Music Store for BlackBerry now available in Canada

Music Store is now available for download on BlackBerry App World. With the Music Store, you can discover great new tracks, purchase and download them right away, and tell your inner circle about your favourites. Fun, easy, and quick, the music store gives you music on the move – the way it was meant to be.

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CES 2012 Video: PlayBook OS 2.0 Running Android

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Jonathan Wong, Senior Product Manager for  RIM, demonstrated how Android apps will be able to run on the PlayBook on OS 2.0 shown at CES 2012 in Las Vegas.

SourceCode: RIM's Year of Living Dangerously

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

2011 has been Research In Motion’s annus horribilis. The past 12 months, the BlackBerry maker has often found itself in the news and on the defensive for a long list of truly unfortunate and often embarrassing reasons. But how serious is the situation at RIM?

The company was worth more than $70 billion a few years ago and today has a market value of around $8 billion. In 2004, RIM's stock value was $144 a share, when the markets closed Friday it was $13.44 a share.

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PlayBook discounts to cost RIM US $485 Million

RIM said it has taken a US $485 million hit because of heavy discounts to its BlackBerry PlayBook and as a result expects to miss its financial targets for the year. The October week-long service outage that affected users in various countries also cost the company $50 milliion.

RIM began discounting the PlayBook recently, shaving off $300 from the tablet's price and as a result the devices have been selling steadily. Many hope that with more PlayBooks in the hands of customers that RIM's discounting will pay off for them in the long run.