Nokia revealed on Wednesday it had filed lawsuits in Europe and America against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) for breaching its patent contracts.
On Monday, the Finnish phone maker sued RIM in a California court to impose a Swedish arbitration tribunal’s ruling that RIM cannot sell products with wireless local area network (WLAN) technology without a royalty agreement with Nokia.
“We have now filed actions in the US, UK and Canada with the aim of ending RIM’s breach of …

BlackBerry 10 will immediately ship in February after its launch in January, reveals Canada-based BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM).
On Tuesday, November 13, RIM announced it will launch BlackBerry 10 on January 30 of next year. Three days after, it now divulges to customers that the latest version of its smartphone operating system will arrive shortly after the event.
“We want to do it as quickly as possible,” says Kristian Tear, chief operations officer at RIM, in an …

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) 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 …

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, …

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 …