THE Tech Scoop » Research In Motion http://www.thetechscoop.net Your World and the Technology That Goes With It Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:15:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 RIM Wants To #BeBold in 2012 http://www.thetechscoop.net/2012/01/31/rim-wants-to-bebold-in-2012/ http://www.thetechscoop.net/2012/01/31/rim-wants-to-bebold-in-2012/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:16:22 +0000 James Hicks http://www.thetechscoop.net/?p=26717 I can honestly say I feel a bit sorry for RIM users and employees (not for their “leadership” team). It’s the users who love their BlackBerry devices and who sincerely want a quality product.

But when you have an executive team that has been caught up in all the nonsense they have as of late, and a new executive team running marketing campaigns such as this #BeBold one – man it hurts.

I do like the pretty colors in the infographic though.

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]]> http://www.thetechscoop.net/2012/01/31/rim-wants-to-bebold-in-2012/feed/ 3 The Queen Gets a New Blackberry http://www.thetechscoop.net/2010/07/06/the-queen-gets-a-new-blackberry/ http://www.thetechscoop.net/2010/07/06/the-queen-gets-a-new-blackberry/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:50:11 +0000 James Hicks http://www.thetechscoop.net/?p=9058 queenblackberry The Queen Gets a New BlackberryOTTAWA (AFP) – Queen Elizabeth II received a BlackBerry handset as a gift on Monday while touring the Canadian headquarters of its maker, Research in Motion.

The monarch is said to be a fan of the popular smartphones, ever since her her son, Prince Andrew, introduced her to them a few years ago.

Company co-founder Mike Lazaridis presented queen with the most current model, the BlackBerry Bold 9700, personalized with an image of area school children offering her flowers.

Dressed in a creme-colored hat and a white smock, Elizabeth was also given a rare glimpse inside the Waterloo, Ontario factory where the devices are made.

The site was described in pool reports as a cavernous, white room dotted with spotless workstations and large automated machines.

The polished floors are marked with yellow stickers warning people that they are entering an “electrostatic sensitive” area. The smocks worn by the queen and her entourage, including by a red-clad Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer over his uniform, guard against electrostatic shocks.

ATT WhiteBold 300x249 The Queen Gets a New BlackberryCanada’s titular head of state was greeted inside by dozens of workers in blue smocks who would normally be busy on their computers designing and making the latest smartphones.

According to a spokeswoman for RIM, it was the first time media have been allowed on RIM’s workfloor.

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