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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Research In Motion rebrands itself as BlackBerry — At today's BlackBerry 10 event, CEO Thorsten Heins announced that his company will no longer be known as Research In Motion. As of today, RIM is being rebranded as BlackBerry. “We have reinvented the company, and we want to represent this in our brand,” Heins said.
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Tweets: @panzer, @blackberry and @cnbc
| Walt Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry Reinvents Itself to Compete with All-Touch Smartphones — There is a new smartphone coming to market, running on a new operating system. It's an all-touch device—with no physical navigation controls and no physical keyboard—and serves as a platform for third-party apps.| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
BlackBerry Z10 official: 4.2-inch 1,280 x 768 display, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus, LTE, BB 10 for $200 — After months of rumors, speculation and official teases, [RIM's] BlackBerry's first full-touch BlackBerry 10 device — the Z10 — is finally official. Look familiar? It should.| Donny H. / Inside BlackBerry: |
BlackBerry 10 - Re-designed, Re-engineered, Re-invented — We're here at the BlackBerry 10 Live event where Thorsten Heins just announced amazing new BlackBerry 10 devices, the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10. Now it's time to recap some of the things that make the BlackBerry 10 software a truly unique and elegant experience.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
BlackBerry announces Alicia Keys as ‘Global Creative Director’ — BlackBerry has announced a new position, Global Creative Director, and hired its own in-house celebrity to fill the role: Alicia Keys. Keys was apparently chosen for renewing her “long-term relationship” …
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| Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
Blackberry Q10: The Next Generation Physical QWERTY Beast Has a Touchscreen Too — Blackberry's QWERTY handset for Blackberry 10 is here. Launched today, BB10 10 does away with a lot of baggage that has been holding the company back, but the QWERTY keyboard is here to stay.
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
BlackBerry Z10 review: a new life, or life support? — A new flagship phone and a new OS, but is it too little, too late? — Research In Motion is about to enter the battle of its life, and as you'll see in my review of its new flagship, the BlackBerry Z10, it's using everything in its arsenal to win.
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry to Launch in U.S. in Mid-March — NEW YORK—Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled two new BlackBerry phones on Wednesday crucial to the company's turnaround, but the first of the those devices won't be available in the crucial U.S. market until mid-March.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
BlackBerry Z10 on sale in UK Jan 31, Middle East & Canada Feb 15; US has mid-March wait — BlackBerry 10 is here. RIM (now known as BlackBerry) has launched the new devices and immediately the touch screen BlackBerry is open for pre-order with all four of the US's largest carriers …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
Exclusive: Nest has raised another $80M, now shipping 40K+ thermostats a month — Learning thermostat maker Nest has closed on $80 million to keep growing, and we've heard it's shipping 50,000 thermostats per month. The round was raised at an $800 million valuation and the company could reach … | Ashlee Vance / Business Week: |
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Does Not Fear Dropbox or an Office-less IPad — When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer does his bounding these days, it's often in front of an 82-inch interactive display mounted to the wall of his office. Ballmer gets to poke at the screen—a Perceptive Pixel LCD—like a more-energetic version of Wolf Blitzer.
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple's $1 Billion Verdict Against Samsung Left Intact — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s $1.05 billion damages award against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) from its patent- infringement trial in San Jose, California, was left intact after a judge denied Apple's bid to increase the award.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Seen Reporting Faster Sales Growth on Mobile-Ad Demand — Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is reaping benefits of a deeper push into mobile advertising at the social network he founded almost a decade ago. — Results due after the close of trading today … | Bloomberg: |
Dell Founder Said to Seek Majority Control Using Personal Funds — Michael Dell is seeking majority control of Dell Inc. (DELL) under the buyout that would combine his 15.7 percent stake in the company with as much as $1 billion of his personal funds, said people familiar with the matter.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
New Apple TV 3,2 is just a mid-season internal upgrade, with no external difference in size — Yesterday we brought you the news that there would be a new Apple TV model coming, but that's only partially true. There will be some changes made to the Apple TV internally …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga's chief game designer, Brian Reynolds, resigns — Brian Reynolds has a booming laugh, but it won't be heard in the halls of Zynga anymore. The company's chief game designer has resigned, according to games news site Polygon. — Zynga has confirmed the departure … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhone Users Rack Up the Highest Carrier Bills — The iPhone may command a higher carrier subsidy than its typical Android rival. It may eat into operators' profit margins when sales volumes spike after the debut of a new model. But it also generates more in carrier fees than any other smartphone.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Announces Git Support For Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server And Service — Microsoft just made a major announcement that will likely take many developers by surprise. At the ALM Summit in Redmond, WA this morning, Microsoft Brian Harry just announced that its Team Foundation Server …
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| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo Profit Rises 34% on Avoiding PC Slump, Smartphones — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, reported a 34 percent jump in third-quarter profit after increasing its market share and boosting smartphone sales.
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| C. Custer / Tech in Asia: |
China's Ministry of Culture: We're NOT Considering Lifting the Game Console Ban — As we wrote earlier this week, an anonymous source in China Daily supposedly inside the Ministry of Culture claimed that the Ministry was considering dropping China's decade-long ban on the sale of game consoles.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Wonder No More. Yandex Pulls Social Discovery App After Facebook Closes Door On Graph API Use + Says It's A Competing Search Engine — Some closure on the story of how Yandex — the Russian search giant — built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data …
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