Telefónica, O2 in the UK, has declared its partnership with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) to improve its billing services.
With O2’s new Direct to Bill system, purchases on digital goods such as an Android application, a Windows or Blackberry smartphone, or even a Farmville shed on Facebook, will all reflect as additional costs to the O2 phone bills, providing more convenience to subscribers.
“Enabling direct-to-bill with Telefónica Digital is yet another …

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 …

Just when you thought RIM could not sink any lower, it has managed to do worse in the first quarter of this year with announcements that drive observers to note that RIM is surely on a doomed path.
The first of these announcements is a $518-million loss in the first quarter of the year, the Canadian handsets and tablet maker’s first net loss in eight years.
RIM has indicated in its earnings performance report that despite a revenue of $2.8 billion, it lost $0.37 per share. This loss is …

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 …

RIM has confirmed that the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 beta will be available to developers by the end of this month which is today.
The news comes from Michael Clewly who said in a Twitter post that RIM plans to release the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 beta by “end of May”.
He said in a reply to a tweet: “yes . I’ve said end of may”.
@itsdsaab yes .I’ve said end of may.
— Michael Clewley (@MichaelClewley) May 29, 2012

Furthermore, the product manager for the RIM …

RIM can’t seem to catch a break as another high-level executive from the smartphones manufacturer has left.
According to a report from Bloomberg, Patrick Spence, RIM executive vice president of global sales, has resigned from the company.
Spence will be taking a new leadership role in another industry, a spokesperson from RIM has said. However, no details as to what company or what industry Spence is going to have been revealed.
The resignation of the RIM executive vice president follows a …

New Blackberry Music Gateway is NFC-based, making it easier to connect your stereo system and phone for music streaming (Image: via pocket-lint.com)

Research In Motion presented a new product version during the BlackBerry World 2012: the BlackBerry Music Gateway, which is now set with near-field communications standards or NFC.
Using Music Gateway, you can share music with a stereo system at home or even in your car. It looks like a tiny puck that you can connect to a stereo using 3.5 mm …

After reporting a record first quarter performance, Samsung has now also taken the title of being the world’s biggest vendor of mobile phones, two research firms have confirmed.
This achievement marks the end of Nokia’s reign as the world’s biggest mobile phone vendor, a title it managed to hold on to for almost one and a half decades or 14 years to be exact.
The data comes from IHS iSuppli and Strategy Analytics.
According to iSuppli’s data, Samsung has shipped 92 million mobile phones …

Amidst all the troubles Research In Motion (RIM) is having at the moment, new information reveals that the Canadian smartphones and tablet maker is losing more and more senior-level executives.
In a sign that RIM is still deeply in trouble, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that two senior executives are leaving the company.
According to the Journal, RIM VP for BlackBerry Messenger platform Alistair Mitchell  has left the company.
Asked if the news was true, the Journal quotes a RIM …