Research in Motion is not expected to release a new PlayBook anytime soon.
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They are writing a new playbook around content, device, and connectivity and that in turn places more and more importance on the interface and OS. But these elements are really about the broader development of a platform and ecosystem business model that Nick Vitalari and I describe in The Elastic Enterprise.
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After all the fanfare surrounding the announcement of the new BlackBerry PlayBook, one thing is clear: Canadian-based Research In Motion (RIM) is now back to playing offense .
Research in Motion has launched a new tablet called Playbook to compete with the Apple iPad.
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Brittany Henne said she helps her quarterback husband with studying the playbook and memorizing new hand signals.
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Netanyahu announced on Wednesday three top priorities straight from the playbook of a new and surprising centrist rival, Yair Lapid, as he starts to pursue the formation of a new government.
We are excited by the breadth of content that the development community will be able to deliver for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet using our new development tools and AIR.
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But excitement over the new OS has been obscured partly by a still-uncertain launch timeline for the new phone and poor sales of the PlayBook.
Such outreach is particularly important for RIM because it is using a new, proprietary operating system for the PlayBook and thus cannot assume that existing BlackBerry developers will write applications for it.
Sure, the company is working on Blackberry 7 and new devices for QNX, which powers the Playbook tablet, he says.
The new Research In Motion (RIMM) PlayBook tablet, which will launch sometime early next year, suffers from surprisingly low battery life, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu asserts in a research note this morning.
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Mr Brennan is believed to have been at the heart of trying to formalise the rules of this new war through the creation of a "playbook": a set of criteria and methods for how decisions of life and death should be made.
John Brennan is believed to have been at the heart of trying to formalise the rules of this new war through the creation of a "playbook": a set of criteria and methods for how decisions of life and death should be made.
In the hand, this new size feels somewhere between the older Xoom and a BlackBerry PlayBook, and Moto are gearing it as an ebook-style tablet, which will just about fit inside more capacious jacket and trouser pockets.
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The company also looks set to see meaningful margin compression as gross margins for the Playbook dilute corporate averages and they grow opex to support the new products.
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The gestures are all predefined, but the new settings menu, which also takes a page from Apple's playbook and places instructional videos alongside each gesture, makes it easier to understand how they work.
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Soon after the PlayBook hits the shelves, Apple may well be ready to announce a new set of iPads that will have even more impressive features than their predecessors and almost certainly will be cheaper too.
Fast forward to late last week when I attended a meeting in New York with Tim Stevens and RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis to get the latest dish on the PlayBook.
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Balsillie named carrier billing, value-added services, some undefined new type of advertising and Near Field Communications (NFC) as features that would soon be added to both the PlayBook and BlackBerry smartphones.
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