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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 2:13 pm on Oct. 13, 2011
Good question. Don't think you can f*** an iPod, but I do believe that you can get f***ed by a BBerry
Wow thats a relief as I thought this was a sex forum but every thread seems to be about football or I pods or bb
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:00 am on Oct. 13, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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^ Desperation.
I'd almost feel sorry for RIM, except I've predicted all this years ago.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:18 pm on Oct. 13, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Keeps looking worse for RIM:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/blackberry-india-idUSL5E7LE00T20111014
RPT-BlackBerry outages irk India, threaten key RIM market
* India one of few growth markets for troubled RIM
* Rivals matching BlackBerry features in cheaper products
* Consumer market seen most vulnerable for RIM
By Devidutta Tripathy and Henry Foy
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A four-day service outage has cast a shadow over BlackBerry's reputation in India, one of the smartphone maker's few growing markets, where the frustration of hundreds of thousands of users could mean a chance for its rivals to gain ground.
The repeated shutdowns of email and messaging services that left BlackBerry users with only voice calls and SMS text infuriated Indian customers, including a tennis star and a Bollywood icon, leaving BlackBerry maker Research In Motion scrambling to control the damage.
"In the capital market, every second matters. Time lost is money lost. Had it been for couple of hours, that was okay. But it stretched much beyond that," said Jagannadham Thunuguntla, strategist and head of research at SMC Global Securities in New Delhi.
RIM has fixed the root cause of the global disruption of BlackBerry services and is still working to clear a backlog of delayed messages, its co-CEOs said on Thursday, hoping to control the damage.
More than a million people use BlackBerry in India, the world's second-biggest mobile phone market. RIM has established a strong, but not dominant, foothold in the price-sensitive market thanks largely to its cheap models.
A large corporate user base that relies on its enterprise email system, the huge popularity of RIM's BlackBerry Messenger platform among young people and competitive pricing mean it outsells Apple Inc.'s iPhone by around five to one.
In the June quarter, BlackBerry accounted for 15 percent of smartphone sales in the country, researcher IDC said, trailing Nokia's share of nearly 46 percent and Samsung's 21 percent, but far ahead of Apple's 2.6 percent.
The lowest-priced BlackBerry 8520, RIM's best-selling model in India, is available at about 9,000 rupees ($184). The entry-level iPhone 3GS model is around 20,000 rupees.
But low-cost competitors, especially those based on Google's Android system, are poised to grab market share.
"Apple is still a premium user play, but if you look at others, especially the Android ones, you can have the same features that BlackBerry is offering pretty much at half the cost," said Abhishek Chauhan, Senior Consultant, ICT Practice, at Frost & Sullivan.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 9:34 pm on Oct. 13, 2011
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one would have thought that Blackberry must be female - only a woman can ignore you for three days flat then pretend nothing was wrong
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:06 pm on Oct. 14, 2011
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Quote: from S M E G M A on 2:19 pm on Oct. 12, 2011
What does a BB that another smartphone cannot do, besides being able to show an updated picture and message for all contacts to see in the user's profile? That is more of a 'gossip thing' than anything else.
Some idiot "expert" obviously has problems understanding plain simple questions. Maybe I should I repeat myself.
"What does a BB that another smartphone cannot do, besides being able to show an updated picture and message for all contacts to see in the user's profile?"
Allow me to explain. What makes BB such an attractive phone for so many? All the things that BB phones do can be done by any other smartphone (for those with reading comprehension problems like Darry that includes Internet services and email capabilities). The only thing that I notice that a BB does in addition to all the things that other smartphones don't, is to show and and updated picture and status in the user's profile in the BBMessenger (for all the contacts to see)... and this to me is a gossip thing.
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Posted on: 3:35 pm on Oct. 14, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Looking worse and worse for RIM -- and better and better for iPhone.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/14/three.studies.show.iphone.4s.gets.more.new.users/
Launch day polls: iPhone 4S luring more BlackBerry converts
Three studies show iPhone 4S gets more new users
Three separate iPhone 4S launch day studies have shown noticeably more buyers being switchers from the BlackBerry and other platforms. The most detailed, a 195-person study by UBS analyst Maynard Um in New York City, had 75 percent coming from an existing iPhone versus 80 percent a year ago. Of the remaining group, about 10 percent were jumping from a BlackBerry, while five percent each were coming from LG and Samsung phones; four percent were coming from Motorola.
Um didn't say how many of the phones below RIM were using Android or were basic feature phones.
His findings were mostly echoed in others' studies. An examination from Reuters used a small 127-person pool but covered people in most of the launch countries and found a surprising number of defectors. About 28 of the group were quitting from another platform, usually BlackBerry but also Nokia's Symbian.
A considerably larger study of 550 people at numerous Apple stores from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster showed that 73 percent of iPhone 4S buyers were coming to it from an earlier model, down from 77 percent in 2010. He didn't break down which platforms the rest were coming from.
Both UBS and Piper Jaffray broke down the buying habits by storage capacity. In each case, the largest slices of users were opting for the 16GB version, at 42 percent in UBS' study and 49 percent in Piper's. Next up was the 32GB model (39 and 32 percent), while both saw 19 percent picking the 64GB version. Um noted that 64 percent had gone for the 32GB version last year and thus that the 64GB model mostly siphoned off that audience always willing to get the highest-end iPhone regardless of its price.
About 55 percent of iPhone 4S buyers considered Siri the most important reason to upgrade.
BlackBerry users have been more likely to leave for another platform, but the iPhone 4S launch may have been a tipping point. RIM's four-day outage is known to have pushed some to consider switching and made the iPhone 4S as a convenient leaping-off point. A fashion publicist told Reuters that RIM's periodic outages had helped push him to switch.
