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All of new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins’ fresh ideas will apparently still be revealed to the company’s board in a couple of weeks, but he’s already dropped some gems in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and Reuters . First item on the agenda?
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Shocker! New RIM CEO targets existing BlackBerry users for upgrades
For a brief moment, I had hopes that RIM had made a move that would unseat it from the funk it’s been sitting in for years. And then I watched the introductory video of newly-appointed CEO Thorsten Heins. Anyone who assumes that a simple CEO swap is the answer to all of RIM’s issues is woefully misinformed, or worse, just blinded by false hope
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Editorial: RIM’s new CEO isn’t the shakeup it needed
After months upon months of investor backlash , RIM’s making some significant changes . And by “significant,” we mean the co-chief executives (and founders) are out. As of tomorrow, both Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis will be stepping away from the top posts, enabling “a little-known company insider” to take over, according to The Wall Street Journal .
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Mini will show off the Clubvan concept at the 2012 Geneva auto show in early March. (Credit: Mini) There was a time when Mini’s designers did crazy things to its standard models, then presented them as concepts at auto shows. Witness the Rocketman concept , which started out as a standard Cooper model, then added weirdly hinged doors and a big glass bubble at the rear.
If you’re looking for more content to watch on Netflix’s Watch Instantly streaming service — especially since all those Starz movies are exiting stage left at month’s end — we have good news, as it just announced a multi-year exclusive deal with The Weinstein Company . The agreement covers foreign language, documentary and “certain other movies” that will be watchable in their pay-TV window only on Netflix, and not HBO or Showtime. That includes such high profile selections as The Artist , which is nominated for 17 Academy Awards this weekend and Best Documentary nominated Undefeated , as well as other flicks like Coriolanus and The Intouchables .
We’ve lived vicariously through Google Maps a few times in the past, including an excursion down the Amazon River . Today, those plans for a trip to Russia can get a lot more detailed as Street View is now virtually pacing the streets of Moscow and St
(Credit: Video screenshot by Bonnie Cha/CNET) Fans (present company included) flipped out when Mattel announced that it would release a 1:1 replica of the hoverboard from “Back to the Future II” and “Back to the Future III.” However, the replica doesn’t actually float, and it’s not even clear how it glides over surfaces, which is perhaps why one enterprising individual took matters into his own hands. Inspired by an art exhibition by Nils Guadagnin , YouTube user dondula7 created a floating hoverboard using an electromagnetic kit
