References: InfoWorld‚ 2009‚ BlackBerry still targeting businesses Retrieved 9 April‚ 2012 from http://www.infoworld.com/t/networking/blackberry-still-targeting- businesses-721 http://www.scribd.com/doc/49627720/Blackberry-Brand-Image-Analysis Canalys Estimates‚ 2009‚ Smart phones defy slowdown - Nokia retains lead‚ with Apple and RIM rising fast‚ but Microsoft loses ground
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money for users thus resulting in high profit to the hotel and better services to the customers. General Terms Mobile Application‚ Online Hotel Reservations‚ Smart phone‚ Keywords Hotels‚ Reservation‚ Rooms‚ Advertisement‚ Smart phone‚ Blackberry‚ 1. INTRODUCTION It is no wonder that booking hotel rooms can now be done in a more convenient way today. If a certain traveler is planning to visit a foreign place‚ it would be hard for them if he/she does not have a hotel or residence to
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Case Study- Research in Motion (RIM) “Leading the Way the World Communicates” “It is the partnership and teamwork that underpinned the company and transformed the world!” The blackberry has challenged a number of very basic concepts in work and life. It eliminates distance and time and challenges the boundaries between work and home. It has enabled us to do things that would have been impossible 10 years ago. As a company itself RIM breaks the status quo by encouraging teamwork‚ empowering
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Lymms Blackberry case analysis [Type the document subtitle] By Ling‚Stephenia‚Yana‚Mat‚Mahran 10/17/2009 Table of Contents Case background RIM Company history RIM is the fastest growing company in the world Year RIM Events Blackberry features Consumer 1984 began the small entrepreneurial business 1992 The first product two-page pager 1998 first blackberry : wireless hand six lines of text display‚ basic e-mail 1997 toronto stock exchange
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Course : BEPC-1 Nowadays‚ many people uses Blackberry and its application Blackberry Messenger. According to the press release‚ from RIM (Research In Motion)‚ the manufacturer of Blackberry‚ during DEVCON 2010‚ RIM at that point had 28 million users on BBM. We can assume that the number have already gotten higher now. What is Blackberry Messenger (BBM)? In general‚ BBM is a proprietary Internet-based instant messenger application include on Blackberry (BB) devices that allows messaging between BB
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standardization and compatibility are important‚ maintaining the integrity of the core product is absolutely essential‚ and external development can put it at risk (Schilling‚ 2011‚ p. 205 Ebook).” The focus of this paper is about the history of BlackBerry‚ formerly known as Research in Motion (RIM). Research in Motion (RIM)‚ was founded by Mike Lazaridis of the University of Waterloo and Douglas Fregin of Windsor University in 1984; both of these men were Canadian engineering students. The company
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Placing products in the BCG matrix results in 4 categories in a portfolio of a company: BCG STARS (high growth‚ high market share) - Stars are defined by having high market share in a growing market. - Stars are the leaders in the business but still need a lot of support for promotion a placement. - If market share is kept‚ Stars are likely to grow into cash cows. BCG QUESTION MARKS (high growth‚ low market share) - These products are in growing markets but have low market share. - Question
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everything in life eventually comes to and end. Seamus Heaney depicts this advancement of time in "Blackberry Picking" by combining both pleasing and harsh words to describe the blackberries at the time they ere picked and at a later date. The poem begins with a straightforward description of the act of the blackberries maturing. "Late August‚ given heavy rain and sun/ For a full week‚ the blackberries would ripen" (ll 1-2). These opening lines set a mood of peacefulness and tranquility which ill
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Boston Consultancy Group (BCG Matrix) This product portfolio matrix classifies product lines into four categories. The BCG models suggests that organisations should have a healthy balance of products within their range. The Boston Consultancy Group classified these products as following: Dogs These are products which have low market shares and low market growth rates. The options for many companies is to phase these products out‚ however some organisation do go for the strategy of
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was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Waterloo‚ Ontario‚ Canada but has multinational operations with offices in North America‚ Asia-Pacific and Europe. The company is a leader in Smartphone and wireless technology and the parent company of BlackBerry products. RIM is involved in all aspects of its main product line from design through manufacturing and marketing wireless solutions geared toward providing a wireless voice and data solution to businesses worldwide. Presently‚ the company’s research
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