via gizmodo.com
The Sunday Times is reporting that RIM is planning to split its handset and messaging network into two separate companies, then sell off the ill-fated BlackBerry hardware business.
As part of the move, the newspaper suggests that RIM would keep its messaging and data networks—including BBM, BIS, and BES—in-house, and then license them out to third parties. That's a theory that's been floated before, but never come to fruition.
The news comes on the back of a strategic review carried out by RIM in conjunction with RBC and JP Morgan. Though The Sunday Times does not explicitly cite any sources in its report, it does suggest that Facebook or Amazon may both prove to be "potential buyers" of the hardware wing.
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