Big things are coming
Posted Oct 18, 2011 07:42:47 AM.
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Research in Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie is promising big things at a company event in San Francisco starting today.
The blackberry boss is looking to rebuild user and developer confidence in RIM’s future after last week’s BlackBerry blackout.
It’s been described as the most difficult year in the history of research in motion, a loss of marketshare in the smartphone industry, underwhelming sales for the playbook tablet, last week’s email meltdown and a 60% drop in the stock price.
Jim Balsillie tells The Globe and Mail, that it all changes today at the start of an apps developer conference in San Francisco.
His challenge will be to persuade developers that it’s worth the effort to create software applications.
Balsillie tells the Globe that observers will be blown away by a slew of announcements rim plans to make and how they’ve “intercepted the future.
Analysts believe RIM will launch new software that runs e-mail and other vital applications on the PlayBook tablet along with new details about the upcoming line of RIM smart phones due out early next year, which run on a new operating system, called QNX.
Follow this link to the RIM website to watch the presentation live in a webcast beginning at 11:30am Eastern time.
