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RIM PlayBook trumps new iPad in UK channel sales - analyst

'As good as Apple's tab but half the price' Oh, BURN

16GB BlackBerry PlayBook flushed away by RIM

Disties and retailers flogging last dregs

RIM demos PlayBook OS2

CES 2012 Finally, native email... a month from now

RIM swallows $485m charge to clear PlayBook tablet mountain

Lowers Q3 sales outlook, takes $50m hit from service outage
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Price-slashing fails to ignite PlayBook sales

RIM's little-loved fondleslab is failing to get the tills ringing, even after significant price cuts, channel partners have claimed. BlackBerry PlayBook prices were cut by $200 in the US last month as retailers cried out for something extra to help shift mountain mounting stock levels estimated at some half a million units …
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PlayBook stock mountain: RIM slashes prices

RIM has started to slash prices for its little-loved BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in the US amid channel talk on this side of the pond that the fondleslabs are shifting more slowly than expected and inventory levels are out of control. The troubled Canadian firm is taking a lead from HP which saw demand for its TouchPad go through …
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RIM cuts PlayBook sales forecast, report says

Summer sales boost on improved models
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Next from Microsoft: 'Blue', the Windows 8 they hope you don't hate

Windows Blue - the supposedly leaked sequel to Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system - will apparently look a lot more like Windows Phone 8 and allow users to further personalise their computers. Copies of what appears to be build 9364 of Windows Blue are circulating on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks; once the alpha-grade …

BlackBerry results not as bad as they possibly could have been

Year-end financial results from BlackBerry appear to show a company stemming the losses and slowly gaining ground, but with a very long climb ahead and no proof it's going to make it. Revenue for the year ending March 2 was $11.1bn, resulting in a loss of $646m, which is grim compared to last years' profit of $1.1bn - but wasn't …

RIM's co-CEOs quit in top exec shake-up

Will it be too little, too late?

Desperate RIM in 'buy two PlayBooks, get one free' offer

Plus leather slab-sleeve for unloved stroker

John Lewis agrees to flog Microsoft's Surface RT tablets

'Demand for Windows 8 has been phenomenal'

PlayBooks lapped up from RIM by distributors

Update Q4 shipments up as discounts tweak interest

Barclays knocks RIM shares down a peg

BlackBerry crumbles in the eyes of investors

Who will fill legal RIM job after latest exec exit?

Chief brief Karima Bawa retires amid mass exodus

RIM delays BlackBerry 10 launch, bins 5000 bods

What's that smell? Yes, it's death

Top RIM jobs were too powerful and had to go - inquiry

BlackBerry biz shakeup demanded by independent review
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Kindle Fire ignites blazing developer interest

Amazon's Kindle Fire has built up quite a head of steam among gadget fans in anticipation of its Tuesday release – and now a new survey shows that that developers are feeling the warmth, as well. "What we asked in our survey was, 'Okay, Mr. Developer, you've been looking at tablets for the last year, what do you make of the …

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Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to

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