Research In Motion has revealed that it will be streaming live coverage of BlackBerry World 2012. RIM's annual event, held in Orlando, starts tomorrow.
Users will be able to watch conference events on their computers via webcasts. it all begins tomorrow with CEO Thorsten Heins' keynote presentation at 9am EST. And for those on Twitter, follow #BBWC and #BBTweetUp to keep up with the action.
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With nearly three weeks left to go, Pebble keeps on rolling. Now with an incredible 48,000 backers, the Canadian-born Pebble smartwatch has raised a staggering $7.2 million—more than double the previous record for a Kickstarter campaign. Can Waterloo's Allerta raise a legendary $10 million from an online crowdsourcing site? If it can, the Canadian startup will set a new precedent for how companies generate funds.
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Can RIM's global market share fall below 5%? It's a scary thought, but RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue believes it's all too possible.
Mark forecasts RIM will sell just 9 million BlackBerrys this quarter, below the going estimation of 10.5. And although he acknowledged that "RIM has no debt," Mark warned clients that if things keep going south, "RIM may burn cash next year."
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The inception of Electric Courage began with a thrilling moment; in fact, it’s one that some (many) of us would be familiar with:
“The idea stemmed from one of the conversations we were having as a group. My teammate was telling us about a conference he was attending the week prior and how he locked eyes with a girl from across the room. He was dead sure that she also thought they had a moment but, by the time he had decided to go back and introduce himself, she was nowhere to be found. A few hours passed and he was on a flight back home. We realized that we'd all had moments like that in our lives and thought: why not see if we can figure out a way to solve this? Electric Courage was born,” explained Duncan Bays, a co-founder of Electric Courage.
Bays met his co-founders Holly Smith, JP Leroux, and Shahed Al-Haque at last year’s Next 36competition.
read moreStrategy Analytics predicts that, globally, combined consumer and advertiser expenditure on mobile media—which includes handset browsing, mobile applications, mobile games, mobile music, mobile video, mobile TV, ringtones, wallpapers and alerts, and associated data—will rise at a 8.4% compound annual growth rate, from below $150 billion at the end of 2012 to $224 billion by 2017.
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Imagine being able to end your three-year smartphone contract early without fuss or hassle—and only pay up to a modest $50 in cancellation fees. Nova Scotia is hoping to make this pipe dream a reality.
The province has proposed numerous new safeguards in an effort to enhance consumer rights. The main changes are letting customers cancel their contracts "at any time" and limiting cancellation fees to "no more than $50." (Note that customers would still have to buy out their subsidized device with an early exit).
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Research In Motion will make a comeback. It just won't be for another few years.
That's the sentiment of Prem Watsa. The head of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Prem owns north of 5% of RIM thanks to a few recent investments of substantial size.
He says RIM has no shot of turning around in three or even nine months. Rather, the timeline for a comeback looks more like four or five years. RIM, he affirms, will end up "an amazing success story" in the long run.
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Professionally minded social network LinkedIn has at long last launched an app dedicated to tablets. Available for iOS on the iPad and on Android devices, the tablet-optimized app is slick, featuring a Flipboard-style news feed and sleek design throughout.
LinkedIn also revealed an interesting statistic: 22% of the site's traffic comes from mobile devices. Knowing this, it becomes surprising that LinkedIn waited to long to release an iPad app. But with how polished this first version appears, it seems that they simply decided to take some time to get it right.
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Had a bad restaurant experience? Want to thank a retail employee that went the extra mile but have no time to fill out a comment card?
ChattBack may be able to help you out.
The Vancouver startup makes it possible to give instant feedback, via a text message, directly to the owner. With ChattBack customers can privately text head honchos compliments, complaints, and suggestions, all on their smartphone.
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If apps and devices have the power to make our lives easier and more enjoyable, they also have the power to change people’s lives. Putting new technology to good use, the Société de Transport de Laval, which manages the city’s public transit system just North of Montreal, is working on an app aimed at travellers with mental disabilities and pervasive development disorders.
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