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RIM doubles number of BlackBerry apps
Research in Motion has doubled the number of apps for its BlackBerry devices and plans to open its web store to customers overseas as it takes on Apple's iPhone. RIM's App World now includes 2,000... Read more...
Forrester: Enterprise concerned about cost of mobile CRM
A new Forrester Research survey of more than 1,000 global IT and business leaders that are part of customer relationship management (CRM) purchase decisions found that many enterprises have yet to... Read more...
Lenovo increases the size of the delete key
Computer maker Lenovo has decided to incorporate larger "Delete" and "Escape" keys on the T400s range of ThinkPad laptops. This was not done on whim, though. It came about as a result of extensive... Read more...
Developer of popular BlackBerry app shares his experience
Marcus Watkins, who wrote the PodTrapper software for the BlackBerry, has chronicled the journey that led him to develop for the RIM smartphone. PodTrapper is a BlackBerry podcast manager and,... Read more...
RepliGo Server 3.2 released
I just received an email from Cerience on the release of its RepliGo Server 3.2 product. I have been using this with my BlackBerry for a while now and have found it an extremely handy way to review... Read more...
Margins narrow as competition in smartphone market heats up
The increasingly competitive smartphone market is putting the squeeze on handset makers around the world. Even RIM--whose ubiquitous BlackBerry smartphones accounted for half of all smartphone sales... Read more...
The iPhone is still not ready for the enterprise
According to Don Reisinger of eWeek, the release of the iPhone software version 3.0 today will mark a sort of transition in which the iPhone finally becomes ready for the enterprise. And why not,... Read more...
Opera surpasses Safari in pageviews
According to data from StatCounter, Opera has overtaken Apple’s mobile Safari as the most popular browser in the month of May. Of course, it bears remembering that Apple's mobile Safari is... Read more...
Battle of the touch-screen smartphones
In the next couple of months we will see the release of touch screen smartphones running on several major platforms. Kicking off the party will be the Palm Pre on June 6, to be followed just days... Read more...
RIM: Smartphones will trump netbooks
Apple and RIM have something in common after all. Well, other than the fact that both companies happen to be smartphone makers in an increasingly competitive playing field. In a recent interview with... Read more...
