Monday, September 24, 2012

RIM pushes BlackBerry 10 into the spotlight at BlackBerry Jam


BlackBerry 10 was first announced this past May at BlackBerry World in Orlando, Fl.


(Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET)

Research in Motion and its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system will get another chance to prove their worth at the company's annual developer conference, kicking off tomorrow in San Jose.


In a move that will surely disappoint analysts, shareholders, and the RIM faithful, we don't expect the company to show off any new devices at BlackBerry Jam Americas (known last year as BlackBerry Developer Conference,) but they will want to provide more details about the OS, hoping loyal and new developers recommit to BlackBerry over iOS and Android. In addition to selling developers on the brand new ecosystem, RIM will remind them that there's money to be made.


If RIM's lucky, its constituents will have short memories of an ill-timed outage that blacked out service in Europe and Africa on Friday, prompting an apology from CEO Thorsten Heins.


The pressure is on


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