BlackBerry Is Behind In Web Traffic

According to a AdMob report, iPhone leads in Web Traffic in Apple, while BlackBerry is in a distance third place.

Source: AdMob

Yahoo! Mobile For BlackBerry Get Cancelled

An interesting development at Yahoo. Here is an email received by a Yahoo! Mobile Beta user.

From: Yahoo! Mobile beta
ReplyTo: xxxxx
Subject: Yahoo! Mobile for smartphones beta update
Sent: May 18, 2009 8:30 AM

After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to cease development of Yahoo! Mobile for smartphones effective Wednesday, May 20th.

Moving forward, we will be focusing our efforts on the newly-launched Yahoo! Mobile experience for browsers (available at new.m.yahoo.com) and for the iPhone (available via the Apple App Store).

The feedback we’ve received from our beta testers during this program has been extremely helpful in improving the customer experience across all of our Yahoo! Mobile products. We hope you’ve enjoyed being a beta tester and that you’ll continue to provide passionate input to us regarding our products.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. If you have further feedback or any other questions, please contact customer care.

Many thanks,
The Yahoo! Mobile team

RIM has no netbook plans

RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie has promised that the company will stay focused on phones, despite its competitors - particularly Nokia - talking about diversifying to netbooks and laptops.

Balsillie said the company has no interest in adding a netbook to RIM's product line. The only netbook Balsillie is interested in is one "you can hold up to your ear and clip onto your belt." In other words, a BlackBerry. Anything larger just won't cut it, as a parade of discontinued non-phone portable hardware has already shown us. "These devices don’t work," he said.

Interestingly, Apple has a similar view on netbooks. Asked about Apple's interest in the category during an late April earnings calls, COO Tim Cook said it has none.

SAP CRM Available on BlackBerry Smartphones

The new BlackBerry Sales Client for SAP CRM, which was recognized at SAPPHIRE 2009 with an SAP Pinnacle Award for Innovation, is now available from RIM, giving sales reps simple, secure, real-time access to customer information in SAP CRM with the same seamless and intuitive experience they have come to expect from BlackBerry smartphones. The new solution is being showcased by SAP and RIM at SAPPHIRE.

Details are here.

RIM Chief Bids for NHL's Coyotes

Jim Balsillie, the co-chief executive of Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, made a $212.5 million offer to buy the National Hockey League's Phoenix Coyotes on Tuesday, following the team's unexpected bankruptcy filing, which was announced by the team's owner.

The offer is conditional on the team relocating to Southern Ontario, according to a statement by Balsillie.

Details here.

Google Apps Will Soon Connects With BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Google Apps Connector for BES will offer:

• Gmail with push support, offline access, read/delete sync, spam filtering, and support for archiving/stars right.
• One-way sync (GCal > BlackBerry) with Google Calendar, with support for recurring meetings and meeting notification alerts.
• Two-way sync for contacts.

Google is currently beta testing Apps Connector with "select companies and universities", with free availability to all Premier/Education customers come July.

Here is the full article

J.P. Morgan Upgraded RIM

A little over a month after J.P. Morgan downgraded RIM, it raised its rating to neutral from underweight and set a $74 price target - well above its prior $40 stock call.
If people bought the stock when JP downgraded it and sell today when it upgrades, it seems a very good return. A reverse indicator? :)

The Best-Selling Smartphone in the U.S. in Q1

BlackBerry Curve move past Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in Q1 of 2009, according to a market research report Monday.

RIM's consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in the first quarter versus the prior quarter, as Apple's and Palm's share both declined 10 percent each.

Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group Inc. said that the top five best-selling smartphones in the quarter were:

1) BlackBerry Curve

2) Apple's iPhone 3G (all models)

3) BlackBerry Storm

4) BlackBerry Pearl (all models except flip)

5) T-Mobile G1

HP CloudPrint for BlackBerry Smartphones

HP CloudPrint for BlackBerry smartphones is a web services based solution that allows users to print emails, documents, photos and web pages using a BlackBerry smartphone, wherever they are – in the office, at home or on the road.

The CloudPrint service enables mobile users to easily print to the nearest printer. The service is printer-agnostic and driverless and requires simple Internet access. HP and RIM plan to make CloudPrint available to BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers as well as BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers.

RIM Released a New BlackBerry Push API

RIM is extending its existing, well-proven push technology from the enterprise into the consumer space, allowing developers to leverage push technology for BlackBerry applications targeted at consumers. Push technology provides a proactive mechanism for developers to deliver data to BlackBerry smartphones as it becomes available. It brings immediacy to mobile communications with real-time content, preserves battery life, and minimizes data usage by eliminating the need for "poking" and "polling" servers. RIM's unique push technology significantly enhances the user experience and provides a proactive mechanism for developers to deliver data to BlackBerry smartphones as the data becomes available.