:35 EST news244835978 Few companies better understand the difficulties of doing business in Indonesia than BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. http://phys.org/news244638437.html Technology Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:07:59 EST news244638437 BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's share of the US smartphone market declined during the three months ending in November, while Apple and Google's Android platform both made gains, industry tracker comScore said Thursday. http://phys.org/news244402784.html Technology Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:39:57 EST news244402784 Research In Motion's shares took off Wednesday amid unconfirmed reports that tech heavyweights Microsoft, Nokia and Amazon had looked to take over the BlackBerry smartphone maker. http://phys.org/news243696899.html Technology Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:35:13 EST news243696899 BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Thursday that new phones deemed critical to the company's future will be delayed until late 2012. http://phys.org/news243190495.html Technology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:55:06 EST news243190495 Indonesia has threatened to cut data services used by millions of BlackBerry customers, the industry body said Saturday, in an ongoing spat over infrastructure and government access to information. http://phys.org/news242796316.html Technology Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:50:01 EST news242796316 BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has been forced to change the name of its new operating system from BBX after the company lost a trademark ruling. http://phys.org/news242490606.html Technology Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:30:15 EST news242490606 The Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones announced Monday the firing of two senior executives over reckless drunkenness that forced the diversion of a trans-Pacific flight last week. http://phys.org/news242324165.html Technology Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:30:01 EST news242324165 (AP) -- Police say a senior executive of Canada's Research In Motion is a suspect in last month's stampede at a BlackBerry promotion in Indonesia. http://phys.org/news242274171.html Technology Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:22:57 EST news242274171 (AP) -- Research In Motion Ltd., the struggling maker of the BlackBerry phones, is writing off much of its inventory of PlayBook tablets, since it has to sell them at a deep discount. http://phys.org/news242047874.html Technology Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:50:01 EST news242047874 A trio of software developers said Wednesday they have cracked BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer software and promised to reveal the secret within a week. http://phys.org/news241898641.html Electronics Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:04:14 EST news241898641 Canadian manufacturer Research In Motion unveiled on Tuesday a new server for its BlackBerry smartphone that also supports competitors' smartphones and tablets. http://phys.org/news241797257.html Technology Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:30:01 EST news241797257 An offer of discounted BlackBerry smart phones turned into a frenzy Friday when thousands of Indonesians stormed the outlet, causing a crush in which at least three people were injured and some fainted. http://phys.org/news241423898.html Technology Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:11:48 EST news241423898 Research In Motion said late Wednesday that BlackBerry services are working normally after earlier announcing a probe into reports that users hit by a recent outage were still experiencing email woes. http://phys.org/news240122880.html Technology Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:48:17 EST news240122880 (AP) -- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says its music-sharing application for its popular messaging service will be available for downloading in the U.S., Canada and Australia within a day. http://phys.org/news239460036.html Technology Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:40:46 EST news239460036 Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday set out to rev up its BlackBerry and PlayBook lines with a tactic from Apple's winning playbook -- sexy, entertaining software applications. http://phys.org/news238163709.html Technology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:00:01 EST news238163709 (AP) -- The maker of the struggling BlackBerry tried to soothe tens of millions of frustrated customers Monday, offering more than $100 worth of free software to each one and giving some a month of technical support as compensation for last week's massive outage. http://phys.org/news238122837.html Technology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:14:31 EST news238122837 Three days of BlackBerry outages that spread to North America on Wednesday are being caused by a backlog of emails from Europe, the system's under-pressure owners said. http://phys.org/news237654869.html Technology Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:14:40 EST news237654869 BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. http://phys.org/news237627270.html Technology Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:34:36 EST news237627270 BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) dismissed a report on Thursday that it was pulling the plug on its PlayBook tablet computer. http://phys.org/news236534179.html Electronics Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:56:33 EST news236534179 Shares in Research In Motion (RIM) fell sharply in after-hours trading on Thursday after the BlackBerry maker said it shipped fewer smartphones and tablet computers than expected in the quarter. http://phys.org/news235327661.html Technology Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:47:56 EST news235327661