While there have been leaks aplenty over the summer
The Daily Roundup for 02.28.2013
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
The Daily Roundup for 01.16.2013
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
BlackBerry App World to sell music and movies, open to BB 10 app submissions on October 10th
Posted in: Today's ChiliIn addition to sharing new details about its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 OS, RIM used today’s BlackBerry Jam keynote to make an announcement about App World. The company just revealed that in addition to applications and games, the store will sell music, movies and TV shows — a move that brings it more in line with rival stores like Google Play and Apple’s App Store. That should please App World’s 80 million subscribers (a nice little figure RIM dropped in its keynote just now). Another stat: there are currently 105,000 apps in the store, with 3 billion downloads logged since the store’s opening. And, RIM says, BB 10 applications will join the herd soon: the company will begin accepting submissions on October 10th. Get it? BB 10 on 10/10? Clever, Thorsten.
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Thorsten Heins talks BB10 delay, promises to ‘reinstall faith in RIM’ in January with full touch device
Posted in: Today's ChiliDespite all the doom and gloom at RIM of late, CEO Thorsten Heins is a long, long way from throwing in the towel. After denying a “death spiral” and responding directly to Globe & Mail reader questions, he sat down with CIO‘s Al Sacco to talk about what he sees coming next year — and why we’re going to have to wait another couple of months for BB10. The reason for delay, he says, “is not because we added stuff to it. The delay is because our software groups were actually so successful in coding the various feature components… we got overwhelmed by integration efforts.” In other words, the company didn’t add too much stuff, there simply was too much stuff. That’s a very different state of affairs.
That being the state of play, the decision to delay again was a natural one, says Heins. “What I commit to the public out there is that when we ship BlackBerry 10, we will do it at high quality.” And he, of course, has high hopes for what they ship. “In January with the full touch device and the QWERTY coming, I think we will reinstall faith in RIM.” That seems to imply a January release for the device, or at least a final media unveiling, which could make the 2013 CES RIM’s last, best hope.
Thorsten Heins talks BB10 delay, promises to ‘reinstall faith in RIM’ in January with full touch device originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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