John Magrosky's List: Blackberry Struggle.

• Connors, Will (AUTHOR)
  Ante, Spencer E. (AUTHOR)
  Gryta, Thomas
• Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 1/31/2013, Vol. 261 Issue 25, pB1-B4. 2p.
• The article discusses the delayed 2013 release of the BlackBerry smartphone by telecommunications company Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM). Due to production delays and the need for testing from wireless carriers, the article reports that the updated version of the BlackBerry will not be available in U.S. markets until March. The authors cover the marketing campaign for the smartphone, how the delay has decreased RIM's stock prices, and comments from RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins.

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• McCracken, Harry
• Time; 2/11/2013, Vol. 181 Issue 5, p16-16, 1p
• RIM is changing its corporate name to BlackBerry (and hiring Alicia Keys to be its global creative director) as part of its last, best shot at reinvention. But it's the models themselves that reveal the troubled company's turnaround vision -- as well as several essential truths about smart phones in general.
• * Consumers crave modernity. While iPhone and Android phones have evolved considerably, BlackBerrys have been hobbled by creaky software, grainy screens and other relics of an earlier era, when it was the gadget of choice for corporate use. But the ZIO and Qio sport beefier hardware and scrap the old operating system for BlackBerry 10, an all-new platform that is polished and powerful and designed to lure new customers.

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• Hamblen, Matt
  Ferranti, Marc
  Williams, Marty
• Computerworld, 2/11/2013, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p6-6, 1p
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• y now has about 80 million users, amounting to less than 5% of the worldwide smartphone market, and it faces an uphill battle when it comes to marketing and selling the Zio and Q10, even though many analysts say the new devices are a good step forward from previous generations of Black Berries.
• "At best, RIM's new products will allow it to stop the bleeding and hold its market share," said Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research. "Our consumer data shows that while more than half of U.S. BlackBerry owners plan to get a new phone in the next year, fewer than two in five say it will be another BlackBerry."

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