Our friend Avram Piltch got to spend some quality time with the BlackBerry PlayBook at CES 2011. The PlayBook isn’t expected to start selling for a...
CES 2011 has really just officially kicked off but as always quite a bit of the big news has kicked off before the kick off. I...
Thai phone-maker Spriiing is debuting its Smile Android smartphone with a front-facing QWERTY keyboard layout as a challenger to RIM’s BlackBerry phones and also Motorola’s Android...
2010 is gone and so is its hyped up characterization as The Year of the Tablet. As I’ve said many times, 2010 could be better described...
In a statement that surely interrupted someone’s winter holiday, RIM yesterday qualified the earlier report by Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu that the BlackBerry PlayBook could...
Electronista reports that Research in Motion could be struggling to get the battery life on their BlackBerry PlayBook up to competitive levels. Adding insult to injury...
No, this list isn’t about gadgets and things. This wish list is about things I’d like to see happen in the mobile space. I’m an impatient...
The old crystal ball is a bit tough to read this year. That’s not a bad thing because it means we’re heading into a year that...
Microsoft is proudly announcing that it has sold 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 units and calls it a promising start. That’s a good number no matter...
RIM honcho Jim Balsillie in speaking on a recent earnings call says that “I think the Playbook redefines what a tablet should do.” He goes on...
In an investment call detailing third quarter earnings, RIM says that the BlackBerry PlayBook won’t be available until the first quarter in the U.S. initially. The...
Research in Motion has launched updates to its BlackBerry Desktop Software for Windows and Mac. The Mac update now supports synchronization with BlackBerry 6 devices, like...
At the D: Dive Into Mobile event, Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis says that the company’s QNX operating system will be coming to BlackBerry smartphones...
BGR has scored a demo with Research in Motion where the smartphone-maker showed off its BlackBerry PlayBook, which will launch in 2011. Unlike prior BlackBerry devices,...
Wow. That’s all I can say. I read some of the transcripts and watched some of the video from the D: Dive Into Mobile conference last...
Tablets and Slates need Apps to gain traction and have a chance of making market inroads. RIM wants its PlayBook Tablet to be a success certainly...
Research in Motion announced today that it acquired The Astonishing Tribe, or what some call the SWAT team of user interface design. BlackBerry’s UI is the...
While Android, iOS, and BlackBerry are current leaders in the smartphone war in the U.S., a recent Nielsen survey finds that men prefer Android as a...
The RIM Playbook Tablet/Slate is opening eyes on a lot of fronts. One of those is security and encryption especially in the Enterprise sector. According to...
Research in Motion’s been pretty shy when it comes to showing off the PlayBook. Back at DevCon 2010 we didn’t get to touch it and there...