Software-Programming

Research in Motion has shot down a wild rumor that its BlackBerry messaging app would be available on iOS starting April 26.

The rumor started Tuesday night when a poster at the MacRumors forums said she had attended a social media conference in Toronto with RIM’s chief executive, Jim Basillie, and that he promised the messaging platform was headed to Apple’s iOS next month.

Asus wheeled out its Transformer tablet-cum notebook in London today ostensibly making it the first Android Honeycomb-powered device on the market. The latest version of Google's mobile operating system was specifically designed for tablet PCs and should overcome some of the problems caused by the previous Gingerbread iteration's smartphone legacy.

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OUTFIT Mozilla has released a version of its Firefox 4 web browser designed for smartphones that run Google's Android 2.0 or later.

Firefox 4 for Android is built with the same technology as the desktop version and so comes with tabbed browsing, bookmarks, add-ons and Firefox Sync. Firefox Sync allows a user's history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data to be used by and shared among multiple devices.

Developers and hackers, rejoice! Sony Ericsson will be unlocking the bootloader for a handful of its newer models, meaning no more painstaking custom unlocks and ROM hunts. Plus, it's all totally legit, so no more grey areas regarding hacking legalities.

We've all been there. It's midnight, the maintenance window for work on a few remote systems is quickly closing, and some critical infrastructure component is down hard. It might be a router, a switch, a storage array, or a server -- it doesn't really matter. There's trouble in River City.

If you're like me, you might have a dream that surfers will soon not have to rely on plug-ins to enjoy browsing the web. For fellow dreamers, the forthcoming and latest round of browser wars might lead to a better web experience rather than yet another plug-in based nightmare.