BlackBerry resumes bid to buy Indian-owned company

January 20th, 2009 TORONTO - Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has withdrawn its offer to make a hostile bid for acquiring an encryption technology company owned by an Indo-Canadian after its action was stalled by a Canadian court. Waterloo-based RIM had made an offer of $66 million to the shareholders of Certicom Corp, based at Mississauga on the outskirts of Toronto, after its talks with the management failed.

February 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian government's security concern over Blackberry phones, manufactured by the Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), has been 'resolved as far as possible', visiting Canadian Minister of Industry Tony Clement has said. Clement, the fourth Canadian minister to be in India in a month, started his five-day visit from Saturday, and met Communications Minister A.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will launch BlackBerry services by April, a top official said here Wednesday. 'We have got the required approvals from the government and will launch BlackBerry services by next month,' BSNL chairman and managing director Kuldeep Goyal told reporters on the sidelines of a conference.

March 20th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - State-run telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) Friday launched BlackBerry services in the country. 'BlackBerry services bring together smart phones and software services to provide customers with easy wireless access to email, phone, web and multimedia applications,' BSNL chairman-cum-managing director Kuldeep Goyal told reporters here after the launch.

January 21st, 2009 TORONTO - Research In Motion (RIM) is facing more trouble after a court here Monday ordered the BlackBerry maker to drop its bid for takeover of an Indian-owned company. The company's bosses face individual penalties to the tune of $100 million from the provincial Ontario Securities Commission for their role in a stock option backdating controversy.

January 20th, 2009 TORONTO - Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has withdrawn its offer to make a hostile bid for acquiring an encryption technology company. The firm withdrew its offer Tuesday after it was stopped Monday by a Canadian court from making the hostile bid.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Photographic equipment manufacturer Nikon Wednesday launched eight new models of its flagship Coolpix brand of digital cameras, priced in the range of Rs.7,450-Rs.25,950. The company, which commands five percent share in the Indian compact camera market, is targeting to double it by year-end.

January 19th, 2009 TORONTO - A Canadian court has stopped BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) from making a hostile bid for takeover of its security technology supplier Certicom Corp. Headed by Indian-origin Karna Gupta, Certicom is an encryption company based at Mississauga on the outskirts of Toronto.

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - The world's most expensive Blackberry is pimped out with 4,459 diamonds and 18 carat yellow gold. Designer Alexander Amosu's device, which is made of gold and dazzles with shiny rocks, is understood to have taken 350 hours to make, reports The Sun.

September 30th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Indian subsidiary of South Korean consumer durable major Samsung is betting big on touch-screen mobile phones, targeting a 20 percent value share in the domestic handset market this year. "We expect our touch-screen models to contribute around 20 percent of our total sales this year.

May 28th, 2009 MADURAI - The little-known maker of Red Chery - a mobile application used for receiving mails from free and corporate e-mail accounts - is dreaming big: eating into a market straddled by BlackBerry of Canada's Research In Motion and other similar service providers. To make this happen, the Rs.15-crore software product company, AJ Square Consultancy, is banking on an aggressive pricing strategy, and hoping to rope in two million (20 lakh) subscribers by this fiscal-end.

July 8th, 2009 TOKYO - Toshiba Corporation announced that Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture with JSW that will manufacture and market steam turbines and generators in India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government of Tamil Nadu.

April 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - London-based Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) would launch six to seven Indian games this year, a top official said here Monday. 'We will launch games based on Indian contexts, like traditional Indian outdoor and indoor games and another game based on the underworld activities in Mumbai,' Atindriya Bose, country-manager - Playstation, part of Sony Computer Entertainment, told IANS.

September 30th, 2009 TiVo unveils BlackBerry app for show recordingTV viewers can now TiVo using their BlackBerry. TiVo Inc., the maker of digital video recorders that can pause and rewind live programming, unveiled a free application Wednesday for the BlackBerry that lets subscribers set up recording of TV shows from the phones.

April 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Contrary to previous rumors, President Barack Obama hasn't gotten his super-secure BlackBerry. According to The Washington Times, the American leader will have to long for his souped-up smartphone for a little while, and has instead been forced to use an ungainly hybrid.