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CIO — These are dark days for Research In Motion and its BlackBerry brand…or at least dim ones.

The Canadian company is struggling with an increasingly negative market perception, shrinking customer loyalty as long-time BlackBerry users move on, and stiff competition from rivals, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, among other things.

But that doesn’t mean it should all be doom and gloom for RIM right now. Here are five reasons why current BlackBerry users and others interested in the brand and its future should remain optimistic in the coming months. <

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ATT has just announced the availability of Pantechs brand new LTE Android smartphone Burst on their network. The handset retails for $49.99 with a new 2-year contract agreement. In case you didnt know, the Pantech Burst packs a 4.0-inch 800 x 480 AMOLED touchscreen display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 16GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), a front-facing camera, a 5MP rear-facing camera, LTE support, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, a 1650mAh battery and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.

A new version of GPU-Z is out! Grab it here. GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU in case you haven’t used the utility before! This version improves the support for the AMD Radeon HD 7970 Graphics card voltage monitoring and real-time clock monitoring. Here is a screen shot of GPU-Z v0.5.8 running on our AMD A8-3500M APU with AMD Radeon HD 6620G Graphics.

Revision History 0.5.8

• Added explanation about PCI-Express power savings and 3D render test to accurately measure bus config under load
• Added function to display ASIC quality for Fermi and Southern Islands.

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