Mark Bridge writes:
Sometimes it seems that everyone and everything is out to get you. Recently, Nokia's been in that position – but this week it looks as though RIM is taking over as the mobile industry's whipping-boy.
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Research In Motion has published its quarterly results for the three months ended 28th May 2011; the first quarter of its 2012 financial year.
It says revenue was up 16% year-on-year to $4.9 billion (but down 12% on the previous quarter). RIM shipped approximately 13.2 million BlackBerry handheld devices and approximately 500,000 BlackBerry Playbook tablets in the quarter.
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Dolby Laboratories has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion, claiming that RIM is using Dolby's digital audio compression technology in some of its BlackBerry smartphones and its PlayBook tablets without having obtained licences.
The legal action has been filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California and the District Court of Mannheim in Germany.
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Mobile social gaming company Scoreloop has been acquired by Research In Motion.
Scoreloop, which offers a free software development kit that helps game developers, will continue its cross-platform approach but promises an 'unparalleled' approach to BlackBerry devices.
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RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook will launch in the UK on Thursday 16th June 2011, with pricing expected to start at £399 for the 16GB tablet.
The 7-inch PlayBook was first revealed in September and was released in the USA last month.
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