After a recent report from Reuters which said that the BlackBerry music streaming service from RIM will likely be launched by September 5, details about the service has just recently been leaked by  CrackBerry.
According to CrackBerry’s report, the music streaming service will cost subscribers $5 per month with the ability to cache or buffer 50 songs at a time to a BlackBerry phone.
There is, however, a free trial offered by BlackBerry to anyone who will be downloading the BlackBerry music …

 
Research In Motion (RIM), the Canada-based maker of BlackBerry mobile devices, is on the works to urge major music labels and firms for its plan to create a new cloud-based digital music service, rumors circles citing sources with knowledge on the matter said.
According to the sources, the limited digital music service will allow 45 million users of the company’s instant messaging app BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to share music with contacts.
However, the program would only allow users …

Research In Motion is close to launching the BlackBerry music streaming service, a report from Reuters reveals.

RIM is reported to be in negotiations with major music labesl and will likely launch a BlackBerry music streaming service on Sept 5. Image: isriya / Flickr (CC)

According to the report, four unnamed sources “familiar with the plans” has told the news agency that RIM is expected to launch its own BlackBerry music service on September 5 during Labor Day celebrations in the …

Verizon has just started offering the Research in Motion BlackBerry Bold 9930 for $249.99 with a 2-year contract.

The BlackBerry Bold 9930 is now available through Verizon for $250 with a 2-year contract.

For those who want the BlackBerry Bold 9930 with no contract, Verizon offers it for $509.99.
The BlackBerry Bold 9930 comes with free shipping and free activation but it does require a subscriber to get a data package.
Verizon offers standard data packages of $30 per month for 2GB bandwidth …

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook Wi-Fi only version (Credit: Sprint / RIM)

Sprint has ditched plans of bringing RIM’s BlackBerry 4G PlayBook tablet to its network this summer.
Soon after its announcement to offer the BlackBerry PlayBook Wi-Fi only version with a September 8 (or until supplies last) expiry, Sprint decided to pull the plug for the 4G-enabled version.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report the sudden change in Sprint’s plans, “We apologize for any inconvenience but …

London Police is scanning the BlackBerry messages to investigate weather or not the Blackberry service was used by the rioters to plan disturbance in the city, reports Bloomberg.
The Research in Motion Ltd (RIM), maker of BlackBerry smartphone, has announced to fully assist London police in its investigations. Earlier, the London Police claimed that rioters used the messaging service of Blackberry to plan violence and looting in London.
London Police is also investigating the role of messages …

After Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) revealed on Monday that it is cooperating with British authorities investigating the riots in London, hacker group TeaMpoisoN has apparently attacked and infiltrated the RIM-operated Inside BlackBerry blog.

Image: shahid1618 / Flickr (CC)

On Monday, RIM released the following statement:
“We feel for those impacted by this weekend’s riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can. As in all markets around …

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In what Research In Motion describes as its biggest global launch ever, the smartphone maker announced on Wednesday its plans to launch 5
new BlackBerry smartphones running on the company’s all-new BlackBerry 7 mobile operating system.
The Ontario, Canada-based company says that it will launch two new BlackBerry Bold models and three new BlackBerry Torch models “in conjunction with …

Google last week lost the bidding war it started for over 6,000 Nortel patents in April, suffering a big blow from a consortium led by mobile platform rival Apple at the price of $4.5 billion.
A $900 million stalking horse bid from Google initiated Nortel’s bankruptcy auction for its wireless technology patents.
The Apple-led consortium includes Microsoft, Research in Motion (RIM), Sony, Ericsson and EMC.
Winning the patent bid could have bolstered Google’s patent portfolio, currently …

BlackBerry has updated the PlayBook Tablet OS to address security issues raised by Adobe, reports PCWorld. The security issues were related to Adobe Flash Player’s cross-site scripting vulnerability.
According to Research In Motion (RIM), the new version will be made available to all the PlayBook tablet users soon and will have updated Flash Player to address the security issues that were raised. Users will get an update notification automatically on their devices. They can also check for …