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? :)