Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) News: Options Action, Canada Deal, Mega-Update & More

State-of-the-art, but still too late? (T-G)
I’ve seen very few negative comments on the BlackBerry Z10. Based on a few days playing with a review model supplied by AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), I, too, can say it’s a well-designed, capable device. The question is, is it too little, too late? The Canadian firm formerly known as Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) created a pager under the BlackBerry name in 1999, but it was the smartphone introduced in 2003, with its physical QWERTY keyboard, that revolutionized mobile phone use in business — and politics, too. President Barack Obama insisted on keeping his BlackBerry even after his inauguration in 2008, when it was suggested he give it up for security reasons. The BlackBerry was nicknamed the “CrackBerry” because dedicated users seemed addicted to it, sending and receiving text and e-mail messages, checking their calendars, and so on.

Canadian Tire employees to use BlackBerry smartphones as official device (CTVNews)
Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. (TSX:CTC.A) has selected BlackBerry (TSX:BB) smartphones for its employees to use as their primary business device. The retailer says employees from across its banners — including Canadian Tire, Mark’s and FGL Sports — will use the new BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Canadian Tire says it will distribute several thousand of the smartphones to its staff in the coming months, including a mix of the BlackBerry Z10 and yet-to-be released BlackBerry Q10. The deal is a win for BlackBerry, which has been rolling out its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and devices this year.

Research In Motion Ltd (BBRY) BB10.1 Heading to Developers (InsiderMonkey)
Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) aka BlackBerry has been generating some positive buzz around its BlackBerry 10 operating system, and is trying to maintain that buzz as the keyboard-based Q10 handset gets released internationally in the coming weeks on the heels of the touchscreen Z10 that hit store shelves in February. As this new QWERTY handset hits shelves, talk of an upgrade to BB10 has been introduced, and in fact now a version 10.1 is currently in the hands of developers so they have a chance to work on their applications and make them compatible with this update. But the question comes as to whether this is an update, or an upgrade? With what is being discovered so far by the developers, from a functional standpoint this may be an upgrade from the original BB10. Some of the highlighted new features for the Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) BlackBerry 10 update are mostly functional rather than cosmetic.