Posted on January 23, 2007, at 1:42 PM .
First, let me quickly thank the Daily Report for grabbing this from the (subscription-based) Wall Street Journal. Now then. According to the… Daily Report, there’s a new breed of BlackBerry addicts, and they’re surfacing around noon hour in the same clothes as yesterday. Yes, we’re talking about the university and college contingent. And you know what? Even stay-at-home parents are picking them up. Maybe RIM doesn’t have to try that hard to get out into the consumer market.
Many consumers say the extra cost is worth it. Tina Gill, 35, a stay-at-home mom in Austin, Texas, uses her BlackBerry 7100g to keep up with the fluctuating schedules of her two children. She often receives email updates from her children’s golf and baseball coaches on where practice is being held that day.
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Posted on January 18, 2007, at 6:50 AM .
Another CrackBerry article to add to the stockpile, but this one should make you pay attention a little more to how much you’re using your device. A study performed by Toronto’s Ryerson University has brought in results stating that a BlackBerry device could “turn users into distracted, anti-social obsessives who could put the safety of others or themselves at risk.” Oh my.
“The Ryerson study only looked at the usage patterns of 13 respondents, which spanned CEOs to middle managers and entry-level workers, but (associate professor Catherine) Middleton said she was more interested in specific examples than broad statistics. “We felt that the story we were able to tell was a story that was pretty believable in terms of identifying behaviours,†she said. “The intent is not to generalize that every BlackBerry user has the same patterns.â€
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Posted on January 12, 2007, at 10:12 AM .
Would you post a picture of expired food on a product shot that you were trying to sell to the masses? I’ll stop beating around the Bush and start talking about him and his BlackBerry instead. Reports came out earlier this week that former Florida governor Jeb Bush demanded his BlackBerry be included in his gubernatorial portrait – what appears to be a BlackBerry 7250. Why not the Pearl, Jeb? Get with the times!
Now, the Globe and Mail reports that RIM’s Co-CEO has been alerted of the BlackBerry boasting, and what did he have to say?
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Posted on December 19, 2006, at 10:02 AM .
I post these types of stories for myself as much as I do for you. They’re slight warnings that hey, this could happen to anybody. We’ve seen the CrackBerry stories where the media lambastes BlackBerry users, but rarely do we get the other side’s account. Well, in his blog, Paul Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, confides that yes, he was addicted but he’s quit cold turkey.
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