Operating Systems, Tablets, RIM BlackBerry, Google, Android, PlayBook
The RIM PlayBook by just received a developers update that adds some interesting new Android functionality to RIM’s tablet. This new version now supports Android apps running in their own windows, improving compatibility with the general Android app universe.

Operating Systems, Tablets, RIM BlackBerry, Google, Android, PlayBook
Earlier this month, Research in Motion began to offer free BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to any Android developers that repackaged their apps for App World. Due to overwhelming interest, the Monday deadline for registration has been extended to February 15th and all developers will have until March 2nd...

Operating Systems, Apple, RIM BlackBerry, Google, Android, iOS 5
Those of you who have been following the news closely probably know that Thorsten Heins is now leading the company in distress that RIM currently is. He will be the one responsible for bringing RIM back on its feet after a very disappointing in terms of financials 2011. And to accomplish that feat, the...

Operating Systems, RIM BlackBerry
Research In Motion will show off its new operating system, BlackBerry OS 10, in February at Mobile World Congress.

Although the company has said that BB OS 10 devices won't be in the hands of consumers until later in 2012, it has told Pocket-lint that it will be showing the new operating system...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7
In their look back over the past year, Distimo has confirmed in their monthly report that Marketplace is now the 3rd largest app platform, after iOS and the Android Marketplace, and the 4th largest app store, after the iPhone app store, iPad app store and Android Marketplace.



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Operating Systems, Tablets, RIM BlackBerry, Google, Android, PlayBook
After a brief lead-up period, the Dingleberry jailbreak for the BlackBerry PlayBook is now publicly available, though still in a very early beta. The exploit used to gain root access is actually pretty simple. PlayBook backup files used in the BlackBerry Desktop Software apparently aren’t signed, which...

Operating Systems, Microsoft, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Wireless, Windows Phone 7
Despite the poor sales of Microsoft’s Windows Phone devices, Verizon seems to have more confidence in the platform than RIM’s BlackBerry. During the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam expressed his opinion on which platform would emerge as the third major mobile operating...

Operating Systems, Tablets, RIM BlackBerry, PlayBook
This may not be much of a surprise but Bloomberg is reporting that the BlackBerry smartphones running the QNX software will definitely be able to utilize Android apps. That means the upcoming BlackBerry Colt may launch with a healthy amount of apps.

We already knew that the BlackBerry PlayBook...

Operating Systems, Tablets, RIM BlackBerry, Google, Android, PlayBook
RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook features a handful of apps, but we've been teased with the promise of Android app support for months. And now we seem closer than ever to the final version as a beta of the BlackBerry PlayBook Android app player leaked out. The application was found through a changelog in an...

Operating Systems, Tablets, Microsoft, RIM BlackBerry, Google, Windows 7, Android, PlayBook
Microsoft has yet to launch its tablet-optimized operating system and yet slates running various versions of the Windows operating system still managed to outsell Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook last quarter. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics’ latest report, Windows-powered...

Operating Systems, Apple, RIM BlackBerry, Google, Android
The latest numbers have come out from comScore and it has some revealing stats about the state of the U.S. smartphone market. Basically, Apple and Android are winners while RIM and Microsoft are the losers.

Perhaps helped by the Verizon iPhone, Apple iOS was able to surpass RIM’s BlackBerry OS...

Operating Systems, Microsoft, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, 6.0
Today brought some sobering news for both RIM and Microsoft. The Q1 numbers are in and both companies saw their mobile business take a terrible beating. RIM's overall market share stayed steady, at 3%...

Operating Systems, RIM BlackBerry
The BB OS 6.1 update that grew too big for its name has just been made official by RIM as BlackBerry 7. Its ambassador into the wide world of smartphones will be the newly minted BlackBerry Bold Touch...

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, PlayBook
We're taking this with a grain of salt, since it applies only to users of the cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development environment, but it appears that Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingl...

Notebooks, Operating Systems, RIM BlackBerry, Google, PlayBook, Android 2.3
Today RIM announced that they’re expanding the developer ecosystem not only with a native SDK that high-end game developers have been toying with privately on the PlayBook tablet, but also two app lay...