Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have debuted what looks like the first in a series of 'character one-sheets' featuring the giant robots (Jaegers) from Guillermo del Toro's much-anticipated disaster epic "Pacific Rim". This character is the Japanese Jaeger Coyote Tango. Dark Horizons - News … [Read more...]
RIM’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are out, new CEO Thorsten Heins may license BlackBerry 10
January 25, 2012 by
After months upon months of investor backlash, RIM's making some significant changes. And by "significant," we mean the co-chief executives (and founders) are out. As of tomorrow, both Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis will be stepping away from the top posts, enabling "a little-known company insider" to take over, according to The Wall Street … [Read more...]
RIM’s Thorsten Heins formally introduced: liveblogging the media call
January 23, 2012 by
If you missed it, RIM attempted to interrupt the Giants vs. 49ers matchup last night by dropping a wee bit of news: it's co-CEOs are gone, and taking the solo CEO badge is former COO Thorsten Heins. The new head honcho will be formally introduced in a media call slated to begin at 8:00AM ET on January 23rd, 2012, and we'll be liveblogging every … [Read more...]
Editorial: RIM’s new CEO isn’t the shakeup it needed
January 23, 2012 by
For a brief moment, I had hopes that RIM had made a move that would unseat it from the funk it's been sitting in for years. And then I watched the introductory video of newly-appointed CEO Thorsten Heins. Anyone who assumes that a simple CEO swap is the answer to all of RIM's issues is woefully misinformed, or worse, just blinded by false hope. … [Read more...]
How would you change RIM’s BlackBerry Bold 9930?
October 30, 2011 by
There's no QNX (or BBX, we should say) here, but the Bold 9930 is still taking baby steps towards the future with BlackBerry OS 7. Now that you've had a few months to tinker with your latest and greatest, we're interested to hear how you'd tweak things if given the keys to Waterloo. Would you make it look a bit more like this? Change up the screen? … [Read more...]
RIM’s Q2 earnings report: $329 million in net income, not enough to fend off critics
September 17, 2011 by
The first quarterly earnings report post-Wake Up Call have just been published for Canada's own Research in Motion, and while the cash is still flowing, investors and analysts alike aren't feeling too rosy about the future. Despite Q2 revenue of $ 4.2 billion and a GAAP net income of $ 329 million, RIM's stock plummeted nine percent following the … [Read more...]
