Research in Motion will reportedly lay off 2,000 of its employees, or about 10 percent of its total workforce, according to a press release issued this morning. The move comes as part of a “workforce reduction” following the company’s rapid expansion which lead to quadruple growth in its team over the past five years.
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The BlackBerry PlayBook has not been getting great reviews so far but RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie (not the one who stormed out of a BBC interview) is still uber-confident about the tablet. In fact, he’s so confident that he batted away complaints about the BlackBerry PlayBook’s lack of a native email client in an interview with Bloomberg…
Though Blackberry apps aren’t nearly as plentiful as Android or iPhone apps, RIM CEO Jim Balsillie says we shouldn’t worry about all that. We suspect he’s more than a little peeved that Steve Jobs crowed during the recent Apple earnings call: “We’ve now past RIM and I don’t see them catching up to us in the near future!” Read on for the RIM boss’ response…
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There’s no denying the BlackBerry Storm had a buggy introduction. It suffered crashes, freezes and all manner of strange volume issues. But far from apologising for its shonky software, the man in charge of BlackBerry just claimed crumbly smartphone software is part of a “new reality”.