The other day I was taking a spinning class at the gym and I looked over at the woman next to me and noticed she had both a BlackBerry Bold and an iPhone 4 propped up on her bike’s handlebars. This was New York, where it’s not unusual to see people pounding out emails in the middle of a spinning...

Blackberry phones just aren’t that desirable anymore, and that’s why device maker Research in Motion is having so much trouble. For years, the company has released dated hardware designs with last-gen specs, but more importantly, the Blackberry software experience hasn’t kept up with the...

This afternoon RIM has released a beta version of their developer toolset for BlackBerry OS 7, the new software running on the Bold 9900. Developer APIs include new access to the magnetic compass, UI overlay, near-field communications, and video capture, as well as the 3D rendering power of OpenGL ES 2.0....

The BlackBerry PlayBook launched with the rather irksome “feature” that required a BlackBerry smartphone to be paired over Bluetooth to get core apps like e-mail, contacts, memos, and tasks. RIM has been promising that stand-alone versions would be available, and today at their big conference, they...

Big news is coming from BlackBerry this week, with new devices and services being announced from the smartphone manufacturer, but it’s also introducing a brand-spankin’ new OS: BlackBerry OS 7. We haven’t seen much of the new mobile operating system at this point, but we expect to catch plenty of it...