Research In Motion is offering an updated beta version of its BlackBerry Music product to Beta Zone testers. New features of the social music service include the ability to favorite songs, favorite contacts, and see the favorite songs of those contacts. New friend invitations now show users the prospective friend's music playlist before the friend request ...
Research In Motion today said that it plans to distribute a limited number of BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices to developers who attend an upcoming developer event to be held by RIM. RIM insists that the devices are not final BlackBerry 10 handsets and are not running final BlackBerry 10 software. Instead, they are running modified PlayBook OS and are meant ...
Research In Motion today said that it plans to distribute a limited number of BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices to developers who attend an upcoming developer event to be held by RIM. RIM insists that the devices are not final BlackBerry 10 handsets and are not running final BlackBerry 10 software. Instead, they are running modified PlayBook OS and are meant ...
Mobile device manufacturers RIM and Samsung are both facing a new lawsuit from Varia Holdings over their implementation of emoticons on their mobile devices. The lawsuit claims that the quick-access emoticon shortcut menus employed by both companies are in violation of Varia's patents.
According to Barrons, Research In Motion's stock is up today for no obvious reason. There is chatter, however, that Samsung is looking to possibly make a $1.5 billion investment in the company, and that it is considering making its own BB10 OS devices once RIM brings the platform to market later this year.
According to TechRadar, Research In Motion has said that its new BB10 operating system will be heading to the BlackBerry PlayBook. Our interpretation of the quote is a bit less certain, though.
T-Mobile USA has begun delivering BlackBerry OS 7.1 to the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Torch 9810. The system update adds a significant number of new features, including Wi-Fi calling, mobile hotspot and USB tethering, the Commercial Mobile Alert System, BlackBerry Music, Bing Search, and BlackBerry Device Analyzer. The updates are free and can be installed ...
Research In Motion today announced that is has acquired a company called Paratek Microwave. Paratek creates adaptive tuning technologies for multi-band handsets. RIM says the Pareatek team has been added to its own radio engineering team, where it will help RIM refine the radios in its phones. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Opera Software today announced that Opera Mini 6.5 is now available to BlackBerry smartphones via BlackBerry App World. It includes most of the features available in Opera Mini on other platforms, such as social network integration, speed dial, data compression, and full HTML site support. The application is free, and can also be downloaded directly ...
The long-awaited version 2.0 update for the BlackBerry PlayBook OS will finally be released on 21 February according to reports. The news comes from n4bb.com sources who confirmed the release date for the PlayBook 2.0 OS. When the BlackBerry PlayBook was launched last April there were a number of short-comings with the tablet which RIM promised ...
Alleged pictures of the new BlackBerry 10 OS have been leaked. BlackBerry's new operating system won't be released until sometime later this year and when it launches, only one phone – the BlackBerry London – is expected to launch with it. The new photos from Crackberry give a better view of BB10, and were reportedly snatched from ...
Popular travel search site KAYAK has announced that it is dropping support for the BlackBerry version of its mobile app. Citing the fact that the current BlackBerry platform is "not working out to be a great channel for consumer mobile applications," Kayak says that the cost to maintain and support the BlackBerry version of its app is just too great ...