...George Leong B.Comm.: Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:RIMM) appears to be rising from the ashes, as investors dive back into the stock of the once-fabled maker of the “BlackBerry.” For Research In Motion (RIM), it has been quite the journey after the investment community, including myself, thought the end was near for this former Wall Street star. Since the emergence of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), the BlackBerry and RIM’s “Playbook” tablet have proved to be horrible failures, based on my stock analysis. But something strange is happening in the equities market, as RIM has surged 168% since trading at $6.43 on September 21, 2012; Apple, on the other hand, has declined 29% in the same period, according to my technical analysis. My stock analysis shows an opening gap on the RIM stock chart on January 22 on a bullish moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) as indicated by the circles; while this is bullish, be wary of the stock’s overbought condition. Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com The smartphone and tablet markets continue to be extremely competitive, and I expect this competition will heat up further, based on my stock analysis. My stock analysis suggests that Apple dominates the tablet market, but there is strong competition from Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) “Nexus” tablet and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s “Galaxy” series. (Read “Why Apple Needs to Refocus Its Energy.”) Some believers are also surfacing as RIM gets ready to launch new its new line of devices...
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...Case Analysis #2 Research in Motion NETW583 Martin D. Francis March 20, 2015 Introduction Research In Motion (RIM) began in 1984 with two School of Engineering students from Canada, Mike Lazaridis President and Co-CEO (University of Waterloo) and Douglas Fregin Vice President of Operations (University of Windsor). These two young men had ambition and vision that translated into success. RIM became the first to market in the wireless data technology industry. From 1988 through 2006 they produced a number of Award winning products in the Wireless Data Communication Technology Industry that kept them on the cutting edge of Information Technology and Innovation. Challenges Faced by RIM RIM became an industry giant faced with producing continued innovative products in the rapidly changing environment of Wireless Data Communications in the field of Information Technology. They grasped a large share of the market with the creation and continued development of the Black Barry their most famous product and its’ technology. They had to forecast the future in order to meet market demands and reserve resources while keeping up with the competition during a time of rapidly changing technology. In 2005 the company learned a real lesson relative to filing and protecting the patients for their creations. They became victims of injustice when they were ordered to pay $612.5 million to New Technology Products (NTP) which doesn’t actually make or sell anything relative to the patients...
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...RGS 2014 Year 3 Physics Performance Task (A) Introduction This report is the analysis of the motion of a Slinky dropping. When a slinky is fully extended and then released, it can be seen that the top and bottom of the slinky act somewhat unusually and do not fall at an acceleration of 9.81 m/s. In order to understand this motion, a video tracking software has been used to track these two points of the slinky. This report focuses on the y-direction (vertical) movement of these points through two phases. Phase A to B is when the top of the slinky has yet to meet the bottom of the slinky. When the slinky is fully compressed, this is when phase B to C begins, and it ends when the slinky hits the floor. The aim of this report is to analyse these results, in order to explain the movement of the falling slinky. (B) Procedure In this experiment, a 21cm ruler has been used for a reference length for the video tracking software. For increased accuracy, a longer reference length should be used. The procedure, which should be recorded using a camera on a tripod stand, placed such that there is no perspective error, is as follows: 1. Hold slinky from the top most coil so that it is fully extended and does not touch the floor. (See Diagram B1) 2. When the slinky has settled and there is minimal movement, release the slinky. 3. Stop recording when the Slinky has come to a complete rest. The height that the Slinky is released from is unimportant, as the video tracking...
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...Campbell Messner HPEZ 373 4/8/14 Motion Analysis Report: Hockey Slap Shot The hockey slap shot is a complex movement involving many different joints and muscles. In game situations the hockey slap shot is usually used by defenseman, but can be utilized successfully by forwards as well. There are six phases to a hockey slap shot: backswing, downswing, pre-loading, loading, release, and follow through. The hockey slap shot is most of the time made with a carbon fiber hockey stick that has a pre-determined amount of “flex” to the stick to get the puck moving at such high velocities. Accuracy of the puck placement usually depends of whether or not the puck is struck in the loading portion of the swing or in the release portion of the swing. The follow through is also important when determining placement. Unlike most primary sports movements, the hockey slap shot is a dynamic movement where the player is moving along the ice while striking the puck. This is what allows the slap shot to be so dangerous and interesting. To begin a slap shot a player must place the puck at around the middle of their stance for best power. The first movement of the slap shot is the backswing. Depending on which side the player stick handles, right or left, the dominant hand will be first on the stick and the non-dominant placed further down the stick. For the rest of the analysis we will use a player with a left-handed shot. In the backswing of the shot this is where the kinetic energy is developed...
