Research in Motion (RIM) has announced that its next-generation Blackberry 10 operating system (OS) will feature support for HD screens.
The BlackBerry maker posted on its developer blog that full touch BlackBerry 10 smartphones will release with 720p (1280×720 pixels) HD resolution displays with 16:9 Aspect Ratio, and rumor circles believe it will come with a 4.3-inch touchscreen.
“As everyone knows by now, the screen resolution on the Dev Alpha device is 1280×768. Let’s …

Research in Motion (RIM) is all but set to license its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system (OS).
Bloomberg accounts  RIM CEO Thorsten Heins in saying the company is finishing the test phase of BlackBerry 10 OS and is looking at licensing it to other smartphone makers.
“QNX is already licensed across the automotive sector –we could do that with BB10 if we chose to,” Heins told Bloomberg. “The platform can be

Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, intends to put the cloud services company NewBay and other newly-obtained smaller properties on sale in an effort to reverse the overall decline of the company.
The company acquired NewBay, a social-networking, image, and video program provider for PCs and smartphones in October last year for 100 million dollars.
The Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone-maker is one of the first in its industry, but found itself unable to compete against other, more …

International Business Machines (IBM) is interested in the enterprise services unit of Research In Motion (RIM), a new report suggests.
Citing unnamed sources “familiar with the situation”, Bloomberg says that IBM has approached RIM “about possibly acquiring” the struggling Canadian smartphones and tablets maker’s enterprise services

When Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry 10 (BB10) launches and if it fails, Samsung may buy the company to have a backup OS in its pocket, an analyst believes.
The comments come from a report headed by analyst Peter Misek from investment firm Jefferies. The report reveals that the firm thinks RIM is ready to talk licensing with Samsung for

Sprint is doubtful that struggling Canadian smartphones and tablets maker Research In Motion (RIM) will ever go back to the same height it achieved two years ago.
Furthermore, the US mobile carrier through a spokesperson said that the company is now trying to figure out where RIM devices will fit in the future Sprint

BlackBerry has reached 3 billion downloads in its App World store. This is a major step forward for the company in the midst of the latest anguishes it is facing.
The figure may be ridiculed by the Play Store of Android and App Store of iOS as each has reached 20-million and more downloads at a much earlier time, but Research In Motion (RIM) has been going through a tough time lately, and as such the company considers reaching the 3 billion mark a breakthrough.

BlackBerry reaches a milestone …

Research In Motion (RIM) Thursday last week said that its before-year-end release of BlackBerry 10 OS will hold off until the first quarter of next year.
The Canadian smartphone maker admitted that getting BB10, the company’s ultimate attempt at keeping BlackBerry devices significant in the consumer market, prepared for prime time is “more time consuming than anticipated.” RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said he will not risk the new BlackBerry operating system with an substandard product. Even …

In a statement that defies the gloomy disposition of tech industry observers with struggling Research In Motion (RIM), CEO Thorsten Heins said on Tuesday that “there’s nothing wrong” with the BlackBerry-maker.
In an interview with the Metro Morning radio show of the Candian Broadcasting Corp, Heins – who replaced former co-CEOs and co-founders Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis in January – is quoted as saying: “There’s nothing wrong with the company as it exists right …

Research In Motion has confirmed that the first device powered by the BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system to be released by the Canadian company will only have a touchscreen keyboard.
The news of the omission of a physical keyboard for the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone comes via a statement from a RIM spokesperson as reported by The Associated Press.
Nonetheless, the spokesperson told the news organization that RIM will also release smartphones powered by BlackBerry 10 that have physical …