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India cancels threat of ban on BlackBerry with conditions

Published on: 3rd November, 2010

The federal home ministry of India recently said that his country would avoid a service ban for BlackBerry phones after Research in Motion had developed a provisory arrangement to make possible for the Indian government to spy on messages. The lift of the threat arrived after RIM promised that India could intercept conversations on BlackBerry [...]

Apple is the world’s fourth largest phone maker

Published on: 1st November, 2010

According to IDC, Apple is now the fourth largest manufacturer of any kind of phones. Doubling to 14.1 million iPhones has pushed it to 4.1 percent of the whole market, ahead of the BlackBerry of Research in Motion and other long established producers of phones like Sony Ericsson and Motorola, both of them being now [...]

iPhone jumps over BlackBerry for second place in smartphones

Published on: 31st October, 2010

The 14.1 million iPhones sold by Apple made it jump over the BlackBerry’s market share, as Strategy Analytics say. The total of 77.1 million smartphones shipped in the summer helped the iPhone to leap to 18.3 percent of the whole market and pushed Research in Motion down to third place, with 12.1 million phones and [...]

BlackBerry application launched on Rhapsody, iOS application updated

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

An application for the BlackBerry operating system platform has been launched on the online music streaming Rhapsody service. The application is in beta version and can be downloaded by users having BlackBerry handsets equipped with at least the version 5.0 of their operating system. Curve users are able to control the operation of the application [...]

Developers not really motivated to write game applications for BlackBerry

Published on: 21st October, 2010

As an examination of the application community reveals, BlackBerry handsets are not even registering for developers of game applications. PopCap developer, author of Plants vs. Zombies, said that the BlackBerry was not supported in its present form as it was not suitable when compared to iOS and Android. The development environment has been difficult to [...]

BlackBerry deadline pushed to 31st of January by the Indian government

Published on: 16th October, 2010

According to the Economic Times newspaper, the Indian government has prolonged the October 31st ban deadline of Research in Motion to January 31st. the arrangement has offered RIM as additional 90-day long interval of time to give the security forces of India suitable access to its Enterprise data services. Research in Motion has already made [...]

Users in UAE not switching from BlackBerry despite suspension of services

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Users of BlackBerry in the United Arab Emirates are not willing to give up their phones, even if facing the suspension of services in case the government and Research in Motion do not reach an agreement. A recent report says that nearly all of the about 500,000 subscribers are confident a deal will be concluded. [...]

T-Mobile believes BlackBerry share will fall through 2014

Published on: 12th October, 2010

T-Mobile seems to have only little faith in Research in Motion to keep its position in the market, because the BlackBerry OS is believed to have a steady decline into 2014. The carrier also believes that Apple will lose market share next year, as Android consolidates its leadership position, according to a document presented at [...]

Kobo preloaded on BlackBerry PlayBook, rival of iBook

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Kobo has said recently that a version of its eReader would be preloaded on the BlackBerry PlayBook. The deal was possible because Kobo had an international e-bookstore and was willing to customize it for specific countries. The bookseller said that a WebKit browser was the ideal fit because the same engine would be used by [...]

RIM, talking about BlackBerry’s application count, needs only super applications

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Alan Panezic, vice president of Research in Motion’s product platform management, defended the 10,000 low application count of BlackBerry’s App World and stroke back at Google and Apple. He strongly rejected the idea that having 50,000 or more application in the store was essential and also reiterated the notion of “super applications”, which RIM valued [...]

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