RIM facing layoffs, expects lower profits as it sets to realign

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Research in Motion is going to need to innovate its way out of the corner. The BlackBerry maker held an earnings call today and said it expects lower profits and is looking at reducing headcount. During the same conference call, RIM confirmed it had shipped 500,000 units of its PlayBook tablet since the device launched in April, although it was not specified how many of these were actually sold to customers.

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Happy 100th IBM!

Happy 100th birthday IBM! Thanks for making the ThinkPad, for Watson, for Deep Blue, the Selectric Typewriter, the PowerPC, RISC processors and the best PC keyboards ever. Head on over to the IBM Centennial page to wish Big Blue a happy birthday.

Video: Samsung Galaxy S II and Infuse Android smartphones

They're thin, they're fast and they're the cutting edge of Android smartphones in terms of specs and size. Coming to Canada soon, these are the Galaxy S II and the Infuse.

Review: HTC Flyer 7" inch 16GB WiFi tablet

Text and photos Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

At first glance, one could find many things wrong with the HTC Flyer WiFi tablet. It runs a non-tablet version of Android, it uses a single-core Snapdragon processor, its screen is only 7" inches wide and it has a $80 digital pen that works mostly on HTC Sense overlay.

So, why is it one of the most desirable devices we've seen in a long time? We spent a week with HTC Flyer and tried to dig deeper.

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