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BlackBerry 10 passes 100,000 apps as Z10 hits US market Friday

BlackBerry said on Thursday that BlackBerry 10 users now have access to more than 100,000 apps, a day before its all-touchscreen Z10 smartphone hit the U.S. market.

Microsoft pushes past BlackBerry in US smartphone platform market

Microsoft's Windows Phone has passed BlackBerry to become the third most popular smartphone platform in the U.S., behind Android and iOS, according to the latest stats from Strategy Analytics.

RIM moves up to No. 3 on smartphone device, OS ranking

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is continuing its slide in the smartphone market, dropping from the No. 3 smartphone maker to No. 7 in the third quarter, according to the most recent data from Gartner. Research in Motion took over Nokia's No. 3 spot, despite a smartphone sales decline.

Android surges to 75 percent mobile OS market share, says IDC

Google's Android took a 75 percent share of the smartphone operating system market in the third quarter, with Apple's iOS in a distant second, according to the latest research from IDC.

Spotlight: Mozilla teams with China's ZTE for new mobile OS

Firefox browser developer Mozilla and Chinese mobile handset vendor ZTE are teaming to launch a new mobile operating system later this year or earlier next year.

With Boot to Gecko, Mozilla says the web should be the platform for mobile devices

HANOVER, Germany--Mozilla says that mobile devices should be independent of the constraints of operating systems or captive software, but instead should be open-source devices in which the web itself

Google's Android accounts for more than 52% of smartphones sold in Q3

Google's ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android mobile operating system powered 52.5 percent of all smartphones sold worldwide during the third quarter of 2011, more than doubling its global market share over a year

DoD, VA open up to Android tablets, smartphones

U.S. government agencies have moved to adopt consumer tablets and smartphones. The Department of Defense (DoD) has approved the use of Dell's Android-based mobile OS, a move that is expected to pave

Meru Networks rolls out policy management solution for devices accessing corporate Wi-Fi

WLAN vendor Meru Networks has introduced a software module that allows corporate Wi-Fi networks to identify a wireless or wired device attempting to connect and then add the appropriate management

RIM shows off next-gen OS: A combo of BlackBerry 7, QNX

Research In Motion ( NASDAQ: RIMM ) showed off its next-generation operating system called BBX that blends the company's BlackBerry 7 OS and the QNX OS that powers the PlayBook tablet. The next-gen OS