Chinese computing giant Lenovo is considering purchasing Canadian smartphone handset maker RIM in a bid to join the burgeoning smartphone market. The world’s second largest computer manufacturer by volume, Lenovo’s purchase of Research in Motion would give it an entrance into the lucrative smartphone segment in an effort to diversify its non-pc assets. […]
Read MoreFrom ZDNet: “While for the same third-quarter in 2010 when the iPhone’s share of the market was just over 31 percent, the BlackBerry in this past quarter dropped to just 32 percent. The iPhone excelled this past quarter by significantly increasing its enterprise user share to 45 percent. Android nearly doubled its share from last year, […]
Read MoreRIM, in an attempt to shore up its flailing Blackberry platform, is going to offer a streaming music service integrated into their Blackberry Messenger program. According to RIM, the BBM program is one of the world’s largest mobile social networks and is the focus of retrenchment efforts focused at restoring prestige to the Blackberry brand […]
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