Blackberry

Over the past few months, media attention has shifted from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM). The assumption was that RIM could make a comeback and turn BlackBerry 10 into the next great mobile OS. With RIM shares now trading down well over 5 percent on Wednesday, it seems...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is giving developers 36 hours to port their existing apps to BlackBerry 10. Those who do could be paid $100 for their efforts. The company has set aside a total of $500,000 for developers who deliver the goods, which could lead to an influx of 5,000 new apps. "...

With only a couple weeks to go before BlackBerry 10 arrives, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is doing everything it can to ensure that consumers are excited for its arrival. Unfortunately, a BlackBerry outage should not have been one of them. According to Reuters, BlackBerry users have been...

Samsung sold more than 97 million mobile phones in the third quarter, besting Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone by more than 74 million units. According to Gartner (NYSE: IT), nearly 428 million mobile phones were sold during the quarter. Approximately 23.5 million of those phones were manufactured by...

Following months of depressing developments, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) has something to brag about. Shares were up more than eight percent after the company announced that it had delivered BlackBerry 10 handsets to more than 50 carriers worldwide. The company said that this is a key step...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is only days away from releasing Windows Phone 8, the mobile counterpart to its long-awaited PC and tablet operating system. Advertisements are beginning to leak online, but the general public has yet to be exposed to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Despite this, it seems as...

As the month and the calendar quarter winds down this week, highlights on the earnings front include reports from Nike (NYSE: NKE), Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Carnival (NYSE: CCL). Analysts by and large anticipate per-share...

In a slightly shocking move, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has decided to outfit its new line of Kindle Fire products with Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing search engine. Although Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was previously thought to be the frontrunner in this scenario, Amazon has told several news outlets that...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) shocked the world earlier in 2012 when it unveiled the "Surface" tablet. The 10-inch tablet will come loaded with Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system and is likely to compete directly with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. While it is yet unknown how much Microsoft will...

Information technology giant International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is apparently interested in buying wireless solutions designer and manufacturer Research In Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) enterprise services unit. According to Bloomberg, Research In Motion's enterprise services unit operates a...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is celebrating Thursday after announcing that the judge presiding over its patent infringement trial with Mformation Technologies has overturned the jury's verdict, saving RIM more than $100 million. In July, the BlackBerry maker was ordered to pay $147.2 million...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) may not have any major smartphone upgrades planned for 2012, but the firm is determined to continually update its first and only tablet: the PlayBook. The last update came in the form of a software upgrade released in February 2012. Thursday, Research In Motion...

From the iPhone 4S and the Galaxy S III to various BlackBerry devices, an estimated 67,000 phones are expected to be lost or stolen during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. This assessment comes from Venafi, a key and certificate management solutions firm, which based its figure on the...