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A new gadget turns your iPhone into a BlackBerry (sort of)
Seattle-based tech company SoloMatrix has created a physical, fold-away keyboard for the iPhone and is more than halfway to its...
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QUOTED: Thorsten Heins thinks RIM is just fine, thank you very much
— Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins, on his company’s current predicament. Heins waved off all the talk of death...
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VIDEO: Steve Jobs as a drug-dealing murderer (in this news cartoon about RIM)
This animated slap in Research In Motion’ s face comes courtesy of Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio also responsible...
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QUOTED: a Toronto tech watcher, on the RIM catastrophe that would flummox even Steve Jobs
—Kerry Morrison, of Toronto software developer Endloop Mobile, on the general pessimism about Research in Motion’ s...
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Those Research in Motion sale rumours aren’t going away
Research In Motion has been hit with yet another round of rumours about a sale. The Sunday Times of London alleges —without...
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RIM unveils its slickest smartphone ever—the Porsche BlackBerry (price tag: nearly $2,000)
That’s right: in the midst of the worst period in Research in Motion’ s history—with executives ousted, share prices...
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QUOTED: A brand strategist explains why the Black Eyed Peas couldn’t fix RIM
— Matthew Kelly , a brand strategy consultant who worked with Research in Motion from late 2009 to early 2011, on some early...
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RIM shares now cost less than a six-pack of beer
Research in Motion’s stock price has continued on its downward trend, briefly dropping as low as $9.97 during trading...
City News
Roundup: the latest sad tales about Research in Motion (and more sale rumours)
Research in Motion hasn’t been the topic of happy headlines in a while , but the past few days have been especially bad for the...
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RIM’s head of global sales quits (and it could be Jim Balsillie’s fault)
Thanks to its precipitous downward spiral and uncomfortable office politics, Research in Motion is rumoured to have some pretty...
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QUOTED: a marketing professor compares RIM to Hogwarts and its new executives to Muggles
— Markus Giesler, a Schulich School of Business marketing professor, trying to describe why making Frank Boulben chief marketing...
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RIM finally gets a new marketing chief—which can only be a good thing, right?
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RIM headache number 4,572 (or thereabouts): Nokia is suing for patent infringement
Despite the fact that Nokia and Research in Motion have each seen their smartphone profits eviscerated by Apple and...
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RIM was behind that lame anti-Apple flash mob
Oh, Research in Motion —we want so badly to love you, but you can be so embarrassing. RIM has taken credit for a flash mob...
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Reaction Roundup: Is BlackBerry 10 all that it was supposed to be?
At the annual BlackBerry World trade show in Orlando yesterday, Research in Motion top dog Thorsten Heins unveiled prototypes of...
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Professors hate Jim Balsillie’s think tank enough to boycott two Ontario universities
Canadian professors triumphed over former Research in Motion exec Jim Balsillie earlier in the month when they got York University...
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QUOTED: Billionaire Prem Watsa on why the media—and everyone else—shouldn’t write off RIM
—Billionaire investor and Research in Motion shareholder Prem Watsa, chastising a group of BlackBerry-toting journalists for the...
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RIM debuts a pretty lame handset—on purpose
In an attempt to stay alive until it’s finally ready to release the BlackBerry 10 platform, Research in Motion launched a...
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RIM writes a list of terrible things that could happen (or already have happened)
Research in Motion’s annual information form isn’t as dry as it sounds—if you ask the Globe and Mail , it reads “like a...
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Jim Balsillie bashes York University (and shows he’s a sore loser) in the Globe and Mail
Woe betide anyone who refuses Jim Balsillie’ s largesse—the former Research in Motion exec penned an op-ed in today’s Globe...
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RIM caves, meaning criminals in India should avoid plotting via BlackBerry Messenger
Research in Motion’ s years-long spat with the Indian government is finally winding down—and all the company had to do was...
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Man stabbed at RIM party after drunken guests charge the coat check
Things just never seem to work out for Research in Motion. Last night, the company was hosting a swanky party in a London...
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RIM embraces its square-ness and provides software for other, cooler smartphones
After trying too hard to seem cool (the Bold Team superheroes appealed to absolutely no one, and an attempt to get in on the...
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York University refuses to take $30 million from Jim Balsillie
After eight months of foot stamping and posturing, York University has backed out of a deal to use a big chunk of Jim Balsillie’...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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