Sluggish BlackBerry, RIM stock tumbles at Lowest Point

Performance Research In Motion (RIM) on the trading floor was unsteady. Even in Wednesday trading, shares of BlackBerry manufacturer was down 2.5% so that now the price were at $ 15 per share.

RIM condition is of course somewhat apprehensive. The reason, according to MarketWatch, the value of their shares are now at their lowest since mid-2004.

Quoted from ZDNet, Thursday (12/15/2011), the analysts assess that the negative performance of stock Canadian vendor was not separated from the sluggish sales of the BlackBerry as a whole.

Indeed, in some countries - like Indonesia - BlackBerry still be one of the popular gadgets. But when it comes to global, slowly handset which is famous for its fuel features is said to be overshadowed from the iPhone and Android devices.

The condition is exacerbated by the drop in sales of the BlackBerry Playbook far from expectations due to not compete with iPad cs. As a result, RIM also have to bear the losses reported USD 485 million or around Rp 4.3 trillion from its tablet PC's.

The reason is, Playbook produced far more than the number of units sold. So the prime stock of RIM's tablet is still piling up.

RIM itself has not officially respond to it in this regard. But Alex Saunders, Vice President of Developer Relations & Ecosystem Development RIM has previously argued that the sluggish newspaper BlackBerry enthusiasts is just a myth. Because based on data owned by RIM, the number of BlackBerry users continues to increase each year.

"BlackBerry users down? It's just a myth. There are 70 million BlackBerry users that are currently active, 20 million more than the previous year," Saunders claims, on the sidelines of the event BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 held in Singapore, some time ago.

source : marketwatch


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'Twins' Twitter of China Great Success

Weibo is a local networking site in China that is similar to Twitter. Weibo recently emerged apparently very popular in the Bamboo Curtain country and used by foreign companies in there for promotion.

from the Telegraph, Thursday (24/11/2011), Weibo introduced in August 2009. Currently the number of members about 300 million. The foreign companies began to use Weibo to promote their products.

Researchers from the China Market Research Group interviewed the consumers of media in China. The result is more and more people in the age group 18-32 years using Weibo to get various information.

As a result a variety of snapper foreign companies operating in China was put on Weibo to reach consumers. Such as Coca Cola, Unilever, and Louis Vuitton.

"Weibo China has changed how people get and share information. We are now communicating with more than 2.4 million fans in Weibo every day," said Joanna Price, a spokesman for Coca Cola.

Weibo success may not be separated from diblokirnya Twitter in China. But perhaps also because, Weibo is a good product.

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US-Japan Challenged Super Computers Made in China

China makes its first super computer that uses a microprocessor chip made ​​by the country itself. Bamboo Curtain country that wants to beat the super computer made ​​in the United States (U.S.) and Japan.

Sunway Bluelight MPP, thus the name of the super computer, ranging assembled since last September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong province.
Sunway system, which can do 1,000 trillion calculations per second, mentioned will be included in the list of 20 computers with fastest performance in the world.

Sunway body immersed in a 8700 microprocessor Shenwei SW1600. Microprocessor is designed in the Chinese Computer Institute and produced in Shanghai.

Some time ago, another China-made supercomputer, Tianhe-1A draw international attention when crowned as the fastest in the world. Previously, this position was occupied by his rival, Japan's sponsor K Computer designed technology company Fujitsu.

Yet despite its internal systems designed by engineers of China, Tianhe-1A was then constructed using a processor chip that is made ​​by U.S. technology companies Intel and Nvidia. Similarly with Japan's K computer, using the Sparc chip designed at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley, USA.

That is why China's ambition to create a super computer that is really the whole product is the result of their own design.

Source : New York times

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