Archive for the ‘Platforms: BlackBerry’ Category

MWC: Rim Announces More Hardware, Gifting and Funds

February 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Research in Motion made a whole lot of interesting announcements today. One of them is that the company has plans to release additional Playbooks for LTE and HSPA+ markets in H2 2011.

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RIM Launches In-App Payments

February 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Though Google is still preparing the launch of in-app payments, BlackBerry seems to have taken the lead over them by launching in-app billing support on BlackBerry App World.

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RIM Expects to sell 1 Million Playbooks in Q1

January 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

DigiTimes claims that Research in Motion expects to ship 1 million Playbooks to retailers in the first quarter of 2011 while the official release date still has to be confirmed by RIM itself.

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RIM Announces Dualcore Support for BlackBerry

December 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Research in Motion has announced that it will be releasing BlackBerry devices based on dualcore processors. Current models have single core CPU’s from Marvell.

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RIM Open for Playbook Apps

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has announced that developers are now allowed to upload Playbook apps to their servers. Those that do have a chance on getting a free complimentary Playbook from the company.

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BlackBerry App World Browsable Online

October 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has launched an online storefront to help consumers that prefer their apps to be purchased through a PC (or mac) instead of the mobile app store.

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Distimo Adds BlackBerry and Ovi Support

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me, Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Distimo has updated its Distimo Monitor to support both BlackBerry World and Nokia’s Ovi Store. Through the Mobile Monitor, developers can check the performance of their apps as well as that of competitors.

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Nielsen: Android Most Popular OS in the US

October 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to research from Nielsen, Android is now officially the most popular OS among recent smartphone buyers in the US market. It has beaten both iOS and BlackBerry OS in August.

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RIM Teams up With Webtrends on Analytics

September 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

Research in Motion has announced a partnership with Webtrends to provide free analytics of mobile apps and games to their respective developers.

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RIM Launches Ad Platform

September 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Research In Motion (and this had to be expected from the company) is the next company to launch a mobile advertising platform aiming at the in-app advertising market.

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