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By CAROLYN KING
Research In Motion Ltd. beat earnings expectations for its second quarterâ€"and investors are responded in after-hours trading, sending shares up 16%.
The BlackBerry-maker posted its third straight quarterly loss in the period ended Sept. 1, but its revenue and operating loss came in significantly better than expectations, and it actually increased its subscriber base and cash position.
The Waterloo, Ontario-based company posted a net loss of $ 235 million, or 45 cents a share, in the fiscal second quarter. That compares with net income of $ 329 million, or 63 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier.
On an operating basis, RIM lost 27 cents a share. Analysts were projecting a loss of 46 cents a share, according to a Thomson Reuters poll.
RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said in a statement that the company is still on track
Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said in a statement that there will be "continued pressure" for the rest of the fiscal year as it works to promote its next line of phones. But he reiterated that RIM is on track to launch its new operating system, BlackBerry 10, and its new BlackBerry devices in the first calendar quarter next year.
Amid crumbling market share in the U.S, falling BlackBerry sales around the world and a tanking stock price, RIM is essentially betting the company's future on the new device.
RIM said shipments of BlackBerry's fell for third straight quarter to 7.4 million, down from 7.8 million in the first quarter and 10.6 million in the year-ago quarter. Shipments of the PlayBook tablet didn't fare as well, cutting in half to 130,000 from 260,000 in the first quarter.
Revenue tumbled to $ 2.9 billion from $ 4.2 billion a year earlier, but was up from revenue of $ 2.8 billion in the first quarter. Analysts were projecting second-quarter revenue of $ 2.5 billion.
RIM also bolstered its cash position, from $ 2.22 billion to $ 2.3 billion at quarter-end.
Earlier this week, RIM surprised many analysts by announcing during a conference that its subscriber base had risen from 78 million to 80 million. RIM reiterated this bounce in its earnings statement. Most observers had been expecting the subscriber base to stagnate or decrease.
RIM has lost its once-dominant position in the U.S. smartphone market and its shares have fallen over 90% since a 2008 peak.
After taking over early this year, Mr. Heins started a widespread restructuring process, which includes laying off 5,000 employees and closing manufacturing sites in an effort to save $ 1 billion in costs.
RIM also hired investment banks to help with a strategic review. Executives have not ruled out an outright sale of the company.
Write to Carolyn King at carolyn.m.king@dowjones.com
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Would you pay $ 650 for a Wintel tablet? That's the price Samsung will charge for its upcoming Windows 8-based Series 5 Slate powered by Intel's newly unveiled Atom Z2760 chip.
Samsung and several other Intel and Microsoft partners were on hand at an Intel-hosted event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Thursday to showcase upcoming Windows 8 tablets and hybrid laptops that use Intel's dual-core, 1.8GHz System-on-a-Chip (SoC) formerly code named Clover Trail. The Atom Z2760 (pictured) will be released on Oct. 26 alongside Microsoft's next-generation, touch-optimized operating system, with hardware manufacturers like Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and others coming out with tablets and hybrid tablet-laptops built around the x86 SoC and running Windows 8.
Before getting started, Intel Mobile and Communications Group executive Erik Reid tried to clear up a bit of a PR mess over reported comments made by CEO Paul Otellini in Asia earlier in the week.
"We could not be more excited about Windows 8 and what it brings to the market ... and that's the message Paul delivered to the employees this week," Reid said, referring to and dismissing reports that Otellini described Windows 8 as not being ready for release.
Samsung was the only Wintel partner at the SFMOMA showcase to name a price for its upcoming product. The Series 5 Slate will sell for $ 649 as a tablet and for $ 749 with its dockable keyboard attached, the South Korean tech giant said.
Other products on display included hybrid laptops with detachable tablets like the Acer Iconia W510, Asus Vivo Tab, Dell Latitude 10, and HP Envy x2, all due out in the Windows 8 release timeframe, as well as a standalone tablet Lenovo called the ThinkPad 2 that could also be ready by Oct. 26 and another standalone from ZTE called the V98 that won't be made available until January.
One notable party missing from the event was Microsoft itself, which has its own Intel-based version of its self-produced, Windows 8-based Surface tablet on tap as well. Fujitsu and LG Electronics are also readying Windows 8 tablets and hybrids running on Atom chips, according to Intel.
Other than Samsung's, Lenovo's, and ZTE's offerings, these Clover Trail laptop-tablet hybrids are all being sold as a package deal, so the $ 749 Samsung will charge for both its tablet and keyboard set-up might be the benchmark for prices we can expect for the other manufacturer's devices.
For consumers, the new Wintel hybrids from Acer, Asus, HP, and Samsung are probably the best bets for a holiday purchase. Dell's Latitude 10 and Lenovo's ThinkPad 2 are being targeted at the enterprise, according to those companies.
All of the tablets and detachable tablets showcased at SFMOMA were in the 10-inch to 11-inch range, weighed in at as little as 1.5 pounds, and were in the 9-millimeter range for thinness. Some thicker Windows 8 tablets sporting more powerful and more power hungry Intel Core chips were on display at the event but ultimately this was a day for Clover Trail.
