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, …

Experts are now saying that the Apple iPhone now has enterprise security that matches the BlackBerry platform in another blow to Research In Motion that continues to slide in market share.
A new report from TechRepublic reveals through interviews with experts and a data from a Trend Micro study that impression about iPhone security has now changed.
The report cites as a point in its case comments from BDO LLP IT Director John Turner who did not think twice about saying that the iPhone can now …

Apple and Google will have such a dominant year in 2012 in the smartphone market that the market share of the two companies combined will leave almost nothing to rivals.
The prediction comes from Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at the financial research company Global Equities Research.
In an interview with eWeek, the analyst said that Apple and Google will be so prevailing in the smartphone market that there will not be a third place left in market share standings this year.
“There will not be any …

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, 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