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RIM reportedly firing up to 6,000 in $1 billion savings drive

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RIM reportedly firing between 2,000 6,000 in $1 billion savings drive

The Waterloo Record is reporting that RIM is laying off a portion of its workforce as part of its cost-cutting review process. It's believed that between 2,000 and 6,000 employees could be let go as the troubled company attempts to save $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year. Company watcher Martin Chmiel took to Twitter to say that the manufacturing team had been hardest hit, with hundreds of people departing in the past 24 hours.

RIM reportedly firing up to 6,000 in $1 billion savings drive originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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RIM’s Chief Legal Officer is latest exec to leave the company

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RIM's Chief Legal Officer is latest exec to leave the companyThe trickle of departures from RIM may turn into a flood in the coming weeks if recent reports are to be believed, but things aren't staying at a standstill in the interim. The company's Chief Legal Officer Karima Bawa has today become the latest top executive to leave the BlackBerry-maker, ending a career with the company that began way back in 2000. That follows last week's departure of another longtime company vet, global sales head Patrick Spence, although Bawa is said to simply be retiring, not moving to another company. According to RIM, Bawa will also stay on to help with the hiring and training of her replacement.

RIM's Chief Legal Officer is latest exec to leave the company originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 May 2012 16:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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RIM patent proposes battery-charging cellphone holster

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Even after the many announcements at this year's BlackBerry World Conference, Waterloo is keeping that patent train a-rollin'. In a filing granted today, we get a glimpse of what RIM could have up its sleeve, er, on its hip. The claims detail flexible batteries built into holsters that recharge your phone when you're on the go -- all the while communicating to your BB's CPU to bring you alerts through its own speakers -- thus avoiding muffled sounds from covered parts. That's all well and good, but here's the real question: will these things eventually play nice with fuel cell-powered Berries?

RIM patent proposes battery-charging cellphone holster originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 May 2012 20:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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RIM patents trapezoidal BlackBerry keyboards for slanty-thumbed texters

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ImageRIM patents trapezoidal BlackBerry keyboards for slanty-thumbed texters

RIM is utterly devoted to the physical keyboard, but how do you deal with sausage-fingered emailers who can't pick out individual keys? Thanks to this newly-granted 2009 patent, the company has the solution -- a trapezoidal keyboard designed to offer easier access of type-weary thumbs and wider keys for better accuracy. We hope that in a windowless office in Waterloo, some engineer will combine elements from all this patenting activity and come up with the next generation of mobile telephone.

RIM patents trapezoidal BlackBerry keyboards for slanty-thumbed texters originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 May 2012 07:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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