RIM Doesn’t Need BlackBerry 10 — It Needs a Time Machine
Research in Motion‘s latest quarter almost doesn’t need commentary. With revenues down 19% and posting its first loss in seven years, the company is clearly on the decline. The dismal financial news follows the revelation that BlackBerry phones were no longer the device of choice even in RIM’s home country of Canada.
Mashable
TELUS’ Lower International Roaming Rates Promo Extended Until June 30th
Last June TELUS slashed their international roaming rates to the tune of 60%. According to Brent Johnston, TELUS’ VP of Mobility Marketing, this “still allows us to be profitable.” The per-minute or per-MB rate were cut in the following locations: Western Europe, Mexico, Oceania, Caribbean/Latin America, Eurasia, Africa and satellite locations (cruise ships and airplanes). This was set to expire but it seems that TELUS will be extending the promo until June 30th, 2012.
MobileSyrup
Facebook’s Mobile Viral Channels Are Working For Wooga, Europe’s Biggest Social Gaming Company
Viral channels are slowly and inevitably starting to matter for mobile game developers. For ages, many top developers would try and climb up the charts through a combination of mobile advertising, offer walls, free app promotions or more nefariously, download bots. But as the charts have been become crowded with north of a half-million apps and as Apple has clamped down on less savory means of acquiring users like bots, other ways of getting users are becoming more important.
TechCrunch
Samsung Display Spinoff Officially Launches as 'The World's Largest Display Manufacturer'
Just as planned, Samsung has formally separated from its display business, which will begin solo operations "in earnest" April 3rd. The newly created -- and still 100 percent Samsung Electronics owned -- Samsung Display comes into existence immediately as "the world's largest display manufacturer" with 20,000 employees and five production facilities around the world.
Engadget