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Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire

A stunning article from The Verge. Research In Motion, whose BlackBerry phones pioneered wireless email, no longer holds the commanding heights in the smartphone market. With Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone gaining market share, the Waterloo, Ontario, company finds itself in a battle for relevancy. The past year has been especially hard on the …

Playbook OS 2.0 available today, officially brings Android apps to BlackBerry

Wait a minute, BlackBerry Playbook news on an Android site? Yup. This is a PSA to let the few that care know that the BlackBerry Playbook has just been updated starting today to their new OS v2.0 bringing Android app support and a few other desperately needed features to the tablet. Now it even has …

Monday Brief: BlackBerry 10 OS images, Microsoft’s rumored new music service, and more!

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Monday Brief: BlackBerry 10 OS images, Microsoft’s rumored new music service, and more!

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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 now ready for download

After touring the exhibition circuit for what seems like an eternity, PlayBook OS 2.0 is finally ready to settle down and make itself available for download. Check for updates via Settings on your tablet and you should see it sitting there, wearing last season’s fashions but nevertheless looking every inch the major OTA update that …

Porting your Android app to the BlackBerry PlayBook? Make due without ads

A lot of Android developers have been looking at the BlackBerry PlayBook as a new revenue platform, since RIM has developed a set of tools that make porting Android apps to the PlayBook OS a piece of cake. That interest only increased when RIM started literally giving tablets away to Android developers who joined the …

RIM Blackberry Playbook won’t support ad-powered Android apps

When Research in Motion’s Playbook tablet first began to show signs of struggling, analysts suggested one of the only ways to rise from the grave would be to offer some way of bringing Android apps to the platform. The Blackberry App World marketplace simply wasn’t attractive to developers, and consumers were not impressed by the …

Mobile Nations 14: New BlackBerry boss, unstoppable Android, iPad 3 vs. Windows 8

Kevin, Phil, Derek, Daniel, and Rene discuss RIM’s new CEO and what it means for BlackBerry in 2012, the unstoppable Android, iPad 3 vs. Windows 8 tablets, Chinese working conditions, and apps and your privacy. This is Mobile Nations! Our podcast feed: Audio | Video Download directly: Audio | Video Subscribe in iTunes: Audio | …

Desperate measures: BlackBerry Playbook developer giveaway extended by two weeks

Remember that stunk that BlackBerry maker RIM pulled to get Android developers to submit their apps to the BlackBerry App World? You know, the one that essentially gives away the company’s one and only tablet to anyone willing to jump ship? After an excited initial response from Android developers, RIM has decided to extend the promotional …

RIM’s Blackberry 10 gets new leaked photos

New pictures of what is reported to be Research in Motion’s next-generationg Blackberry operating system have surfaced, and they show a platform that looks like a mix of Windows Phone’s large home-screen widgets and Android’s app selection menu. In other words, it’s a Blackberry OS that actually belongs in the 21st century, but the question …

NOAA scraps Blackberry for iPhones, iPads

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), otherwise known as the federal agency filled with a bunch of weather nerds, has become the latest in a growing list of major organizations that have decided to cancel their Blackberry contracts. NOAA will instead start issuing corporate iPhones and iPads to its employees, according to an …

RIM claims BlackBerry apps make more money than Android apps

Oh, RIM. Pity the once-might conquerors of the corporate smartphone world, for they have been reduced to petty sniping while trying to emulate that which they hate. In its latest fit of corporate chest-thumping, the BlackBerry manufacturer has shouted to its European developer conference that apps on the BlackBerry App World are more profitable than their Android counterparts. Citing …

ComScore: Android still dominates US, BlackBerry and Windows fall further behind

Remember those reports from last month that showed Apple beating out Android in the latter half of 2011? The ones that half the internet jumped on as proof that Android was “falling behind”? Yeah, not so much. Despite a massive rise in iPhone sales in the fourth quarter, Android is still way out in front …

Fancy a free Blackberry Playbook? Just submit an Android app!

RIM seem to be getting more desperate to flog their Playbook tablet. AFter a string of price cuts, Alec Saunders of RIM tweeted yesterday to let Android devs know they can grab a free device by submitting their app by February 13th. Image courtesy of Engadget Could this prove to be a masterstroke in getting …

RIM lures Android developers with free BlackBerry PlayBooks

Are you an Android developer? Do you collect obsolete and failed pieces of technology in a museum of electronic sadness? Looking for something to fill the space in between your HP TouchPad, Palm Folio and Nintendo Virtual Boy? Then Research in Motion has a deal for you. The Canadian BlackBerry manufacturer wants to build buzz around the …

BlackBerry 7 devices get American, Canadian Government approval

The Governments of the USA and Canada have announced that BlackBerry 7 (and 7.1) smartphones are suitable for official use. The units have been granted FIPS 140-2 certification, demonstrating a suitable level of cryptographic security to protect sensitive information. Gear that hasn’t been FIPS-certified can’t be purchased by Government agencies, so RIM can expect to …

First BlackBerry 10 superphone pictures leak. Or, RIM’s homage to Android’s homage of iPhone

New images have leaked showing what may be code-name London, or the first of the next-generation BlackBerry 10 superphones expected to ship from RIM at the end of 2012 and… they look like Android phones that look like iPhones. Kevin Michaluk from CrackBerry.com pitches them a phone-sized PlayBooks but after being teased with the far …

The first BlackBerry 10 phone

CrackBerry has managed to nab an image of what is supposed to be one of the first BlackBerry 10 phones. Looks familiar, but also looks good. Lost In Mobile

BlackBerry London resurfaces in leak, sports matte black exterior, nonexistent OS

That salacious onyx number up there? Per CrackBerry, it’s a rendering of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry codenamed London. Found lurking in a leaked Waterloo slidedeck, the svelte render now sports a more curvaceous and onyx exterior — a departure from the angular metallic P’9981-esque dummy-unit first spied back in November. Those tweaks validate another rumor, which …

BlackBerry Playbook gets Android apps after February 6th

Got a BlackBerry Playbook? If the ales figures are anything to go by, probably not – but hey, maybe you’ve got a friend or a boss who was brought low by a Staples salesman. If that’s the case, be sure and tell him or her that the handful of apps huddling together for warmth in …

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