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Why choose a BlackBerry mobile phone?

posted onFebruary 8, 2012
by l33tdawg

Research In Motion spent the early years of their development focussing on the demands of the corporate business user, while continually refining their products and services, along with evolving them all. In the beginning, the rise of popularity within the BlackBerry society was purely down to the availability and access to email away from the computer.

RIM reportedly in talks to sell to Samsung, HTC, others

posted onJanuary 18, 2012
by l33tdawg

Research in Motion may be getting shopped around to other tech companies including Samsung or looking to license its OS, according to recent reports. Citing its "trusted sources," Boy Genius Report says that RIM may be looking to sell either some of its divisions or the whole company, though it may be overvaluing what it has to offer.

Hackers can spy on BlackBerry PlayBook connections

posted onJanuary 12, 2012
by l33tdawg

Researchers and attackers have had no shortage of mobile platforms and devices to sink their teeth into in recent years, thanks to the explosion of iOS and Android phones and tablets in the consumer and enterprise markets. Now, the spotlight is slowly beginning to turn in the direction of RIM, and specifically its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

RIAA: Kodak/Apple/RIM patent tangle proves we need Web censorship fast

posted onJanuary 5, 2012
by l33tdawg

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says that a proposed alternative to the draconian Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) won't work, and that it has found the patent case to prove it: Kodak's patent claims against Apple and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM). Two days before the new year, the US International Trade Commission announced that the Commission will place the "target date" for review of the case at September 21, 2012.

Connect In Private unveils new secure email, browsing app for BlackBerry

posted onDecember 21, 2011
by l33tdawg

Secure browsing, secure email and internet privacy tools provider Connect In Private has introduced its new secure email and browsing application for BlackBerry smartphones.

The new app provides BlackBerry users with an email account and a Web browser that accesses the Internet from behind CIP's IP addresses, ensuring impenetrable, untraceable transactions when utmost in privacy is required.

Hackers Update PlayBook Jailbreak Tool After RIM Closes Security Flaw

posted onDecember 8, 2011
by l33tdawg

Less than a day after Research in Motion patched a flaw that allowed users to jailbreak the PlayBook, hackers have found another security hole to exploit.

On Dec. 5, a team of hackers, led by "Neuralic," released Dingelberry, a jailbreak tool, to make it easier for users to jailbreak their own PlayBook tablets in order to gain root access on the device. The team had initially posted a video demonstrating a successful jailbreak a few days earlier.

RIM renames BBX as BlackBerry 10 after trademark dispute

posted onDecember 7, 2011
by l33tdawg

Research In Motion has rebranded its next generation mobile platform as BlackBerry 10, after its use of the BBX brand ran into a trademark dispute in the U.S.

RIM said in a statement on Wednesday that it had announced at its DevCon Asia conference in Singapore a new brand name for its next generation mobile platform for smartphones and tablets, which will bring the best of the BlackBerry and QNX platforms to customers and partners.