Simon’s Blog

Techcrunch is reporting that a $150M venture fund aimed at Blackberry developers, will be launched on Monday (update: it’s now launched).   It’s a clear response to the $100M iPhone fund that was recently launched by Apple and Kleiner-Perkins.    Taken together, that means that there’s a quarter of a billion dollars of venture capital available for […]

If the rumour mill is to believed, RIM is shortly to announce a new addition to its Blackberry 8700 range - the 8707v. Exclusive to Vodafone for a while, this will be an 8700 device with 3G connectivity. If they can get this on the market soon, it will be a massive success. […]