"I am going into fashion and [the iPhone is] like the official phone of the industry," he said. "Also, I am tired of the Blackberry issues, like stuff going down every six months."
More data provided by UBS showed that two thirds of launch day buyers had a Mac, and half an iPad. In the US, three quarters were still opting for AT&T, while 13.8 percent wanted Verizon and 7.7 percent were on Sprint.
By Electronista Staff
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:18 am on Oct. 15, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from S M E G M A on 3:35 am on Oct. 15, 2011
Allow me to explain. What makes BB such an attractive phone for so many?
There's nothing attractive about it, even for those using it -- invariably, those I ask, give the same reasons:
- "It's the phone that my company gave me."
- "It's what I've used for a long time."
- "I like to use BBM because my friends all do."
and, my favorite:
- "I like buttons on the keyboard."
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 12:28 am on Oct. 15, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Worse and worse for RIM.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-blackberry-idUSTRE79B24Y20111014
Analysis: BlackBerry outage could accelerate shift to iPhone
By Jim Finkle and Ashley Lau
(Reuters) - John Stuart has been chained to his BlackBerry for years, first as a systems manager for Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley and then as chief information officer for Beverly Hills Wealth Management.
But this week, Stuart ordered an iPhone from Apple Inc, ending his 7-year relationship with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.
His move highlights how even security-conscious banks and IT managers, who have been among RIM's most loyal customers, are starting to defect, lured by improvements in rivals that challenge the BlackBerry's much-vaunted safety features.
"RIM has always been at the top of their game when it comes to device management. Apple has caught up," Stuart said.
The BlackBerry has been losing ground in the business market to the iPhone and, to a lesser extent, devices running Google Inc's Android software, as companies gradually allowed their employees to choose their own mobile devices.
This week's massive BlackBerry network outage, which spanned four continents, is likely to speed up RIM's decline, analysts said.
Many banks already allow employees to choose their devices and the BlackBerry outage is likely to push more in that direction, according to Julie McNelly, an analyst with Aite Group, who advises financial institutions on data security.
"The barn door is already open. Most of the horses are already gone," she said. "This could potentially accelerate the process."
The BlackBerry used to own the corporate market because companies believed RIM was best at protecting enterprise data and prevent the theft of corporate secrets.
The outage highlights RIM's Achilles heel: the fact that all BlackBerry messages are routed through its own data centers means information is more secure, but it also creates a single point of potential failure.
Messages sent through phones from Apple and other vendors do not travel through any central network, so they do not have that same weakness.
While that has meant rival phones were less secure in the past, many security experts say the iPhone has caught up to the BlackBerry, thanks to improvements in Apple's latest iOS software. And for Android phones, a proliferation of third party security software have also helped.
"In most ways, iOS is at least as secure as BlackBerry, namely in malware prevention, exploit prevention, etc.," said Charlie Miller, principal research consultant with Accuvant and a highly regarded expert on mobile security.
He said the BlackBerry is still superior in data encryption and manageability, but added that "reliability obviously is a problem recently for Blackberry."
CONSUMERIZATION
Apple is a big winner when workers get to pick their own phones, a trend known as the consumerization of IT. The iPhone 4S hit store shelves on Friday and thousands of people lined up around the world to get it.
Companies can save money when they let employees buy their own phones and pay their own monthly bills. All IT managers have to do is install software that makes it possible for employees to securely access corporate networks.
At Credit Suisse, which only started this year to open its network to Apple and Android devices, about one-third of its 25,000 BlackBerry users have already switched phones.
That has saved the European bank millions of dollars, according to Stephen Hilton, Credit Suisse's global head of technology infrastructure services.
"We are seeing very rapid adoption of this 'consumer technology' platform," Hilton said. "I suspect this (outage) would be another reason why people may reconsider.
An Aite Group poll of 402 wealth managers conducted before the outage found that 45 percent would choose an iPhone or iPad, compared to 14 percent for a BlackBerry.
A survey released this week by Enterprise Mobile Device Management, sponsored by Intel Corp's McAfee Inc, found that 44 percent of iPhone users were "completely satisfied" with their device, compared with 34 percent for Android smartphones and 16 percent for BlackBerries.
"It's a tough situation to be in," Forrester Research analyst Christian Kane said of RIM. "Nobody is going to necessarily stop supporting a device over an outage. But it doesn't do any favors for RIM," said Kane, who helps big companies decide how quickly they should open up their mobile networks.
It's a mark of the inroads that rivals have made into the corporate market when this week's BlackBerry outage was shrugged off by many on Wall Street.
One finding of an informal Reuters survey of more than 25 financial firms was that a lot of people simply were not bothered by the service interruption, compared to the panic that ensued when the BlackBerry went down in April 2007 and again in February 2008.
Wells Fargo said some people saw intermittent disruption to some services; at least two regional banks and one investment bank also said problems were irregular at best and limited to only some employees.
One Wall Street banker said he would not have even noticed had his firm's IT department not said something.
"We allow and support a broad range of mobile devices, and expect we will continue to do so. These devices have been stable for a long time, and while we are not happy about the recent outage, we have no immediate plans to discontinue use of the product," a spokeswoman for JPMorgan Chase & Co said in an e-mail.
It is hard to estimate BlackBerry's corporate market share as RIM does not give out much information. But its share of the global smartphone market fell to 11.7 percent in the second quarter from 13.0 percent in the first quarter, according to estimates from Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney.
In contrast, Android's share rose to 43.4 percent from 36.4 percent, and Apple's rose to 18.2 percent from 16.9 percent.
(Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston and Ashley Lau in New York; Additional reporting by Ben Berkowitz and Paritosh Bansal; Editing by Tiffany Wu and Richard Chang)
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:04 pm on Oct. 15, 2011
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