Blackberry

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) changed the world of smartphone development when it introduced the first iPhone in 2007. Since that time, little has changed for the Mac maker's mobile operating system. While iOS has received a number of upgrades to improve its functionality, the core operations have remained...

Samsung may be making progress in the war against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), but it still has a ways to go before it can overtake the iPhone maker. In a poll on Yahoo Finance, investors were asked the following question: "Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S4 smartphone, while BlackBerry has received a...

Sometimes success is as simple as a sale. BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) shares surged Wednesday after the smartphone maker said it had received an order for 1 million BlackBerry 10 smartphones, with shipment set to begin immediately. According to Reuters, the company did not disclose either the...

Earlier this week BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) gained a much-needed boost after the company announced the domestic release date for the Z10. The smartphone maker also benefited from renewed speculation of a Lenovo takeover. Lenovo and BlackBerry have been rumored to merge since last year. While the...

For the past several months, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) loyalists have insisted that the new operating system, BB10, would soar at retail. They supported the investor community, which helped raise BlackBerry's share price by more than 99 percent over the last six months. Their hopes and dreams...

Because it’s worked so well for J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), Best Buy (NASDAQ: BBY), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and RIM (sorry, Blackberry)(NYSE: BBRY), now another well-known brand is going to try it too. Olive Garden, one of the restaurant chains owned by Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) announced...

Samsung just announced a new feature that might put the lights out on BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and give Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) a run for its money. Business Insider reported that earlier this week Samsung announced its latest technology - Samsung Knox. Knox is a new feature that lets you divide...

Last August, Windows fan site WMPoweruser predicted that domestic sales of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Phone platform would overtake BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) by November 2012. The publication came to this conclusion after analyzing data from StatCounter, which showed a steep downward sales...

In 2010, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the Disney-owned (NYSE: DIS) ABC sparked some controversy when the first iPad became the focus of an episode of Modern Family. Word on the street is that Apple received the free promotion simply by providing the network with an iPad to use on the show. Now Apple...

On the first day trading as BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), the company formerly known as Research In Motion has risen more than nine percent. The firm, which changed its name to match the product it is best known for creating, officially unveiled its next mobile operating system on Wednesday, January...

This weekend in Barron's online: the Dow headed for record highs, the next installment of the Barron's Roundtable series, and the prospects for Tata Motors, SanDisk and GulfMark Offshore. Cover Story "New Highs in Sight" by Andrew Bary. The January rally on Friday brought the Dow Jones...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), which is set to debut the BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) name and ticker next Monday, is having a rough week. The stock is down again today, hovering between a three and four percent decline after dropping more than eight percent this morning. Jan Dawson, Ovum's Chief...

It was supposed to be the mobile OS that would change everything, but the only thing that has changed is Research In Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) share price. The stock is down another six percent Thursday, signaling a potential end to RIM's golden child status on Wall Street. The company will...

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," says Shakespeare’s Juliet, affirming her contention that names are less important than substance. A number of firms have changed their names – some of them quite well known. Before it was Xerox (NYSE: XRX), it was Haloid. Would sales have...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), the company that will soon be known as Blackberry (NASDAQ: BBRY), spent several months creating a media firestorm for its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 platform. That firestorm came to an end this morning. "Today sees a re-invented BlackBerry launching an entirely...