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

Google’s Android operating system (OS) has proven once again sheer dominance in the smartphone market as its lead extended away from Apple’s iOS, according to the latest report from IT research company Gartner. Customers are apparently intent to hold off upgrades until the iPhone 5 comes out.
According to Gartner’s new “Market Share: Mobile Devices, Worldwide, 2Q12” report, Android OS grabbed 64.1 percent of smartphone sales worldwide in the second quarter this year, which is 20 …

Apple’s iOS platform has been crowned as the most lucrative among mobile platforms, besting Android and others, according to a new report from Opera Software.
According to the first edition of the State of Mobile Advertising report from the company which makes the Opera web browser, the iOS platform delivered more than the Android platform in the key metric called eCPM.
ECPM is the acronym for effective cost per mille which measures the revenue an ad publisher earns per thousand ad …

Research In Motion (RIM) has already unveiled its new mobile operating system called BBX.
According to the company, BBX OS uses the best of both BlackBerry and QNX, but will come to smartphones and tablets, and will feature backward compatibility for BlackBerry OS 6 and OS 7 mobile apps.
BBX will also have support for Android apps using BlackBerry Runtime for Android; Adobe Air and Flash apps; and HTML 5.
The BBX platform has certification for Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX …

Google’s Android OS continues its meteoric rise in the U.S. smartphone platform market to widen the gap over mobile operating system iOS from Apple, research firm comScore’s reports.

The Top 5 Smartphone Platforms. (Image: comScore)

The latest comScore report shows that Android OS topped the list at 43.7 percent of the U.S. smartphone platform market for the three-month period ending on August 2011, which means it added 5.6 percent to the previous 38.1 percent in May.
Apple iOS, which …

Android OS still leads the smartphone platform market but now so dominant that it nearly doubled the share of second-place iOS, the latest Millennial Media Mobile Mix reported on Friday.
According to the study from research firm Millennial Media, Google’s Android led, by a large margin, the smartphone platform market with a 52 percent share, followed by 28 percent from Apple’s iOS.
BlackBerry OS placed third at 13 percent market share and continues to lose its slice of the pie to Android …

According to a recent study from research firm Nielsen, Android-powered smartphone users are not more data hungry than their counterparts using different mobile operating systems.
The study conducted in just this April also revealed that Android has widened its lead in U.S. market share over Apple’s iOS, Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry OS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, HP’s WebOS, previously Nokia’s Symbian, and Palm OS.
The study reveals the following market …