Posts Tagged ‘BlackBerry’

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 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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Verizon Adds Android Support to V Cast

September 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Verizon has announced that the operator will be adding Android support to its own app store. Untill now, only BlackBerry developers could make use of this service.

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RIM: 50 Million BlackBerry Consumers and Counting…

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

In the second quarter of 2010, RIM has sold 12.1 million BlackBerry devices (that is up 56% year-on-year). The company calculated it has 50 million registered BlackBerry users.

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Nielsen: 27 Apps on Every US Smartphone

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Nielsen has revealed that the average US smartphone has 27 apps installed. This average is mainly pushed up by Android and iOS where consumers have easy access to free apps and games.

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BlackBerry Passes 10.000 Apps Mark

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

BlackBerry App World is growing up. Research In Motion’s app store has now passed the 10.000 apps mark in about 17 months time. BlackBerry App World opened up in April 2009.

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RIM Acquires DataViz

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Research in Motion (RIM) has acquired DataViz, the company behind Documents to Go. RIM has paid $50 million for the acquisition. The deal has not been confirmed by any of the two companies yet.

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RIM Acquires Cellmania

August 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Research in Motion has announced the acquisition of Cellmania to strengthen its knowhow in running BlackBerry AppWorld. Cellmania already provides content services for several operators.

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RIM Works on Better App World and Decreasing Revenues

August 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has been working hard on improving its App World consumer experience. As a result, developers will now be able to start billing games at $0.99, while the minimum has been $2.99.

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