by Saeed Khan Everyone knows that when building technology products, one of the key tasks is to prioritize requirements — what features are “must have” vs. optional or “nice to have” [ … ]
Category: Blackberry
The New RIM – Relaunching a Former Industry Juggernaut
by Saeed Khan Back in May 2011, I wrote the following post: Addressing Market Shifts or Why RIM is not down and out just yet. As the news of RIM’s [ … ]
Addressing Market Shifts or Why RIM is not down and out just yet
by Saeed Khan If you’ve read anything about Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) lately, it’s likely that the news has not been good. Whether it was the underwhelming response [ … ]
How to dominate your competition – learn from Apple
by Saeed Khan Did you notice what Apple did this past week? Yes, they announced the iPad 2, but it’s worth taking a look at the details of the announcement [ … ]
The secret to Apple’s success?
If there’s one company that is the envy of the high-tech community these days, it’s Apple. Steve Jobs is hailed as a genius CEO and lauded for a string of [ … ]
Taking the “mess” out of Messaging (part 4)
This is part 4 of the series. Here are links to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. In this part, I’ll take a look at whether the industry can [ … ]
Partnering for Strategic Breakthroughs
I thought I’d give this one a dry title – it’s really about the iPhone again. But I thought people would be pretty tired of iPhone posts by now. So, [ … ]
Honey, I bought the Phone. Confessions from the Cambridge Apple Store.
I have a perfectly good Blackberry 8200 series, but I’ve been waiting for a chance to hit the Apple store to check out the iPhone. If you’ve been reading our [ … ]
RIM on the iPhone
In a recent conference call, RIM co-founder Jim Balsillie gave his two cents on how much the iPhone is keeping him awake at night: “I think there’s so many dimensions [ … ]
iPhone vs Blackberry: Fight!
Read/WriteWeb weighs in, along with 97% of the blogosphere (aka 0.0000001% of humanity), on the iPhone. Specifically, the iPhone vs the Blackberry. Their conclusion: “Watch out Blackberry!” My conclusion? Get a paper bag and breathe deeply for a few minutes because hyperventilation can be dangerous guys.