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...FUNdaMENTALS of Design Alexander H. Slocum Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA slocum@mit.edu ™ FUNdaMENTALS of Design Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering This book was made possible by a generous gift from Neil and Jane Pappalardo Support for this book was also provided by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, and iCampus the Microsoft-MIT Alliance ©2007 Alexander H. Slocum ABOUT This Book A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his. "You grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers..." Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation?"1 This book is about helping people to learn how to create their own future! It does this by taking advantage of the fact that the reader’s LEFT brain sees the LEFT side (FUN) of the book. The RIGHT brain sees the (MENTAL) side of the book. Its simply FUNdaMENTAL! This in itself is a key feature of this book: It seeks to train the brain to think by many a link. Creating things is NOT done by following a monotonous recipe... The ability to create can be learned by anyone who has a yearn to learn! But the eye must be quick to sort and pick! Embedded inside, many...
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...Section I: * Good reason: reasons that are psychologically compelling for a given audience that makes further inquiry both unnecessary and redundant. Therefore, justifying a decision to affirm or reject a proposition. (Page 2, 12th Edition) Example: * Ethos: means to convince by the character of the author and by the amount of respect and credibility the commands from the audience. Example: As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results. * NDT*: National debate tournament. (Page 20, 12th Edition). * CEDA*: Cross Examination Debate Association. (Page 20, 12th Edition) * Sophists: A person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments. Example: A person who uses graphs and scientific observation to convince someone that humans are not mammals. * Enthymeme: (1) A truncated syllogism, in which one of the premises or the conclusion is not stated. (Page 153, 12th Edition) Example: “You will come out victorious, just do your best." The missing premise is "All people who do their best are people who come out victorious." * Deduction: Argument that begins with a broad generalization and moves to a more specific application or conclusion. (Page 170, 12th Edition) Example: All living organisms eventually die. A flower is a living organism. Therefore, it will eventually die. * Induction: Argument that begins with a specific case and moves to a broader generalization...
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...perfect speed and circle around a focal point. 4) Now move the ball at a slow constant speed across the screen. What do you notice now about the vectors? Explain why this happens. When I move them in the same direction they are even/on top of each other. This happens because the velocity or direction and speed are constant making the acceleration constant. 5) What happens to the vectors when you jerk the ball rapidly back and forth across the screen? Explain why this happens. The blue arrow goes with the green the shoots in the opposite direction shortly after. This happens because of the ball decelerating rapidly before traveling in the other direction and repeating the process 6) Now click on ‘Circular’ on the bottom. Describe the motion of the ball and the behavior of the two vectors. Is there a force on the ball? How can you tell? Be detailed in your explanations. Since the speed is now constant, the velocity...
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...* 000000 Motion * Acceleration * Velocity Keywords * Motion * Acceleration * Velocity * Circular Motion * Vectors * Harmonic Motion * Kinematics * Rotational Motion * Linear Motion Sample Learning Goals * Is the velocity vector blue or green? How can you tell? * Is the acceleration vector blue or green? How can you tell? * Explain why the velocity and acceleration vectors behave as they do for the preset motions (linear acceleration I, II, circular motion, & harmonic motion). Tips for Teachers The teacher's guide (pdf) contains tips created by the PhET team. Teaching Ideas Title | Authors | Level | Type | Updated | 2D Motion | Patrick Foley | HS | Lab | 9/20/12 | Rotational Motion | Sarah Stanhope | HS | Lab | 1/27/11 | 1 Dimensional Motion - Kinematics and Graphing | Sarah Stanhope | HS | Lab | 1/27/11 | Introduction to rotational motion | Sarah Stanhope | HS UG-Intro | CQs | 2/24/10 | 2D Motion Activity | Drew Isola | HS | CQs | 1/11/09 | Vectors Phet Lab | Chris Bires | HS | Lab | 8/4/10 | Modeling a linear simple harmonic oscillator | Mark Kelly | UG-Intro | Lab | 4/7/08 | Motion in Two Dimensions | Gretchen Swanson | HS | Lab | 9/18/07 | You can submit your own ideas and activities. Translated Versions: Language | Language (Translated) | Simulation Title | | | Arabic | العربية | الحركة في بعدين | Run Now | Download | Arabic, Saudi Arabia | العربية (السعودية) | الحركة...
