Smartphone apps banned by Apple, Google, and RIM
Eight notorious apps from gambling to baby shaking that were yanked from app stores.
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Blackberry Bold 9700
The latest Blackberry smartphone, the Bold 9700, will be available in Australia from late November. It is a companion smartphone to the Bold 9000, with added capabilities such as 3G HSDPA support and an optical trackpad. Read more about the [[artnid:325167|Blackberry Bold 9700|new]].
News about RIM
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BlackBerry warns of disastrous Q2
BlackBerry shares plunged 20% late Friday afternoon as the company announced plans to fire 40% of its employees and eventually cut expenditures in half over the next nine months. The actions were in response to the company's warning of a collapse in second fiscal quarter earnings.
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BlackBerry's bleak options: will suitors really pay for a wedding?
As BlackBerry's board of directors formally begin exploring "strategic alternatives," they'll find their options limited, according to two IT sector analysts. All the likely alternatives call for a much diminished company, or
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Startup uses new technology to out-Akamai Akamai
Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices.
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Iowa State researchers discover possible route to terahertz storage speeds
A team of Iowa State University researchers, working at the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, recently detailed a way to use ultra-short laser pulses and special materials to switch magnetism roughly 1,000 times faster than current-generation storage devices.
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SIP trunking: The savings are there but the transition is complex
The merits of SIP trunking have been talked about for years and now it looks like businesses are aggressively adopting the technology, lured by striking cost savings and the promise of new functionality that their old phone networks just couldn't support.
Features about RIM
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Is Android in the business world to stay?
It's official, and it's been official for a while -- Android is far and away the most popular smartphone OS in America. Ever since January 2011, when the platform surpassed RIM to take the top spot for the first time in comScore's monthly market share rankings, Google's operating system has continued to grow its user base, which accounts for 52% of the market as of this January.
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Apple and Google have nothing to fear from BlackBerry 10 - but Microsoft does
Hands-on review: BlackBerry 10 is a big step up, but it's awkward to use in some key areas
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Review: RIM tries to get back in the game with sleek and fast Z10 BlackBerry
Touch-screen smartphone retains most of the strengths that made the platform a corporate favorite while making a player for consumers as well.
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Can new smartphones rekindle the BlackBerry fire?
'Not dead yet' could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced Wednesday.
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Can new smartphones rekindle the BlackBerry fire?
'Not dead yet' could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced Wednesday.