Canadian firm Research In Motion (RIM) could license out its upcoming BlackBerry 10 (BB10) operating system to another manufacturer, the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, has said. In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Heins said ...
Research in Motion announced Wednesday that credit card company Visa has approved RIM's Visa for use in mobile payments made with smartphones or tablets that use a Near Field Communication chip. The system, called Secure Element Manager ...
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Apple's iOS and Google's Android have the widest adoption among mobile BI (business intelligence) applications, as the products are becoming more mature, according to a report from market research company Ovum. Mobile BI is far from a new ...
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It's starting to look like the BlackBerry store will be well stocked with apps when Research In Motion launches BlackBerry 10 at the end of this month. The company held an event over the weekend where it offered app developers incentives ...
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In the next 12 months, smartphones with five new operating systems are scheduled to go on sale, leaning on Web technologies and improved user interfaces to try and make a dent in the dominance of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. In two ...
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The fledgling Research In Motion may well find that the BlackBerry store could be packed with apps when it launches BlackBerry 10 at the end of January. The company held an event over the weekend, when it offered app developers incentives ...
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IDG News Service - Research In Motion's new BlackBerry 10 operating system looks good and SAP plans to begin supporting RIM handsets for its workforce shortly after the January launch, an SAP executive said Wednesday. BlackBerry, once a ...
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IDG News Service - Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network. The suits were filed ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
A month ahead of the launch of Research In Motion's BlackBerry 10 operating system, a couple of handsets running the OS have appeared in a U.S. radio regulatory database. There's not much about the phones that can be gathered from the ...
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Computerworld-SAN DIEGO--In three to six months,SAP plans to ship software designed to separate business data from users'personal information on smartphones and tablets,the head of the enterprise software maker's mobility unit said on ...
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Computerworld-Research in Motion CIO Robin BienAfait's last name means"well done"in French.She's hoping customers will agree that those words apply to the upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones that Waterloo,Ontario-based RIM is due to ship in ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) has sold its cloud services company NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies at a considerable loss, just a little more than a year after purchasing it. RIM's purchase of Irish software company NewBay for $100m in ...
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Computerworld-Apple's new 7.9-in.iPad mini will be a huge hit with business users as well as consumers,several industry analysts predicted Tuesday. Why? It starts with the$329 price tag for a Wi-Fi-only 16 GB version,making it ...
Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
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