Posts Tagged ‘RIM’

BlackBerry Developer Challenge 2011 Announced

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

The BlackBerry Challenge 2011 has started off, accepting submissions for the first competition. This first competition is about developing the best Adobe Flash/Air app for RIM’s Playbook.

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RIM to Announce BlackBerry Bold with Touchscreen

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Over the past couple of days, there have been rumours of a BlackBerry Bold with touchscreen that would be announced by RIM somewhere soon. Research in Motion itself confirmed it ahead of schedule.

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Android Apps Also Coming to BlackBerry Phones

April 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Last Monday, we met some folks from RIM that were lorrying a PlayBook around in Holland. Of course we took it for a sweet little spin (we weren’t at MWC), but there’s more to this story.

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RIM Acquires TinyHippos

March 30th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Those that visited our Mobile Unconference event last September in Düsseldorf probably met the great guys from TinyHippos. Great news for them, they have been bought by Research in Motion.

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RIM Confirms Android Support on Playbook

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

RIM has confirmed that the new BlackBerry Playbook will be able to run Android apps. RIM will deliver two ‘app players’ with the playbook that should make sure the apps run on the tablet.

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BBM Goes Open

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

RIM has just opened up BBM to developers that wish to include the messaging service into their BlackBerry apps. BlackBerry is however not opening up the API for usage from other platforms.

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ABI: App Store Generated 5.6 Billion Downloads

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to a report from ABI Research, Apple’s App Store has generated 5.6 billion downloads in 2010. With this number of downloads, it is safe to say Apple is the biggest player yet.

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ComScore: Android Passed RIM in the US

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Just like Nielsen, ComScore also calculated that Android has passed BlackBerry OS in the Unites States. According to ComScore, Android has 31.2% of the market making Google the dominant player.

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Nielsen: Apple and RIM Lead in the US

March 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to Nielsen, RIM and Apple have been leading the smartphone market in the United Stated over the priod from November 2010 till February 2011. Both managed to get 27% of the market in that period.

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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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