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$1.7m worth of Playbooks are stolen
CANADIAN DEVICE MAKER RIM has suffered another blow after 5,000 of its latest Playbook tablets were stolen from a truck in the US.
According to the Verge,, a truck containing 22 pallets of Playbooks was stolen from an Indiana truck stop while the driver was having a bite to eat and taking a shower. The loss of around 5,000 Playbooks was valued at $1.7m.
The devices didn't have tracking devices, but a local police spokesman did mention Miami as a popular place for stolen goods. Apparently police think that there could be up to five suspects involved, and they might have the fingerprints of one of those. Police will also be asking for help from the FBI and an Interstate Theft Task Force to recover the truck and its cargo.
It comes at a bad time for Blackberry maker RIM. Last week, the firm said it was delaying the launch of smartphones running its Blackberry 10 operating system amid disappointing financial results.
RIM's Blackberry 10 smartphones were initially earmarked for launch in the first three months of 2012, but the company said that they will now be released later in the year.
The company reported disappointing financial results for the quarter ended 26 November last week.
RIM sold only 150,000 Blackberry Playbook tablets in the third quarter, although based on its internal data it said that sell-through to end customers was higher than this number.
The company also said that it will take a charge of $50m related to the service outage that occurred in the quarter. µ
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You can bet the drivers are going to prison for a long time.
Really? Someone's stealing playbooks? This has insurance fraud/viral compaign written all over it. What better way to get a nice big insurance check and increase Playbook awareness right before Christmas? They probably just stick big Apple stickers all over the truck and left it on the street of L.A.
But don't worry RIM, you'll find your thiefs soon enough. The only people buying the stolen playbooks off ebay or craiglists will be undercover cops anyway.
Shirley RIM has no record of the WiFi MAC addresses or device serial numbers, and has no chance of tracking the devices once used or registered on their AppWorld. Nope, no chance, that is only make-believe rhetoric in a lame attempt at theft deterrent.
Street value: $159.00 for all 5000.