Struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has warned it will have an operating loss in the current March-June quarter and said there will be significant layoffs this year.

Struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has said it will cede most consumer markets after failing to compete with flashier touch-screen handsets such as Apple’s iPhone and models that run Google’s Android software.

Research In Motion’s new leader said yesterday the Blackberry maker did not need seismic change, a declaration seized on by impatient investors who pledge Thorsten Heins will be an interim chief executive if he does not turn RIM around quickly.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion’s co-chief executives, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, are stepping down, the company said today.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has said new phones deemed critical to the company’s future will not be out until late next year.

BlackBerry users will be hoping for an end to days of chaos after the smartphone’s maker announced “significant improvement” to its services today.

Disruption to BlackBerry services entered a third day today with fed-up users reporting further problems.

Waterloo, Ontario: Research In Motion is releasing three new versions of its BlackBerry smartphone simultaneously in the first overhaul of the handsets in a year as the company tries to regain ground against Apple.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is to cut 2,000 jobs as part of a cost saving plan amounting to about 10% of the company’s workforce.

THE iPad 2 went on sale in countries across Asia and beyond yesterday as Apple’s updated gadget entered an ever more crowded market.

THE world’s leading mobile phone maker Nokia is filing a fresh complaint against Apple for patent infringement in “virtually all” of Apple’s devices.

The United Arab Emirates today backed off a threat to cut key BlackBerry services, just days before a ban was set to take effect that could have harmed the country’s business-friendly reputation.

BLACKBERRY maker Research in Motion (RIM) is taking on iPad in the table computer game with a “PlayBook” aimed to capitalise on its strength – the trust of business users keen on secure communications.

RAPID career progress is a distinct possibility for the 50 people who will be recruited at the newly opened Cork office of handheld device specialist OtterBox.

INDIA says it won’t ban BlackBerry services for at least 60 days, easing up on the threat levelled over access to encrypted data.

India postponed a ban on BlackBerry mobiles today after threatening to shut the service down in a dispute over access to the encoded emails of users.

The Indian government will decide today whether to ban some BlackBerry mobile phone services in a row over security.

INDIA’S home ministry held top-level talks with intelligence services yesterday to discuss suspending BlackBerry services if the smartphone’s makers do not satisfy security concerns.

Waterloo: Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple’s iPad, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans.

NOKIA’s chief executive is coming under increasing pressure, as the world’s biggest mobile phone maker saw its earnings slump in the face of competition from Apple and RIM in the key smartphone segment.

Technology company Research In Motion - which makes the Blackberry line of devices - has rubbished Apple's claims that there are reception issues with all smartphones.

BLACKBERRY will release the latest version of its email enabled mobile phone later this month in an ongoing technology battle with rivals Apple and Nokia.

BLACKBERRY handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful — and now, a threat to French state secrets.

French defence experts are advising government officials to avoid using BlackBerry handheld computers because of fears that secrets could be put at risk.

US stocks finished an uneven session mixed today as investors grappled with the implications of a terror attack against a Saudi Arabian oil processing plant and a surprising decrease in factory orders.

Vodafone and Microsoft joined forces today to launch a corporate email service to rival the BlackBerry.