TORONTO: Oil field services company Halliburton plans to stop issuing BlackBerry smartphones to employees and switch over to Apple’s iPhone, which it said was better suited to its needs, marking another setback for Research In Motion (RIM).
RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones have long dominated corporate mobile communications with on-the-hip e-mail and security credentials, but are increasingly challenged by Apple products and smartphones running Google’s Android software.
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