The consortium that acquired Nortel’s portfolio of around 4,000 tech patents is now putting those patents into battle.
Those patents were bought in March 2012 for $4.5 billion by the Rockstar Consortium, which included Apple, Microsoft, RIM (BlackBerry), Ericsson and Sony.
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Launching the BlackBerry BBM messaging and social networking application for Android and Apple iOS devices has resulted in more than 20 million new users joining the service, pushing the total number of monthly active BBM users to over 80 million people.
In fact, the Android and iPhone apps had more than 10 million downloads in the first 24 hours of their official release.
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A month later than expected, BlackBerry has started rolling out its BBM applications for Android and iPhone.
The apps will allow users with non-BlackBerry devices to send and receive instant messages using the popular BBM messaging service.
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Changes revealed, charges concealed
Mark Bridge writes:
Things didn’t look so bad in the mobile industry last week. After the shock of BlackBerry’s job losses and restructuring, it seemed as though the saga could be reaching a conclusion. On Monday shareholder Fairfax Financial announced a bid to buy the company. BlackBerry’s board of directors has approved the terms of the agreement, although it’s still able to consider alternative proposals as well.
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Following the release of preliminary quarterly figures last week, BlackBerry has published formal results for the three months until 31st August 2013.
Revenue was approximately $1.6 billion (£992 million), down 45% year-on-year.
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