Service outages and failure to keep up with the iPhone mean BlackBerry’s popularity is waning and its creators have paid the price.

Service outages and failure to keep up with the iPhone mean the BlackBerry’s popularity is waning and its creators have paid the price.

The CEOs of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion have resigned, handing the reins to former Siemens executive Thorsten Heins.

Research in Motion founders, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have resigned, paving the way for a change at the helm of the BlackBerry phone maker.