Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, introduced two touch-screen handsets that it expects to begin selling in the next few months to compete with Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry 9930 phones, the thinnest BlackBerrys yet, have keyboards and 2.8-inch screens, company executives told reporters today on [...]
Google Maps Navigation helps you avoid traffic jams, Wimbledon finals will be broadcast in 3D, and Warner Bros. is renting movies within Facebook. Warner Bros. is offering an online rental service on Facebook Inc., giving the studio a new way to distribute films amid concerns by parent Time Warner Inc. (TWX) that Netflix Inc. (NFLX) [...]
Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt, once disinvited from joining Apple Inc.’s board amid differences over corporate governance, said the company has disclosed enough about Steve Jobs’s health. Apple released an e-mail from Chief Executive Officer Jobs on Jan. 17 saying that he would take a medical leave of absence. The leave [...]
The games have been a tough act for a nation that has never hosted such a large international event. Months earlier, Parliament was forced to deal with accusations of corruption in the planning of the games. Two weeks ago, gunmen fired on a tourist bus in New Delhi and injured two Taiwanese tourists. A car [...]
Blockbuster Inc., the world’s biggest movie-rental company, filed for bankruptcy after failing to adapt its storefront model to online technology pioneered by rivals such as Netflix Inc. The company listed assets of $1.02 billion against debt of $1.46 billion on a Chapter 11 petition filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. The company [...]