"RIM's co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie - aka the keyboard-loving odd couple - are finally realising they're running the BlackBerry into the ground and jumping ship before it's too late. That is, Lazaridis and Balsillie are stepping down at RIM. Done. Gone. Bye bye. The new CEO of RIM will be former COO Thorsten Heins. He has quite the job ahead of him, to say the least."
"RIM lost 1.8m subscribers in the US in the three months to September despite its new BlackBerry 7 phones going on sale in the final month, according to new data from comScore's MobiLens survey of smartphone users."
BlackBerry Smartphone and tablet manufacturer, RIM has promised that the Blackberry Playbook tablet's services, software and hardware will repeatedly to be supported by the company.