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• Coming soon from BlackBerry: Five things to look forward to

  By Al Sacco | 10 February, 2012 10:16

  These are dark days for Research In Motion (RIM) and its BlackBerry brand... or at least dim ones.

• Microsoft mobile CRM clients may mean more productivity

  By Tim Greene | 10 February, 2012 02:32

  The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms and put the software vendor ahead of some of its competitors, an expert says.

• More Android users take phones into bathroom than do iPhone, BlackBerry users

  By Bob Brown | 01 February, 2012 04:31

  A new survey of 1000 Americans confirms what you always suspected: A good many of those incoming Android, iPhone and BlackBerry calls and texts are originating from bathrooms.

• McAfee Mobile 2.0 moves beyond virus protection

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 31 January, 2012 00:24

  Intel-owned McAfee has released Mobile Security 2.0, which allows users of Android-based smartphones and tablets to keep better track of what applications are up to, the company said on Monday.

• Apple number one smartphone vendor again, say research firms

  By John Ribeiro | 27 January, 2012 16:49

  Apple has emerged as the number one smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2011, by a small margin, after losing ground to Samsung in the previous quarter, research firms Strategy Analytics and IHS iSuppli said.

• Will RIM survive?

  By Ryan Francis | 26 January, 2012 06:25

  As Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie step down as co-CEOs at Research in Motion, the company is at a cross roads. Thorsten Heins steps into the CEO chair with many daunting obstacles ahead of him and RIM.

• 4 tough challenges for RIM's new team

  By John Cox | 24 January, 2012 09:27

  For the first time since its founding, Research in Motion has changed its top leadership, with a new president/CEO, a new board chairwoman and a new major investor who specializes in turnarounds. But can they save RIM?

• RIM's new CEO wants to focus more on consumers

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 January, 2012 03:09

  RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, wants the company to improve its product development while also becoming better at marketing, he said during a conference call on Monday.

• Interview: Setting up storage distribution business

  By Matt Sainsbury | 25 March, 2009 16:25

  New channel recruit at EMC, Leo Lynch, joined the vendor three months ago after a long tenure with HP. He talked to MATTHEW SAINSBURY about opportunities in storage, social responsibilities in enterprise and BlackBerry devices.

• 2011's biggest security snafus

  By Ellen Messmer | 02 December, 2011 06:27

  Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency Operations Center because no one knew the password.

• Breaking down the BlackBerry Pearl 3G, Bold 9650

  By Brad Reed | 27 April, 2010 05:14

  Research in Motion isn't turning the smartphone world on its head with its two new releases, but is rather refining its own product lines.

• iPhone vs BlackBerry: Survey pits sexy against the suits

  By Tom Kaneshige | 04 November, 2009 06:49

  The "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" stereotypes in Apple's famous ad campaign have nothing on the findings from a new study of BlackBerry and iPhone owners.

• BlackBerry Storm browser keeps pace with peers

  By Daniel Ionescu | 14 September, 2009 23:45

  Research In Motion's BlackBerry Storm features a Java-based full-HTML browser, which RIM claims is in the same class with the browsers on iPhone, Palm Pre, Nokia, and Android devices. In many respects, that assertion is true.

• What RIM's Torch Mobile deal means for BlackBerry and you

  By Al Sacco | 26 August, 2009 04:43

  Ask BlackBerry power users for their number one complaint about Research In Motion (RIM) handhelds, and nine times out of ten you'll get the same answer: The BlackBerry Browser.

• Why BlackBerry Curve 8520 is First to Get Trackpad

  By Al Sacco | 06 August, 2009 04:50

  Today, Research In Motion (RIM) launched the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, an evolution of the Curve 83xx and Curve 8900 families of BlackBerry devices. Though the new Curve's really nothing groundbreaking--it's basically a combination of the two earlier Curves--the device features one brand new BlackBerry component that could prove to be quite significant: the trackpad. But why would RIM ditch its traditional track ball now and release the trackpad on its cheapest, lowest-end BlackBerry ever? Keep moving for an official answer from RIM, as well as my own "unofficial" opinion.

• BlackBerry App World: 9 Must-Do Fixes

  By Al Sacco | 02 July, 2009 07:18

  2009 is the Year of the Mobile App Store. Apple started the movement with the launch of its hugely successful iTunes App Store for the iPhone in 2008, then all the handset heavies followed suit. Today, Nokia operates the Ovi Store; Microsoft's got the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile; Google runs Android Marketplace; and Research In Motion (RIM) runs BlackBerry App World.

• Phoenix Freeze auto-locks laptops via smartphone

  By Al Sacco | 25 June, 2009 00:17

  A new product from Phoenix Technologies, called Freeze, lets you use BlackBerry or iPhone Bluetooth to tell a PC that you're leaving the area and want it to lock up. When you return, Phoenix Freeze can also automatically unlock the machine so it's ready for you. However, it only works on Windows PCs, doesn't support 64-bit platforms, disables all other Bluetooth peripherals and seems to be a bit buggy for an official release. Phoenix Freeze for BlackBerry and iPhone