{"id":23526,"date":"2012-07-10T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23526"},"modified":"2012-07-10T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:50:40","slug":"rim-customers-back-up-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/rim-customers-back-up-plan","title":{"rendered":"RIM Customers Working On A Back-Up Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23527\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23527\" title=\"rim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rim.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rim-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corporate customers, the backbone of RIM\u2019s business, are fortifying contingency plans so they won\u2019t be affected by a possible breakup of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd., or other setbacks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) customers from GoDaddy Group Inc. to asset manager Thames River Capital UK Ltd. are preparing for the worst: the loss of the BlackBerry service their employees depend on to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>RIM\u2019s stock has slumped more than 70 percent in the past year, and tumbled 19 percent on June 29 after the company posted a quarterly loss and delayed the BlackBerry 10 operating system, increasing the pressure on RIM to find a buyer or sell assets. While RIM has built infrastructure to ensure continued service, some customers are devising backup plans as RIM prepares to face shareholders at its annual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past three months there\u2019s been a lot of concern that the BlackBerry platform won\u2019t be around in the future,\u201d said Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, a wireless- industry consultant based in San Francisco. \u201cIt\u2019s not unheard of for a large phone manufacturer to go out of business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corporate customers, the backbone of RIM\u2019s business, are fortifying contingency plans so they won\u2019t be affected by a possible breakup of the BlackBerry-maker or other setbacks. With millions of employees connecting to the office through mobile e- mail, companies have been eager to establish a fallback or replacement plan, said Avi Greengart, a technology research director at Current Analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Thames River Capital supplies about 140 of its 170 employees with smartphones, most of them BlackBerrys, said Robert Cockerill, head of infrastructure at the London-based money manager. With the delay of BlackBerry 10 and a service contract with RIM expiring this year, Cockerill said he expects much of his staff to switch to Apple Inc.\u2019s (AAPL) iPhone or devices based on Google Inc.\u2019s Android platform.<br \/>\nService Disruption<\/p>\n<p>Cockerill has brought in MobileIron Inc., a Mountain View, California-based developer of software that helps companies manage and protect data on mobile devices and tablets. MobileIron provides security for Thames River Capital including encryption and password protection for non-BlackBerry devices such as iPads, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) customers are preparing for the worst: the loss of the BlackBerry service their employees depend on to communicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,69,43],"class_list":["post-23526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-internet","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}