Just days after launching revamped versions of BlackBerry Torch and Bold models which optimize the BlackBerry OS 7, reports are filtering in which suggest that RIM will launch its first QNX-based smartphone in Q1, 2012.
A lawmaker called on Tuesday for BlackBerry's instant messaging service to be suspended after rioters used it to mobilize in London and other British cities.
Social media services BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and others have become weapons for rioters in London. They are using the connectivity tools to organize and stay one step ahead of police.
Smartphone makre RIM has said it will help police investigate BlackBerry users who have used its messenger service to aid the London riots.
Much of the current rioting and looting in London for the past three days has been coordinated not just via Facebook and Twitter, but also via BlackBerry smartphones that use encrypted communications, according to British authorities.
Following three nights of rioting and looting in London, some police, politicians and media organizations singled out Blackberry's messaging network as being a useful aid for UK troublemakers.
While the politicians and police believe Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger has triggered the fire of riot in London, but thousands of these social network users have made a clean-up effort.
Jefferies believes reports that Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) will launch a QNX phone in first quarter of calendar 2012 are correct. However, the brokerage also believes it will be a single-core, non-native email, non-push, non-data compressed BlackBerry.
The riots, currently, have continued for the third consecutive day and have spread to other parts of UK.
Rioting and looting spread across London on Monday as hooded youths set buildings and cars ablaze, smashed shop windows and hurled bottles and stones at police in a third night of violence in Britain's worst unrest in decades.
RIM may be releasing its first QNX-based BlackBerry, the Colt, in the first quarter, according to a report by Boy Genius Report.
Civil unrest is growing in London as fresh riots, lootings and raging fires continue on Monday following Saturday's incident in gritty Tottenham. Hundreds of teens are looting shops, lighting fire to business places and continue to clash with police in at six neighborhoods, according to reports.
The American people just love their cell phones. According to a new survey from Telenav, a mobile applications company, one-third of Americans would rather do without sex than without their cell phone.
Get set for some Android wrestling as WIMM Labs, a new Silicon Valley-based independent startup, gears up to market wrist computing devices.
Hewlett Packard reduced the price of its TouchPad tablet computer again, highlighting the uphill battle manufacturers will need to overcome as they go head-to-head against the dominant Apple iPad line of tablets.
Mobile ad network Jumptap has put out a report with a map reflecting the geographical mobile makeup in the United States.
Shares of Research in Motion are at a yearly low. But they could recover with new Blackberry products. Or attract a bidder.
A recent survey from TeleNav takes a look at the dedication of smartphone users, the iPhone in particular.
Research in Motion's release of five new BlackBerry smartphones won't do much to help the struggling company, says one analyst.
GM Chevrolet Volt's key competitor in the electric-vehicle market Nissan has launched an app for Android and BlackBerry phones for its all-electric car Leaf.
Today, Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to launch five new smartphones, which may give the iPhone and Android a run for their money.
Jefferies believes Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Enterprise Server/BlackBerry Internet Service (BES/BIS) infrastructure could be worth $5 billion to $10 billion in a sale. But who will buy it?
