Blackberry News & Articles

Hot on the heels of its BlackBerry7 devices announced earlier this month, RIM now goes for the mass market with a collection of new Curve keyboard-toting phones.

Skype shows off some more acquisition aggression by picking up group messaging start-up GroupMe for around US$ 80 million. 

Businesses are increasingly warming up to the use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets for productivity and improved collaboration. But while there is the need to ensure their data is secure when accessed on mobile devices, not everyone can afford big IT departments and dedicated hardware to manage their tech-related assets. With this in mind, Research In Motion (news, site) has launched a cloud-based management service for BlackBerry devices.

Research in Motion (news, site) has had a tough couple of years. Is it about to start on the comeback trail with a range of new models sporting the company's latest mobile OS?

Struggling BlackBerry (news, site) continues to plug away at the holes in its user base with a new messenger update that aids multitasking.

With several major mobile platforms available for users, application developers might find it difficult to do actual testing to ensure their apps work as intended on different platforms. AppCentral's (news, site) newly launched Developer Lab provides tools for sandbox testing and multi-platform deployment of applications, with focus on the enterprise market.

Maker of the once uber-popular BlackBerry, Research In Motion (news, site), is doing everything it can to remain competitive. The company announced it is laying off a little over 10% of its 19,000-person staff and restructuring its leadership team. Will the changes be enough to improve performance at the troubled company?

Is the recent announcement by IBM to drop support for its Lotus collaboration software client on Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry yet another signal that RIM (news, site) is about to meet its demise? It sure seems that way.

Editor's Note: IBM's public relations firms contacted us to dispute this news, saying it has not dropped support for the BlackBerry at all. See IBM's statement.

Real time group collaboration solution Sazneo (news, site) gets an update this week that includes better ways to manage and filter your information and support for the BlackBerry.

Zoho (news, site) continues its expansion into the mobile office arena with a dedicated iPhone app.

There’s no point in having, or developing, a business process management package unless users have access to it. With the holiday weekend, many users are going to be looking at mobility, but so has Appian (news, site), which announced enhancements to its mobile BPM capabilities including mobile image and document capture, as well as mobile access to task lists.

Adobe (news, site) updates to Flash Builder and Flex mean coders can now produce apps across the trifecta of mobile and tablet environments.

Enterprise collaboration service Flowr offers a simplifed design and mobile features that encourages communication and activity via a bright and uncomplicated layout.

Hot on the heels of Software AG's (news, site) acquisition of Terracotta, the company has announced the acquisition of Metismo for its cross-platform mobile devlopment environment.

Dropbox (news, site) gets a leg up in its quest for Japanese marketshare by joining in with major service provider Softbank and phone maker Sony Ericsson.