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...Chapter 1 Inroduction Paint History Chapter 1 1.1 Paint History: Paint is one of the oldest synthetic substances known, with a history stretching back into prehistoric times. Prehistoric man made it more than 35,000 years ago as they mixed clays and chalks with animal fats and used these paints to depict their hunts on cave walls. By 2500BC, Egyptians had improved the technology by developing a clear blue pigment by grinding azurite, gums, wax and egg white as binders and solvents for their paints. Greeks learnt to blend paints with hot wax, rather than water, making paint both thicker and easier to spread. By this time, colours were available from natural and synthetic sources, one of the most interesting being a purple pigment made from heating yellow earth till it turned red and then plunging it into vinegar. In the eighteenth century, paint factories began to open in Europe and America, and by the nineteenth century, mass production had brought prices down where houses began to be painted. In the twentieth century, paint manufacturing and its function is widely understood especially from chemical point of view, meaning that paint manufacture has finally moved from being an art to being a science. 1.2 Paint Importance and Its Production: Paints are used for the protection and appearance enhancement of houses, buildings, cars, ships and many more. They are used as a safety feature to grab person attention like in lane markings on road and...
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...Name ___________Anna Marie Herbold_________________________ Motion in 2D Simulation Go to HYPERLINK "http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Motion_in_2D" http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Motion_in_2D and click on Run Now. 1) Once the simulation opens, click on ‘Show Both’ for Velocity and Acceleration at the top of the page. Now click and drag the red ball around the screen. Make 3 observations about the blue and green arrows (also called vectors) as you drag the ball around. 1. The green vector seems to be always longer than the blue vector. 2. When the ball is moved quickly, only the blue vector travels forwards and backwards. The green only travels forwards. 3. If you drag the ball slowly around, the green vector is visible but the blue vector seems to disappear. 2) Which color vector (arrow) represents velocity and which one represents acceleration? How can you tell? Acceleration is the green vector and velocity is the blue vector. For example, when you drag the ball slowly the blue vector is hardly seen because there is very little velocity when moving at a slow pace. The green vector is seen because this is acceleration which is a change in speed, which is happening at even a slow pace. 3) Try dragging the ball around and around in a circular path. What do you notice about the lengths and directions of the blue and green vectors? Describe their behavior in detail below. The lengths of the vectors seem to...
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...Lab # 111 “Projectile Motion” Objectives : The purpose of this lab is to understand projectile motion in two dimensions and apply linear motion equations to solve the problem. Also to predict where a given size bullet to be placed in horizontal direction to leaving table. In addition to that measure the range of projectile leaving table at an angle, and use the value to predict where the projectile bullet to strike at floor. Theory : To predict where bullet will land on the floor when lunched from the mini launcher from a table at an angle, but to do that first we need to determine the velocity of the bullet and to determine by launching the bullet horizontally from the table and measuring the vertical and horizontal distances through distance that the bullet travels. Then the initial velocity can be used to calculate where the bullet will land when the bullet lunched from the mini launcher at an angle. Horizontally lunched bullet at θ=0 off a table with an initial speed, vo, the horizontal distance travelled by the bullet and the vertical distance of the bullet drop in time t describe: x= v0t (1) y=v0yt+12gt2 (2) Now we can determine the initial velocity of the bullet by measuring x and y. where y = 0, therefore, the time of the bullet can be found by equation: t= 2yg, Where g = 9.8 (3) Now, to guess the range of the bullet, x, at and angle, θ, above horizontal, we guess the time of the bullet using vertical motion equation: 12gt2-(v0sinθ)t-H=0...
