Research in Motion is starting to show off its BlackBerry 10 operating system this week, and the company is actively courting developers in hopes of bringing some high quality apps to the new operating system. But what if you already have a phone that’s running the recently released BlackBerry 7 operating system? Will you be […]
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RIM unveils BlackBerry 10 platform for smartphones and tablets
Research in Motion is launching its BlackBerry 10 software platform for smartphones today, and the company is providing developers with a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha smartphone to kick the new operating system’s tires and develop apps for the new platform. Eventually RIM plans to offer the same operating system for both phones and tablets — […]
So long BBX, future RIM phones and tablets to run “BlackBerry 10”
Research in Motion announced recently that its next-generation BlackBerry phones and tablets would run the same software, and it would be called BBX rather than BlackBerry OS or BlackBerry Tablet OS. There’s just one problem: A company called Basis International owns the trademarket for BBX. This week Basis announced that it’s won a temporary restraining […]
RIM’s BlackBerry Mobile Fusion lets IT managers support iOS, Android, BlackBerry
Research in Motion is starting to look beyond the BlackBerry smartphone. For years the company’s mobile phones had dominated corporate settings, but Android and iOS devices have been chipping away at BlackBerry’s enterprise market. But RIM isn’t just a phone maker, and today the company introduced a forward-looking product that could help the company survive […]
QNX powered BlackBerry phones may run Android apps
RIM is expected to give the BlackBerry Playbook and future BlackBerry smartphones the ability to run Android apps as well as native BlackBerry applications. The ability to run Android software will come through an “App Player” released directly by RIM to select devices, only one of which is currently on the market (the Playbook.) While […]