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Byline: IAIN MARLOW THE LUNCH / SEAN YANG PRESIDEN, HUAWEI CANADA / TECHNOLOGY MARKHAM, ONT. -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER To understand China's distant past, Sean Yang suggests you visit his hometown [...]

Byline: Iain Marlow 2012 / IN CASE YOU MISSED IT You're speaking to me from India, a so-called BRIC nation whose GDP growth sputtered to its slowest in seven years. [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW 01/13 / VENTURE Every once in a while, industries collide and create immense opportunity. It happened a few years ago with smartphones, when increasingly more powerful computing [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Shares of Research In Motion Ltd., which have soared over the past two months on a burst of positive sentiment, fell sharply Friday as investors digested [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW HIGHFIELD ROAD AND GERRARD STREET EAST Next to Bombay Chowpatty's cheerful neon storefront on Gerrard Street East, a string of festive lights are slung across several empty [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research in Motion Ltd., edging past low analyst expectations for its third quarter, says it has amassed enough cash to launch its make-or-break BlackBerry [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW AGENDA Research In Motion Ltd. has had an incredible run over the past couple of months, its shares doubling on hype surrounding its upcoming BlackBerry 10 phones [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW THE TELL Mae Azango was not home when they came to get her, and she wasn't at her office when they looked for her there. About a [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY As Research In Motion Ltd. prepares for the launch early in 2013 of its crucial new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the company is starting to roll out [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW RESEARCH IN MOTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd.'s stock is see-sawing unpredictably, lurching in bursts of 10 per cent with every 'buy' and 'sell' rating from [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Digital keyboard The first BB10 phone will be all touchscreen with no physical keyboard, followed shortly after by a device with a physical keyboard and a [...]

Byline: Iain Marlow BUSINESS TICKER / WIRELESS Research In Motion Ltd. says its coming BlackBerry 10 smartphones are now being tested with 50 wireless carriers around the world, including at [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Google Inc. can usually rely on the Web's instantaneous enthusiasm to help generate the search traffic that make its targeted advertising so profitable. But [...]

Byline: Iain Marlow Where the cloud lives Sweden Thirty metres below Stockholm, in a former civil-defence nuclear shelter, Swedish ISP Bahnhof AB's Pionen Data Centre is the perfect storage facility [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW RESEARCH IN MOTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTER A decade after Research In Motion Ltd. introduced its first smartphone, the tribe of BlackBerry users has stopped growing. RIM is in [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW THE IPHONE 5* The company that invented the original iPhone no longer exists. Apple Inc. unveiled the latest edition of the world's best [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Apple Inc.'s landmark, $1-billion patent victory over Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has investors reexamining the prospects for rivals struggling to keep up with the [...]

Byline: CARRIE TAIT and IAIN MARLOW THE ECONOMY CALGARY and TORONTO -- Some of the country's largest corporations are striking back at Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, arguing he [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Apple Inc. has gone where no company has ever been before, nearing the $625-billion (U.S.) mark in stock market value amid a [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Roughly 248 million kilometres away on the dusty, barren surface of Mars, Canadian technology is thriving. There, far from the high-profile difficulties of Research [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW The Lookahead: Aug. 6 - 10 / TELECOM Telecommunications firm BCE Inc. is positioned to report strong second-quarter earnings this week, even as it continues to go [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY The social media frenzy has hit a decidedly anti-social reality. Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social network and anchor of the [...]

Byline: TARA PERKINS and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.'s decision to roughly double its stake in Research In Motion Ltd. gives it a significant amount of sway in [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Corp., which defined and dominated the technology sector for the past three decades, has been humbled, becoming one tech firm among many. The software giant [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TABLETS Research In Motion Ltd. has stumbled from one disaster to the next over the past year, with disastrous financial results, dwindling sales and a perception that [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY WATERLOO, ONT -- Research In Motion Ltd. shareholders and others close to the company increasingly believe the board needs stronger directors and a new chair. A [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER With little to offer investors but the prospect of months of bad news, Research In Motion Ltd.'s chief executive officer decided to reach out [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW COVER STORY WATERLOO, ONT. -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. is not dead. But it's dead as we know it. The sacking of 5,000 people, or [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW RESEARCH IN MOTION Research In Motion is slashing its global work force by 5,000, nearly a third of its employees, as the one-time icon of Canadian innovation [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW and JOSH O'KANE TECHNOLOGY When Emily Davis bought her first smartphone, all of her friends had BlackBerrys, so she got one, too. The 23-year-old, who recently graduated [...]

Byline: Iain Marlow TECHNOLOGY Without saying where the information comes from, a report by the Sunday Times of London says that Research In Motion Ltd. wants to separate the hardware [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. has confirmed it is in the middle of implementing layoffs as part of a broader restructuring as the struggling BlackBerry [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW BUSINESS TICKER / MARKETING TECHNOLOGY REPORTER A lavish launch party for the new Porsche Design store on Toronto's Mink Mile this week featured the predictable tailored suits, [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who built Research In Motion Ltd. into a global smartphone giant before presiding over the company's long slide, will [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW DAY ZERO January 22 On a brisk Sunday afternoon in late January, Thorsten Heins towers over a long boardroom table in RIM 10, one of the many [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW RESEARCH IN MOTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief marketing officer will be under intense scrutiny as he attempts to craft a new message for [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd.'s stock has dropped roughly 15 per cent since the unveiling of its crucial BlackBerry 10 software on Tuesday, and hit [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd.'s new CEO Thorsten Heins unveiled an early version of the long-awaited BlackBerry 10 platform, but investors signalled the new software [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The remarkable ascent of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. - from a nobody to mobile industry heavyweight in just a few years - has been [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW and TARA PERKINS TECHNOLOGY TORONTO -- Research In Motion Ltd.'s comeback story is likely to take at least several years, according to comments from one of the [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW and OMAR EL AKKAD COVER STORY During the height of the world's addiction to the device known as 'the CrackBerry,' it would have been difficult to imagine [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW and TARA PERKINS TECHNOLOGY WATERLOO, ONT. and TORONTO -- Before Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief executive officer, Thorsten Heins, could take the troubled smartphone giant down [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW NEW WIRELESS REGULATIONS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Small wireless companies gained better access to foreign capital in Ottawa's telecom shakeup, but they lost a significant fight to tilt the [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE and IAIN MARLOW TELECOMMUNICATIONS OTTAWA and TORONTO -- In its first major effort to loosen restrictions on foreign investment, the Harper government is throwing a lifeline to [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER A prominent industry analyst has cut his price target and profit estimates for Research In Motion Ltd. ahead of the company's fourth-quarter earnings release [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW INTERNET TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Two of the world's biggest technology companies are bolstering their efforts to harness personal data in the intensifying fight for online advertising revenues. Google [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Apple Inc.'s market capitalization soared to the historic high of $500-billion (U.S.) on Tuesday as the global technology industry buzzed over an invitation to [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. has maintained a narrow lead in the Canadian smartphone market ahead of Apple Inc., but has lost a lot of [...]

Byline: IAIN MARLOW TABLETS WATERLOO, ONT. -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER At a meeting with about 10 of Research In Motion Ltd.'s senior managers in Waterloo, Ont., last September, the man tasked [...]

Byline: Iain MarlowCOVER STORY / CELLPHONES / THE TWO SIDES OF THE DIVIDEThere is always bickering in Canada about the state of wireless competition.One side (mainly consumer groups, academics and [...]