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BlackBerry stories: 72 news summaries

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Spring Ahead, Fall Back; Repeat

Some may have changed clocks a week early

Oct 30, 07 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spring ahead, fall back. And fall back again, for many whose clocks wrongly reset themselves last weekend—1 week ahead of the schedule Congress set when it extended Daylight Saving Time. Most cell phones and computers, which get time and date information from networks, weren't affected, but many alarm clocks... More »

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Congress • cell phones • BlackBerry • clock • time • Halloween • Daylight Saving Time • Palm Pilot • computer

BlackBerry To Grow in China

RIM takes smartphone into untapped market

Oct 24, 07 11:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - BlackBerry developer Research in Motion is pushing its smartphone into the huge Chinese market for personal communications devices, with major multinationals its first market target. Reuters reports RIM's Chinese partner, China Mobile, already has a two-thirds market share, but the Blackberry is expected to face tough opposition from a low-cost... More »

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China • wireless • Jim Balsillie • BlackBerry • smartphones • RIM • Research in Motion • China Mobile • RedBerry • Alcatel Lucent

Jobs Stats Propel Markets

Oct 5, 07 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Dow and the S&P each set intraday records after today’s unexpectedly good jobs news, and the Nasdaq hit a 7-year high. The Dow closed at 14,066.01, up 91.70 points, and the S&P climbed 14.75 to 1,557.59 after indications that a... More »

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Google • Dow Jones • BlackBerry • recession • Nasdaq • Research in Motion • tech sector • S&P 500 • job

BlackBerry Maker Beats Own Forecast

Company earns $287.7M as gadgets reach beyond work world

Oct 5, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion beat its own forecasts for the second quarter, earning profits of $287.7 million, twice what it made the same quarter last year. Earnings were predicted to jump from 50 cents a share to between 59 and 63 next quarter.The company is growing at... More »

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BlackBerry • RIM

Don't Leave
the Blackberry
Lying Around

Spouses parse through private email in search of infidelities

Sep 15, 07 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Governments and corporations aren’t the only ones parsing through private emails, the New York Times reports: The culprit is just as likely to be a spouse hunting for proof of infidelity. One divorce lawyer says that electronic evidence plays a role “in just about every case now.”... More »

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divorce • email • marriage • privacy • BlackBerry • infidelity

BlackBerries Save Vacations for Bankers
With Sand

It's required beach reading in a crisis

Aug 12, 07 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the volatile global markets continue to burn investors, tan-fan investment bankers are managing to keep tabs on crisis-threatened portfolios and still rack up required hours on the beach—with the help of their BlackBerries. The devices have become as de riguer as umbrellas and suntan oil on sands from... More »

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investors • beach • BlackBerry • market • global economy • vacation • European Central Bank • investment bankers • global market

(Newser) - The Software & Information Industry Association has rolled out its list of the top 10 e-commerce developments of the past decade:
  1. Google (Sept. 1998)
  2. Broadband Penetration of U.S. Internet Users Reaches 50% (June 2004)
  3. eBay Auctions (launched Sept. 1997)
  4. Amazon.com (IPO May 1997):
  5. Google Ad Words
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Google • eBay • broadband Internet • user generated content • iTunes • list • BlackBerry • open standards • SIIA • WiFi • AdSense • Amazon.com

French Government Develops BlackBerry Allergy

Security concerns prompt ban for top-level officials

Jun 20, 07 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - BlackBerrys may feel like tools of high-tech spycraft, but they're not—or so the manufacturer is attempting to convince the French government. Worried that American intelligence could intercept transmissions from the addictive devices, the government has renewed an apparently futile 18-month-old ban on high-level officials' use, according to the Times ... More »

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Research In Motion • France • BlackBerry • French government • encryption

iPhone Rings High Note
for Apple

Smartphone may surpass hype,
drive stock up to $160

Jun 7, 07 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - With buzz over Apple's new iPhone vibrating on high, investors are betting that Apple's stock—which has doubled in the past year to $122 per share—will climb to upwards of $160. The iPhone hits stores June 29, and is set to achieve Apple's once far-fetched goal of selling 10... More »

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stock market • iPhone • Apple • mac • stocks • iPod • buzz • BlackBerry • smartphones • gadget

Nashville Doesn't Take to the Ice

Canadian billionaire may move
Predators north of the border

May 25, 07 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - BlackBerry magnate Jim Balsillie will pay $220 million for the Nashville Predators, one of the NHL's best and lowest-revenue teams, and likely move them out of Tennessee. Possible new homes include Kansas City, which is courting teams for its new arena, and Kitchener-Waterloo and Hamilton in Ontario, threatening the theft... More »

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NHL • Pittsburgh Penguins • Kansas City • Nashville Predators • Jim Balsillie • BlackBerry • hockey • Tennessee • Craig Leipold

BlackBerry Blackout Lasts 12 Hours

Millions of data and email addicts left jonesing during service outage

Apr 19, 07 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five million BlackBerry scrollers in the U.S. and Asia were stymied for 12 hours over Tuesday night and yesterday morning while Research in Motion frantically fixed a service outage. Early-riser Wall Streeters working on deals with London were particularly annoyed by the downtime. Experts surmise the blackout was a... More »

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technology • wireless • United Kingdom • Research In Motion • BlackBerry • US economy

Congress Probes Private White House E-Mails

May have breached post-Watergate law

Apr 10, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Use of private e-mail accounts by White House officials is being probed by Democratic lawmakers who charge that they were employed to avoid scrutiny. Accounts set up by the Republican National Committee are intended to keep political activities separate from official business, but they were used in planning the firings... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • politics • RNC • Watergate • Henry Waxman • BlackBerry • scandal

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