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Apple Inc. (AAPL) Devices Receive Pentagon Clearance

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May 17, 2013
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) products are now cleared and ready to be used by the U.S. Military. The Defense Department made a statement on Friday claiming they approved the use of select Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) products running on iOS 6. The recent decision will likely cause a larger battle between competition from BlackBerry and Android. Earlier this month, the Pentagon approved of BlackBerry devices such as BlackBerry 10 phones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet as well as Samsung Electronics...
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Apple Inc. (AAPL) Steady, Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) Struggle, Nokia Fight

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May 17, 2013
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The latest report from Gartner on global smartphone market share revealed a lot about how Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) and Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) are doing in the smartphone race. Analysts at Raymond James took a closer look at the raw data and were able to determine several key points. Global Smartphone Growth Estimates Of course the main takeaway from the research report was that Asia and the...
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Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) Rated ‘Buy’ By Jefferies

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May 17, 2013
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Research firm Jefferies in a research report on Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) upheld the buy position for the company’s stock. Analysts from Jefferies based their ratings on the observations made by them during Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)’s conference, which is being held in Orlando. The report based their rating on the following factors: Good Support from Network carriers: According to a report, the Verizon network has made its 10,000 employees...
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Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) BBM To Become A Social Media Play

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May 16, 2013
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Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) aka BlackBerry announced at its annual BlackBerry Live Conference to launch a new device Q5 running on its BlackBerry10 OS in July. Raymond James said in its latest research report that heavy sell-in of Z10, Q10 and now Q5 around the world will improve the company’s financial trends. However, analysts remain skeptical about Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)’s service revenue stream which continues to decline. The Canadian company...
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Apple’s iOS And Google’s Android Dominate Q1: IDC

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May 16, 2013
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Smartphones based on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iOS have lost some of their market share to their Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s Android counterpart, and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows based phone performed well in the first quarter, to overtake BlackBerry for third place. As per the latest data released by IDC on Thursday for the first quarter of 2013, Apple’s iOS based devices accounted for 17.3 percent of smartphones shipped in the quarter compared to 23 percent a...
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Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) New Products Fail To Impress Analysts

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May 15, 2013
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The new product announcements of Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)  failed to lift the ratings of analysts covering its stock. Analysts believe that although the new products of the company will bring a slight positive impact, “We fail to see any of them shifting the needle given the secular pressure we see on Blackberry access fees,” according to Credit Suisse analysts. In fact, analysts at Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE:CS) were surprised that...
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Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) Wants To Make A Different Kind Of Tablet

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May 14, 2013
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Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)/BlackBerry became the subject of intense ridicule in April when the company’s CEO, Thorstein Heins, said that he didn’t see a future in tablets. Today the executive revised his comments, adding some nuance and context to the earlier claim, and made his line of thought much clearer, and less funny. At the Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)/Blackberry Blackberry Live conference, Heins spoke about his ideas on tablets in...
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Blackberry To Offer BBM For Apple And Android Phones

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May 14, 2013
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BlackBerry will soon expand their messenger to Android and iOS. At the BlackBerry Live 2013 event on Tuesday, the company announced plans to expand the popular messenger app to iOS and Android platforms. The new applications should be available by summertime and will be completely free to download.  Thursten Heins, chief executive officer for BlackBerry, explained, “It’s a statement of confidence. We are confident the time is right for BBM to be independent.” Unfortunately,...
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Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) – Q10 Demand, Q5 Announcement, BBM

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May 14, 2013
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Analysts at RBC Capital markets believe that enterprise demand could stimulate the sales of Research in Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) for its Blackberry Q10 citing that a significant number of users will potentially upgrade to the smartphone, but they think that it will take quite a time. Blackberry Q10 Sales Remain Healthy RBC Capital analysts, Mark Sue and Paul Treiber noted that Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) sell-through in Canada and United Kingdom...
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Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) Announces BlackBerry Q5

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May 14, 2013
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Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) just announced the all new Q5, which runs on company’s latest BlackBerry 10.1 operating system. The phone is a mid-range device targeted towards emerging markets, with a choice of three colors—black, white and pink. The Q5 will launch globally this summer, said Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB), at the BlackBerry Live conference on Tuesday. The device will launch in “selected markets” in...
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Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) May Announce Lower-Priced Phone

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May 14, 2013
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Chief executive Thorsten Heins will address the annual three day conference scheduled in Orlando, Fla. There are speculations that he might announce a low priced Blackberry based on OS10 in the conference. Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) has already launched two devices Blackberry Z10 and Q10 based on OS10 earlier this year, but lagged behind Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and other rivals in the timings, which benefited the rivals. Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)...
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