Research in Motion (RIM) has unwrapped a January 30 launch date for BlackBerry 10, its upcoming next-generation mobile operating system.
The Canadian smartphone maker confirmed it will reveal the names and availability dates of the first Blackberry 10 smartphones during next year’s event. Rumors say RIM will launch one full touchscreen device and a smartphone with its trademarked QWERTY keyboard.
RIM is doing a good job of keeping mum on the hardware specs, but knowing all phones will run on …

Research In Motion (RIM) said on Thursday, November 8, it has been awarded a security clearance from the U.S. government for the launch of its BlackBerry 10 devices in the first quarter of next year.
RIM said its BlackBerry 10 operating system obtained FIPS 140-2 certification, which validates the deployment of the devices and its accompanying enterprise management platform shortly after these are launched.
The Canadian smartphone maker said the decision is a first for any BlackBerry product to …

Research in Motion (RIM) is now running a series of tests for its upcoming BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system among telecoms carrier.
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said the Canadian smartphone maker has sent its mobile OS to around 50 carriers worldwide to run tests and wait for favorable receptions and positive feedbacks. The move means the company is ready for a BlackBerry 10 general release early next year.
“We made this commitment during our recent results conference call and we have …

Research In Motion, Blackberry’s manufacturer is now reaching out to app developers as a means of promoting their to-be-released Blackberry 10, and is kicking off with a development center in Slough, Berkshire, UK, that opened in Monday.
At the company’s showcase for developers, known as the BlackBerry Jam, held last month, RIM insured the opening of Blackberry Tech Centers worldwide, in an effort to help developers who wish to produce apps or make existing apps compatible with Blackberry …

In its latest effort to market its struggling platform, Research In Motion says that its loyal BlackBerry users are “black sheep by choice”.
In a post on the BlackBerry blog, the company’s Donny Halliwell essentially told loyal users of the company’s smartphones to be proud, patiently wait and that the best is yet to come with the expected launch of BlackBerry 10 and new smartphones based on the platform.

Saying the transition to BlackBerry 10 is “challenging, Halliwell says that …

The BlackBerry 10 Aristo (Aristo” is Greek for “the best”) I think will be the ultimate of the BlackBerry 10’s to come. Let’s go check out the specs:
Harware:
The processor is a Qualcomm APQ8064 Krait Quad Core 1.5GHz. The APQ8064 was announced in July 2012 at Uplink, Qualcomm’s developer conference by Raj Talluri who was previously employed at Texas Instrument and was closely involved with the developments of the OMAP 3 and OMAP 4 chipsets. Classifying the APQ8064 in the S4 Pro …

During the BlackBerry Jam Americas conference in San Jose this week, Research In Motion (RIM) showcased the power of the BlackBerry 10 platform and demonstrated the key differentiators that developers are leveraging to create apps that engage and delight customers.
Visually stunning BlackBerry 10 applications from Cisco, Foursquare, Sencha, Gameloft, Halfbrick Studios, Madfinger Games and Funkoi were revealed, demonstrating applications that are feature rich and integrated with core functions …

Research in Motion (RIM) has shed light on an updated build of its Blackberry 10 (BB10) mobile operating system at the Blackberry Jam conference in San Jose.
RIM said that the release, which is being unveiled alongside the “dev alpha b” test hardware unit at the 2012 Blackberry Jam developer conference, gives the most comprehensive look yet at the BB10 interface.
Among the features that will be showcased in BB10 is an interface concept the company calls BlackBerry Flow.

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Research In Motion (RIM) the maker of BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, today announced it is launching the BlackBerry Academic Program in Nigeria. The Yaba College of Technology, a leading Nigerian tertiary institution based in Lagos, is introducing the free-to-use BlackBerry resources to their students, joining a worldwide program that includes nearly 700 institutions in more than 113 countries.
Robert Bose, Regional Managing Director for Africa and the Middle East said, …

Research in Motion seems that eagerly awaits the release of BlackBerry 10 OS to resume its deserved position on the smartphone market.
Expectations are high, especially since their first terminals with this OS have already been confirmed by Qualcomm as their new models which come with Snapdragon S4 Pro quad core processors.
And now we also learn that BB OS 10 could have a huge portfolio of onset applications.

The partnership with developers and the large number of applications are two key …