Optimism reigns at BlackBerry World
Posted May 5, 2011 11:30:46 AM.
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Despite Research In Motion’s recent profit warning, and lowered expectations by analysts for its share price, optimism has reigned supreme at the BlackBerry World Conference in Orlando.
The conference is a worldwide gathering of RIM’s leading clients and customers.
Globe and Mail tech reporter, Omar El-Akkad, speaking to 570 News from the conference, says the company’s corporate customers are firmly in RIM’s corner – buoyant and optimistic.
That optimism is fuelled in part, he says, by the unveiling at the conference of a thinner, faster version of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone and the latest BlackBerry operating system.
Also announced at the conference was a partnership between Microsoft and Research In Motion, whereby the Bing search engine becomes the BlackBerry default search engine.