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App acts as personal tour guide; compatible with all smartphones

A news leak reveals the future roadmap for T-Mobile's 2011 device list that includes plenty of Android and Blackberry devices. No iPhone or Window Phones were listed suggesting they were ignored for the 2011 lineup. The exclusion of iPhone may come as no surprise after T-Mobile said it will not offer iPhones in the immediate future due to acquisition agreements following the announced merger with AT&T. Windows Phone fans can hope that T-Mobile will follow through with offering the Nokia ...

Despite the recall of 1,000 Research in Motion's (RIM) PlayBook tablets due to an OS glitch, the popularity of the PlayBook remains unaffected -it has been reported that the BlackBerry maker has recovered by selling 250,000 devices in month of April. The estimates were noted from RBC analyst Mick Abramsky collected information from 180 Best Buy locations with results showing 84% of 64BG RIM PlayBooks sold were in late April.

RBC Capital Markets said its checks showed that sales of Research In Motion's PlayBook remain steady since its launch on April 19.

The BlackBerry Playbook which was announced in the end of last year has been given a launch date of June 16 and is available for pre-order, reports said.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Arotech, SodaStream International, Dell, Gulf Resources, Golar LNG, GT Solar International, and Research In Motion. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Coldwater Creek, Staples, Celldex Therapeutics, Orchid Cellmark, and ARM Holdings.

Research in Motion issued a partial recall on its much-hyped Playbook tablet, but unfortunately this disappointing news isn't an isolated misstep.

On Monday Research in Motion announced a recall on its just recently minted and extremely hyped-up Playbook tablet computer. Unfortunately this disappointing news doesn't come in a vacuum for the company, but instead follows a series of misstep

Irish band U2 performed three concerts in Mexico City´s Azteca stadium as part of their 360 Tour on May 11, 14, and 15 as lead singer Bono met with President Felipe Calderon to discuss the nation's growing drug-related violence and poverty.

Approximately 1,000 PlayBook tablets were recalled by RIM as the company's stock plunges to its lowest total in more than two years.

In a tightly contested tablet landscape RIM started its journey by recalling 1,000 units of its flagship PlayBook tablet due to a faulty OS.

China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom) and Research in Motion (RIM), the perpetual developer of the BlackBerry smartphone, has announced plans to start BlackBerry services for small commercial organizations in China, a report in RIM website said. The companies will be launching the Blackberry Bold 9650 smartphone

Audi of America announced Tuesday that it will release a new Audi Roadside App for iPhone users, as well as for Android and some BlackBerry devices.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: GSI Technology, iGo, TTM Technologies, EMCORE, Powerwave Technologies, Brightpoint, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Tesco, Vitesse Semiconductor, and The Knot.

Apple may join the ranks of RIM and some other competitors as it mulls offering software upgrades over the air, doing away with the requirement of needing a PC to enjoy the latest improvements.

Research In Motion's decision to open its highly secure Enterprise servers to Apple and Android smartphones is a once-unthinkable concession that could save the BlackBerry maker's skin.

New research says Apple's app store is going to be king of the app market mountain for quite some time.

Anadigics Inc forecast a challenging year ahead and cut 10 percent jobs as its largest customer Research In Motion shifted orders to the chipset maker's rivals, sending its shares down 10 percent to an eight-month low.

The company says the only reason it may have brought a product late to the market was because of quality.

Research In Motion will use Microsoft's Bing search engine and maps as default options on its new BlackBerry devices, a victory for the software giant as it eyes the booming mobile phone market.

Research In Motion said on Tuesday it would give out more than 6,000 PlayBook tablet computers to participants at its BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida.