Press Release: RIM Announces Retail Channels for BlackBerry PlayBook
BlackBerry PlayBook to be available in over 20,000 Retail Outlets in the U.S. and Canada
Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced plans to make the highly-anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet available in more than 20,000 retail outlets in the U.S. and Canada.
“The BlackBerry PlayBook is an amazing tablet that is already being widely praised as a multi-tasking powerhouse with an uncompromised web experience and an ultra-portable design,” said Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO, Research In Motion. “Given the high level of customer interest in the BlackBerry PlayBook, we are particularly pleased to be working with such an amazing lineup of retail partners.”
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BGR has broke the story and let us know that T-Mobile USA is going to be aquired by AT&T. As of now, the German provider Deutsche Telekom has exclusive rights over T-Mobile USA. According to the Press Release, the deal includes in a cash-and-stock transactions currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The agreement has also been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies.
Deutsche Telekom Chairman and CEO René Obermann said, “After evaluating strategic options for T-Mobile USA, I am confident that AT&T is the best partner for our customers, shareholders and the mobile broadband ecosystem. Our common network technology makes this a logical combination and provides an efficient path to gaining the spectrum and network assets needed to provide T-Mobile customers with 4G LTE and the best devices. Also, the transaction returns significant value to Deutsche Telekom shareholders and allows us to retain exposure to the U.S. market.”
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Poynt Application Reaches 1 Billion Interaction Milestone
March 11, 2011
Poynt Hits 6.4 Million Unique Users, Growing at 30,000 New Users Daily
CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwire – March 11, 2011) - Poynt Corporation (“Poynt Corp.” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:PYN), a leading provider of mobile local search services, today announced that over 1 billion consumer queries and resulting actions have been performed using the Poynt mobile local search application (“Poynt” or the “App”). The data includes searches within the App’s seven feature verticals: Businesses, People, Movies, Events, Gas, Restaurants and Weather as well as the behavioral data that indicates consumer intent such as clicking to call, clicking to browse and mapping directions.
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Oslo, Norway – March 8, 2011
Opera Software, the leading provider of mobile browsers around the world, today announced that the Opera Mobile Store is now open and available at mobilestore.opera.com. This storefront is a featured Speed Dial link in the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers, which makes the storefront immediately accessible by more than 100 million people who use an Opera browser on their mobile phones. The Opera Mobile Store has been built and delivered through a strategic partnership with Appia, the leading provider of open application marketplace technology. The Opera Mobile Store offers both free and paid applications for virtually any mobile platform and device. The Opera Mobile Store is available to Opera users and users of other mobile browsers, on all popular mobile phone platforms in more than 200 countries. The Opera Mobile Store uses Appia’s storefront commerce technology and leverages a wide catalog of applications for phones with Java, Symbian, BlackBerry and Android operating systems. The storefront experience is customized to each user’s phone, providing a tailored catalog based on the phone’s operating system, local language and currency.
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MISSISSAUGA, ON–(Marketwire – March 8, 2011) – Targus® Inc., maker of the world’s top-selling laptop computer cases and accessories, today announced it has become a member of the Built for BlackBerry™ program.
Last Fall, RIM announced the new Built for BlackBerry program where the products that are “Built For BlackBerry” are designed to function with BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry PlayBook. Not only will tangible parts will be constructed but the program is said to offer technical, strategic and marketing support, allowing top quality accessories specially for your BlackBerry handset. Targus’ initial Built for BlackBerry products for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet include the stylishTruss Leather and Truss Nylon Case/Stand.
“Collaborating with RIM as part of the Built for BlackBerry program allows Targus to take a more streamlined approach to designing accessories specifically for the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet,” said Al Giazzon, vice president of marketing at Targus. “We are excited to bring our versatile, yet fashionable cases to this highly-anticipated new mobile device.”
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Beacon, New York – RCP Ringtone Design announced the release of Ringtones 2.0. Ringtones 2.0 provides more than a hundred simple and elegant ringtones in M4R format for the iPhone, and MP3 format for Android, BlackBerry, and many other devices. Each tone is handcrafted and mastered to sound pristine on tiny mobile phone speakers, and the download comes with instructions for installation. A compact version of the release, “RCP Elite,” offers 30 of the tones at less than half the price.
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