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BlackBerry • 30 Jan 2013

BlackBerry 10 launches, RIM is renamed to BlackBerry

By Martin Carstens

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Welcome back, RIM, or shall we say BlackBerry. CEO Thorstein Heins confirmed the rumours. Research In Motion has been renamed and will now be known as Blackberry.

We had a front-row seat to arguably one of the most anticipated mobile industry product launches in recent times. RIM unleashed BlackBerry 10 today.

BlackBerry held simultaneous launch events in Dubai, Toronto, London, Paris and Johannesburg with video being streamed from New York. Although the Canadian smartphone maker had a hard time keeping details about its new flagship devices secret in the run-up to launch day, it still managed to reveal a few surprises during its unveiling ceremony today.

Martin Carstens

Twitter rolls out photo and video viewing tweaks

News • 31 Jan 2013

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