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...Case Study - Research in Motion (RIM) Summary "Research in Motion (RIM) is the company behind BlackBerry, the best-selling smart-phone brand in the United States. Today, the company is credited with launching the handheld smart phone craze and the obsession with 24/7/365 access to e-mail and the Intranet" (Kotler & Keller, 2012). In 1997 RIM went public and two years later they introduced the BlackBerry. After September 11, 2001 BlackBerry became known and popular due to the government using the product. Analysis RIM focused on a strategy of building the BlackBerry brand as the most reliable, secure, and efficient data device solution on the market. RIM continued to create and provide new generations of Blackberry's that featured: longer-lasting batteries, improved wireless Internet access, an organizer, calendar, and pager. "It took five years, but in 2003 RIM sold its one millionth BlackBerry. Only one year later it sold its two millionth device, and the BlackBerry's growth exploded. In 2005, PCWorld named the BlackBerry 850 the 14th greatest gadget of the past 50 years, and between 2006 and 2008, Fortune dubbed RIM the fastest-growing company in the world." (Kotler & Keller, 2012). By RIM creating BlackBerry, they changed the way communicate, worked, and lived. What the company did well and made them unique was the end to end solution; it developed and produced the hardware as well as the software and services that made BlackBerry work. "RIM successfully targeted its...
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...the Weather Criterion is discussed for the cruise ship design based on the new model tests and the results from the numerical simulations, confirming that the criterion is not the limiting requirement for the examined ship design. Proposals for instructions are presented in order to improve accuracy of model test results and facilitate the possibility to derive limiting GM values based on model tests. Keywords: weather criterion, metacentric height, limit curve, roll, damping, irregular wave, sea state 1. INTRODUCTION The IMO Weather Criterion, resolution A.749(18) Chapter 3.2 (today superseded by resolution MSC.267(85) Part A Chapter 2.3), describes the ability of a ship to withstand the combined effects of beam wind and roll motions under a specified weather condition. The basic idea of the criterion is to determine the minimum metacentric height for which a ship still is able to withstand a prescribed sudden wind gust, while rolling under the action of...
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...Research in Motion (RIM) Abstract Canadian company Research in Motion Limited (RIM) has been on the decline struggling to hold onto market share. Global competition includes Apple's iPhone and smart phones running Google's Android operating system, which contributed to a decline in RIM’s profit and share value hitting a nine year low. Executive shake ups and a strategic plan is to streamline operations includes cutting at least 2,000 jobs worldwide in 2012. Opportunities live for RIM to prevent further stock sell off and devaluation by identifying alternatives and overcoming barriers within the organization. Under the direction of CEO, Thorsten Heins, RIM will redirect focus to the company's core customers and their changing needs. RIIM Overview Research in Motion Limited (RIM) a telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is best known as the maker of the Blackberry. RIM designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile and telecommunications market. In recent months, it has been making headlines for its declining market share and stock devaluation. Driven by a new CEO, RIM has recently announced layoffs, and strategic plans with more changes for the struggling company planned in efforts to spark a turn-around. Research in Motion Limited (RIM) Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. RIM’s portfolio...
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...International business module code MOD001055 International Business: Element 010 – Assignment 3000 words (80%) Lecturer name INDRA BALAN Table of contents Introduction * Market share * Beginning specification Current situation for BLACKBERRY Market strategy Chronological of economy slowdown in the host country PESTEL analysis * POLITCAL * Economic factor * SOCIAL * TECNOLOGY * Legal * Environment CONCLUSION RECOMINDATION Introduction In this world there are different types of smart phone companies but we need to cover one Multinational company and that will BLACKBERRY limited. Basically black berry is founded in 1984 by Mike Lazaridisin in waterloo, Canada. Blackberry limited is also known as motion research limited, it is a Canadian wireless and telecommunication equipment company. The black berry first device 850 was introduced in 1999 with the name of two way pager. The name so the cell phone was chosen due to the resemblance of the keyboards button. And that also compose with the blue berry fruit. The first devices of original black berry are RIM857 – 850 are introduced with the Data TAC network operation. And after the new device name as Convergent smart phone was commonly known was introduced. With the specification of mobile telephone email services and the main production is text messaging. Market share In the year is 2003 they gained a huge market share in the industry of cell phone, by just concentrating...
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