The BlackBerry PlayBook just cannot carve out a spot for itself in the highly competitive tablet market. RIM has tried to move more units by slashing the PlayBook’s price through promotional offers with retailers, and it even recently held a $99 PlayBook fire sale with its employees. Still, the PlayBook continues to die a slow and expensive death. RIM now has to eat $485 million (or $360 million after taxes) for its fiscal third quarter as a result of not selling as many PlayBooks as it expected.

If you’re participating in Black Friday this week, Apple might have some good deals for you in its webstore this year. Apple has announced that it will indeed have Black Friday sales, though it sounds like the sale will only be online. The online Apple Store will have discounts on Macs, iPods, and iPads, with more »

Who would have imagined a failed tablet would turn out to be the most successful non-Apple tablet as of October 2011? The NPD Group released a report today that said 1.2 million non-Apple tablets were sold in the United States from January to October. The HP Touchpad accounted for 17% (204,000) of that number. HP was followed by Samsung, Asus, Motorola and Acer.

The iPhone 4S has broken yet another record, this time being the fastest iPhone to 1 million activations on AT&T. As of Tuesday of this week, AT&T has activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S units, just five days after the device was first sold in stores. According to AT&T, that makes the iPhone 4S more »

The iPhone 4S is continuing to impress with it’s sales numbers, with 4 million units sold in its first three days on sale. That’s on top of the 1 million units that Apple sold during the iPhone 4S’ pre-order. The 4 million iPhone 4S units sold is a new record for any phone sales in more »

Sprint has had its best day of sales ever thanks to the iPhone 4S. Sprint announced record sales at retail, the web and over the phone. The iPhone 4S was put on sale today and customers have been snatching up the phone like crazy. This isn’t really a surprise given the record-breaking pre-orders.

While those of us in the US are still waiting for an official release of any Galaxy S II phone, Samsung has announced a big milestone for the smartphone line. Before releasing the GalaxyS II in the US Samsung has announced that it has sold more than 5 million phones already. The Galaxy S II more »

Twitter, the 140 character messaging service is used for many things. Keeping tabs on folks, passing news around, finding jobs and now, finding sales leads. Thanks to some new features, InboxQ is taking a lead position in finding sales opportunities. Formerly just a browser plug in (Chome and Firefox), InboxQ is now a web application more »

The bad news streak continues for RIM. The company’s products aren’t doing so well in the United States due to stiff competition from the likes of iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. BlackBerry smartphones are coming off as relics of a bygone era. The BlackBerry PlayBook definitely had the potential to be one of the top selling tablets in the market, but glaring omissions such as a native email application set the PlayBook way back. Due to falling PlayBook sales, RIM has decreased the number of tablets it expects to sell.

There’s been a lot of speculation about the sales of the BlackBerry PlayBook and how disappointing they may or may not be. We still don’t have firm numbers from RIM itself, but we do have some lowered expectations from analyst Scott Sutherland from Wedbush Securities. Sutherland doesn’t seem convinced of the PlayBook’s success, as he more »