In an interview with Bloomberg, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has said that the BlackBerry 10 platform, now in its final stages of testing, may end up being licensed. Heins said that the company was looking at how it could be used by other companies, comparing it to BlackBerry 10's underlying QNX...
"QNX is already licensed across the automotive sector — we could do that with BB10 if we chose to." Thorsten Heins
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered five new samples of the ZeuS-in-the-Mobile (ZitMo) malware package, targeting Android and BlackBerry devices. Like the Zeus trojan for Windows, ZitMo targets users' online banking information...
When Foursquare introduced the "all-new" version of its app in June, it added some new features, but also took away the ability to switch between nearby check-ins and all activity. Now, based on user feedback, the company has decided to bring back the functionality with a new update, making it easier to find out what friends who are close by are up to. The update is live for both iPhone and B...
Research In Motion (RIM) has been spared a punishing $147.2 million damages payment after the verdict in a lengthy patent battle with Mformation was overturned last night. According to a company statement, the judge in the case — which is being heard in the US District Court for the Northern District of California — "has granted RIM's motion for judgment as a matter of law, concluding that the evidence did not support the Jury's finding of patent infringement."
Mformation first filed suit against RIM back in 2008, accusing the manufacturer of infringing on patents related to mobile device management in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server product. Last month, RIM was ordered to pay $8 for every device that connects to an Enterprise Server, a penalty that it could ill afford in its current straitened circumstances, and the new ruling...
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Some 68.1 percent of smartphones shipped in the second quarter of this year were powered by Android, a jump of more than 15 percent since last quarter, according to new figures released by research firm IDC. The increase has been driven primarily by Korean manufacturer Samsung, which shipped more...
Canadian carrier Telus has announced that it will be one of the first carriers to sell the new LTE-capable BlackBerry PlayBook. MobileSyrup reports that Telus will launch the PlayBook next week (probably on August 9th, the date RIM gave us)...
India is one of the few markets where RIM's BlackBerry brand continues to grow, but the company has been grappling with the Indian government for some time in regards to the country's requests for access to RIM's servers so it can examine user communications. RIM set up a...
