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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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| 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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| 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.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The Keyboard Lives On As BlackBerry Unboxes BB10-Based Touch-Qwerty Hybrid Q10 — The BlackBerry keyboard is dead, long live the BlackBerry keyboard. Despite the full throttle touchscreen focus of its new mobile platform, BlackBerry 10, the company formerly known as RIM has not forgotten …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Slightly Smaller Apple TV 3,2 (A1469) Contains A5X SoC, BCM4334 Combo — Yesterday along with iOS 6.1 being pushed to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches, Apple released an update to the Apple TV 2,1 and 3,1, and curiously enough released another image for an unannounced Apple TV 3,2 product with model A1469.| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
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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.| 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 … | 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.| 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.| 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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| Nancy Hass / GQ: |
Reed Hastings on Arrested Development, House of Cards, and the Future of Netflix — The quirky little start-up that once printed money by mailing you DVDs is hell-bent on morphing into the HBO—and the network, and the any-show, any-time streaming service—of tomorrow.| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
[Exclusive] Video curation platform Magnify gets backing from former Facebooker Chris Kelly — We're in the age of billions of video clips on YouTube and other sites, and it's overwhelming. — Want to find a video of the protests in Syria? There were more than 350,000 uploaded last year to YouTube alone.
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