Delayed BlackBerry 10 smartphones adding video chat, CEO says..
BlackBerry 10 smartphones, slated to come in early 2013, will rely heavily on improved BlackBerry Messenger social networking tools, including new video chat capabilities, Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins told shareholders during a sometimes acrimonious annual meeting on Tuesday.
"BlackBerry Messenger is a very strong platform in Asia, Africa and Europe, and we're upgrading it with video chat in BlackBerry 10," Heins said during a question-and-answer session at the shareholder meeting, which was Webcast.
By some measures and in some geographies, Heins claimed, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is the "number one social network."
(The newest member of the RIM board is Timothy Dattels, a senior partner at TPG Capital, and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs.
The other eight directors approved by shareholders on Tuesday are: David Kerr, a director since 2007; Claudia Kotchka, first elected last July; RIM co-founder and foirmer CEO Mike Lazaridis, a director since 1984; Roger Martin, first elected in 2007; John Richardson, a director since 2003; Barbara Stymiest, who joined the board in 2007; Prem Watsa, elected in January; John Wetmore, a director since 2007; and Heins, elected in January.)
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