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Later this week, Research in Motion will present its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report to an eager Wall Street crowd. Anyone who knows anything about RIM is anticipating some pretty abysmal results, as market share for RIM’s Blackberry OS continues to decline at the hands of Android and iOS. RIM’s Blackberry 7 phones are fairly dated…
While most BlackBerry users are enjoying BlackBerry OS 7, some are still stuck to the old version of the operating system, those with the Torch 9800 being one of them. Now Canada’s Virgin Mobile and Bell (along with RIM) released firmware updates to make the experience at least a bit better for owners of the…
While we’re not going to see BlackBerry 10 smartphones until the Fall, developers attending the BlackBerry World conference will get a sneak peak at what the next generation platform will look like on phones. Research In Motion will be seeding out “prototype” devices to app makers who attend the show. On its developer blog, RIM…
BlackBerry users can’t happy with the way RIM is managed these days. From the once shining star, its market share is now rapidly declining, facing competition from many bigger companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft. However, there are still die hard BlackBerry fans out there, folks who don’t care about big touchscreens and would rather…
For all the struggles that Research In Motion has been going through over the last few years, its BlackBerry still held the top spot in its home market of Canada. That comfort is now gone, as the latest data suggests the iPhone outsold BlackBerry in RIM’s home turf last year. Data from IDC and Bloomberg…
Evernote for BlackBerry is still lagging behind its iOS and Android counterparts, though it’s getting better with a time. The popular note-taking service updated its mobile app for RIM-made devices, addressing many of the users’ concerns. Here’s what’s new: Better support for attachments – now it’s easier to add new attachments to an existing note…
In a post on RIM’s Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog, Adrian Stone, the Director of the BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team (BBSIRT), explained RIM’s stance on Playbook jailbreaking. In a nutshell, he discouraged the practice and asked BlackBerry device owners not to install any jailbreak tools. Stone explains that when a jailbreak is reported, RIM…
Well, Apple can add another notch to its belt, as the Cupertino-based manufacturer has become the most popular mobile platform among application developers, according to a survey. This survey asked developers if they were interested in creating certain applications on various devices. The survey highlighted a bit of a dip when it came to developers…
If you’re a hardcore console or PC gamer, then the name Turtle Beach should be known to you quite well. My first experience with the company was back in the 90s when I purchased one of their sound cards for my PC. The company has matured from just offering sound cards to directly influencing your…
Good news for those of you with the BlackBerry Playbook. Thanks to the better support for Android apps introduced in the Playbook OS 2.0, now you can install the single most popular third-party browser for Android smartphones – Dolphin Browser. As far as I can tell, this isn’t the latest version of the application as…