The Atom Z2760 is a 32-nanometer chip with hyperthreading that affords four-way processing on its two CPU cores, plus a built-in graphics engine that Intel pitched as delivering better graphics and video performance than ever before. You'll get more than 10 hours of battery life on a system packing the Clover Trail SoC, according to Intel, plus better than three weeks of connected standby.
Because it's built on the x86 architecture, the Atom Z2760 is basically tailor-made for Windows, Reid said. He and a colleague demonstrated a Clover Trail slate running such core Microsoft productivity apps as Word and Excel without a hitch, as well as showing a brief snippet of a shoot-em-up video game and a deejay application.
"Intel has made a lot of progress on their tablet SoC. If you look back just a year ago, Windows-based Intel tablets were high performance, but also were thick, heavy, had a fan, and got around four hours of battery life," said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst for Moor Insights & Strategies.
"With the Atom Z2760, Intel now has tablets as thin as 9mm, light, fanless, and with all day battery life. That's a huge change and was driven as much by hardware design as it was software integration."
Intel spent a lot of time talking up voice recognition and gesture-based interfaces for future-generation ultrabooks, tablets, and hybrids at the recent Intel Developer Forum. None of that technology will be in the first wave of Wintel tablets and hybrids, it appears, but what you will be getting in systems like the HP Envy x2 and the Samsung Series 5 is a device that functions like both a standard Windows laptop PC and a pretty nifty tablet to boot.
Will that make a dent in the holiday market with popular products already out there like the Android-based Nexus 7 from Google and Asus, the new Nook Tablet from Barnes & Noble, and the rumored iPad Mini from Appleâ€"not to mention Microsoft's own Surface and tablets running the ARM-optimized Windows RT version of Windows 8?
Moorhead said it looks like Intel's play in the consumer tablet space may take a bit longer to gain steam than the traction it stands to get in the enterprise with the release of Windows 8.
"Tablets from HP and Dell will initially play very well in the enterprise space, a market which Apple is trying hard to penetrate. Intel-based tablets provide a much stronger value proposition than an iPad to enterprise IT, in that to the enterprise, they 'look' like a Windows PC. They're deployed, managed, and have the security that IT is already familiar with," the analyst said.
"As for the consumer space, while nothing keeps Intel from attacking that now, it looks like Microsoft and its ARM partners Nvidia and Qualcomm are more focused there right now."
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In an ad on Google+, Google's Motorola Mobility pointed out that Apple Maps couldn't even find a simple address in Manhattan. The only problem is that the address doesn't exist.
An ad for Motorola Mobility's Droid Razr M seems to offer a misleading attack on Apple's Maps service.
(Credit: Screen shot by CNET)Everyone knows that Apple is dealing with a firestorm of criticism over problems with its new iOS 6 Maps feature, but a new ad for Google-owned Motorola Mobility's Droid RAZR may have crossed the line.
The ad, which appeared on September 21 on Motorola's Google+ site, shows a RAZR alongside an iPhone 5, and reads, "Looking for 315 E 15th in Manhattan? Google Maps on DROID RAZR M will get you there & not #iLost in Brooklyn."
The post shows the Razr displaying the proper address in the middle of a grid of Manhattan streets, while the iPhone seems to be showing a completely befuddling address: 315 Marlborough Rd.
But as Apple Insider points out, there's no such address as 315 E. 15th Street in Manhattan. Instead, there's a park -- Stuyvesant Square -- there.
The only correct interpretation of a request to map 315 E. 15th St. in New York., produced by Apple Maps, but not Google Maps.
(Credit: Screen shot by CNET)And it turns out that the only potentially legitimate 315 E. 15th St. in New York City might very well be on Marlborough Road since, as John Hill from Brooklyn's Borough Hall told CNET, several blocks of East 15th Street -- including the 300 block -- were renamed Marlborough Road in 1905.
As a result, Apple Insider's contention is that Motorola may have been deliberately misleading in suggesting that Apple Maps couldn't locate an address in the middle of New York City.
After all, if you type "318 E. 15th St., NY" into Apple Maps, you get taken to an address on Manhattan's East 15th St..
Apple Maps properly shows 318 E. 15th St., NY.
(Credit: Screen shot by CNET)Google did not respond to a request for comment.
What's ironic, then, is that in suggesting that Apple Maps is unable to find a simple address in Manhattan, Motorola might well have actually be highlighting two contradictory points. First, that Apple's Maps actually does the right thing when you ask it to find 315 E. 15th St. in New York, and second, that Google's own maps service takes you to an invalid address when you enter those coordinates.
Whether or not Motorola's anti-Apple Maps attack contains deliberate misdirection, as it were, people seem to have noticed problems with the ad. As the top comment on Motorola's Google+ post put it today, "So Google is now in the BS business? I guess if your product doesn't speak loudly enough for itself, you could always lie about your competitor's product."
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