BlackBerry 10 is still months and months away, but the first devices are nearly finished and the time to build apps is now — and to that end, RIM has just informed developers that the new operating system will target two screen resolutions. We'd previously heard that RIM is building just two...
Three resolutions in all, but RIM's standardizing on two of them for now
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...
In a meeting Tuesday in New York, Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins along with other executives discussed —and demoed — the future of the company.
It was a candid opportunity to hear Heins' plans for the future, discuss the challenges of the last few years, and see a first hand demo of the next iteration of BlackBerry phones. While the executives certainly have plenty of worries to...
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 software, which is used by multiple industries. "QNX is already licensed across the automotive sector — we could do that with BB10 if we chose to," he says. "The platform can be licensed." This statement is perhaps the most definitive of the many he's given in the past few months, especially because he apparently ties it to the ongoing testing and dispenses with claims that the team needs to "prove" BlackBerry 10.
Heins also says that the struggling company hopes to expand beyond its current mobile focus to include automatic machine-to-machine...
"QNX is already licensed across the automotive sector — we could do that with BB10 if we chose to." Thorsten Heins
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