I can't wait for BlackBerry 10. Hold on, I can hear you through my screen right now: Why Todd? Are you nuts? RIM is dead! Technically, RIM isn't dead yet and its success will rely largely on how well it executes the launch of BlackBerry 10 and its new family of smartphones. That's what's so exciting about this scenario: Has RIM done everything it needs to in order to make its platform a...
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said back in October that it was planning to ditch RIM's BlackBerry operating system for iOS. It seems to have had a change of heart, however, because RIM announced on Thursday that ICE will be one of the first government organizations to partake in a new BlackBerry 10 pilot program. "ICE has been a valued BlackBerry...
It's been a long, winding, dark road for Research In Motion, but the company on Tuesday finally made the Gold SDK for BlackBerry 10 available to download. The toolkit includes everything that's necessary for developers to create apps for the company's upcoming OS, and it's hitting with less than two months before BlackBerry 10's much anticipated launch event. Along with the...
Nokia is shutting down its Australia Qt offices and laying off the developers team. Former Nokia engineer Atlant Schmidt posted a message on a Qt mailing list saying that Nokia is aggressively looking to sell off its Qt assets. Qt is a cross-platform framework used for mobile and desktop application software with a graphical user interface (GUI). Qt was created by Norwegian software...
Research In Motion announced on Thursday that it has released an update to its BlackBerry 10 developer toolkits. The tools. are available for free from RIM’s developer site but are currently still in beta, the company said. The latest enhancements include new APIs, for allowing BlackBerry 10 applications to interact with one another, and Push APIs for sending notifications to end users...
RIM's in the gutter, we all know that. I wanted to write an editorial on its poor fiscal first quarter earnings report yesterday, but there wasn't much more to say that hasn't already been said. The company needed to launch BlackBerry 10 this year — not by the end of the year, but way back before Windows Phone 8, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and iOS 6 were detailed. Instead, the company's...
Research in Motion announced yesterday that its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system had been delayed until 2013 — much to the dismay of increasingly frustrated BlackBerry fans the world over. With the Canadian company counting on this operating system — and the devices that will run it — to turn its fortunes around, the delay hasn't been well received by anyone. Reuters is now...
This week on The Evolution of Research in Motion, the Canadian smartphone maker has announced that it will be teaming up with TomTom to bring HD Traffic to BlackBerry devices. We're a bit surprised that the company didn't out this announcement during its own show last week, but at least it's a step forward for RIM. Under this new setup, Maps, Traffic and Locate will now be powered by...
You may associate the BlackBerry brand as being all business, but Research In Motion is hashing out deals in order to cater to the full spectrum of mobile trends. The handset maker announced a partnership on Wednesday that will bring 11 Gameloft games to BlackBerry 10 at launch. Among the titles optimized for the platform: Shark Dash, N.O.V.A 3: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance, Ice Age...
We just came from a briefing at BlackBerry World 2012 (don't forget to check out our keynote coverage) here in Orlando where RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took a rare moment to speak directly to the press. He explained RIM's current stance, why he didn't know there was so much turmoil within the company before he took his role as chief executive officer and much more. Dealing with Turmoil At...