A Canadian sketch show called This Hour Has 22 Minutes did a hilarious send up of the financial error RIM made back in March of last year. Some erroneous stock options were granted causing RIM to restate results all the way from 2004 onwards to correct everything. This was the whole debacle that caused Jim Balsillie to step down as chairman, though he remained co-CEO. The video gives a unique insight at what it’s really like at RIM, and likely in boardrooms around the world. It’s an older episode, but you can check it out, or view a list of other favorites from the staff at CBS.
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The comic strip Pearls Before Swine took a few potshots at BlackBerry users this weekend. If they weren’t so accurate, I might have taken offense.
Heh, some poor shmuck in Calgary thought that that his “unlimited mobile web browsing” plan with Bell included tethered connections to his PC. So, after some regular usage, including downloading high-def movies over his KRZR’s connection, Piotr Staniaszek got a beefy bill in the mail amounting to almost $85,000. Luckily, Bell wasn’t completely heartless, and were willing to knock down the charge to $5,000, but that’s still a pretty expensive lesson to learn.
$10.5 million is small potatoes for the service of a BlackBerry 8830, plus the limited-time private island offer is a nice extra. Well, says Sprint. YouTube’s down right now, but for whenever it gets back up…
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie will be making an announcement today to buy the Nashville Predators for a cool $220 million from previous owner Craig Leipold. For anyone who’s confused, you have to keep in mind that Jim is A) an athlete, B) a Canadian, and C) a billionnaire. If you put these three things together, of course the guy’s going to want to buy a hockey team. We’re really hoping he brings the team up to Kitchener-Waterloo (or at least Balsillie’s native Hamilton), which seems a likely move considering his deal to buy the Pittsburg Penguins fell through because he couldn’t move the team.
Did you know that NBC cut off the last game in the Eastern Conference because the overtime cut into horse racing? I guess that’s hockey’s competition in the U.S. Whatever, we’ll buy up your teams if you won’t give them air time.
Not really news so much as a little Friday fun coming our way via YouTube. In a recent newscast covering the Republican primaries, the Fox team attempts to explain the high vote turnout for Rep. Ron Paul as due to the voting medium: text messaging. Pretty regular stuff, except for when the conversation turns in the last 45 seconds to a discussion of text messaging itself, where the entire crew displays their ignorance of the medium — even the guy with the BlackBerry.
While cellular text messaging is mostly the purview of the young, it’s interesting to see people within the age bracket of the average BlackBerry user (and BlackBerry Cool reader, for that matter) struggling with something we do every day.
I guess it’s kind of a bad thing when you’ve got a T-Mobile phone on a Rogers box, eh? Well, it’s no misprint, Rogers’ Pearl has been using a T-Mobile shot right there on the front.
Full shots behind the jump. Shout out to mobile_pheen for the tip.
Now this is the perfect Monday morning story, Morgan Pozgar was just crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds. I just tried on my 8700 and couldn’t even get close to her time, and I’m not even going to try on the Pearl because I doubt that word is in the dictionary.
Morgan defeated nearly 200 other competitors at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan to become East Coast champion and then beat West Coast champion Eli Tirosh, 21, of Los Angeles. I feel sorry for Eli because I can’t imagine losing to a 13-year old cute blonde girl.
“I’m going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes,” the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG. She estimated that she sends more than 8,000 text messages a month to her friends and family.
I found this interesting piece in an AP article talking about watches losing ground to electronic devices. No surprise here, my cell phone/blackberry has replaced my watch for a long time. I still sometimes wear a watch but that’s more due to wanting to look fashionable.
The part I did find interesting is depending on your Blackberry beeps to control your life.
“I don’t check my watch anymore. My watch checks me,†says Sean MacPhedran, a 27-year-old from Ottawa, Ontario, who works in advertising. He’s referring to the beeps and vibrations his BlackBerry makes to remind him of his obligations.
“On the one hand, I’ve become a slave to its beeps,†he says. “But on the other hand, it automates a lot of things that I would have to do manually otherwise, like try to remember when I’m supposed to go learn how to cha-cha or call a client.â€
Wow and I thought it was just me! I jokingly tell my girlfriend the best way to spend time together is to send me a meeting request through Outlook so I can see if I can fit her in.
Anyone else with this issue?
Here’s a little fun Friday goodness for you. We were tipped off to an article today about Matthias Wandel, an engineer at RIM who came up with an inventive low-tech solution to a high-tech problem back in the day.
It seems as though Matthias was testing the 900MHz reception of the old RIM 950 (we’re talking pre-BlackBerry here, folks), which varies by angle and orientation. The Solution? Build a LEGO machine to do the work for you.
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