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Halliburton dumping BlackBerry, switching to iOS

by Chris Rawson (Feb 6th, 2012)

RIM's star just sank a bit closer to the horizon. Halliburton, a household name in the energy industry and once a BlackBerry bastion, is dumping RIM's platform and switching to iOS. The company once relied heavily on RIM's platform, but after evaluating RIM, Windows Phone, Android, and iOS, ...

Daily Update for December 20, 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

App Store hypothetical market cap beats RIM's value

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 20th, 2011)

Research in Motion, maker of the once-ubiquitous BlackBerry, hasn't been doing so well this year. As each month goes buy, its smartphone continues to lose market share to the likes of Apple's iPhone and Android-powered phones. Just last week, RIM's stock sank after dismal quarterly earnings and ...

Daily Update for November 29, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 29th, 2011)

RIM's Mobile Fusion to offer iPhone security

by Steven Sande (Nov 29th, 2011)

With its smartphones becoming increasingly unpopular and its PlayBook tablet a total flop, Research In Motion (RIM) is searching for a way to improve revenues. Now the company has come up with an idea that might help it remain relevant in the enterprise market. RIM has announced Mobile Fusion, ...

ZDNet: Adobe's no longer developing Flash for mobile devices (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 9th, 2011)

According to a report from ZDNet, Adobe is no longer working on Flash for mobile devices. A statement released to developers claims Adobe will provide bug fixes and security updates for the current version of mobile Flash for Android and RIM's Playbook, but will halt further development. Adobe ...

Musician John Mayer shares his thoughts on Steve Jobs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 20th, 2011)

In a recent blog post, Grammy award winning artist John Mayer recalls his eight-year relationship with Steve Jobs. It's an interesting story about the Apple CEO that shows the gracious side of his personality, a trait that's not often discussed. Mayer met Steve Jobs in 2003 when Mayer called ...

Openwave accuses Apple and RIM of patent infringement

by Chris Rawson (Aug 31st, 2011)

This story is getting familiar enough that you could generate Mad Libs out of it. Company you've never heard of is accusing successful, household name corporations of infringing its patents on drop-dead obvious features that devices have had for years and is seeking an injunction on device ...

Millennial: Android beats iOS in ad impressions, Apple top manufacturer

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 12th, 2011)

Millennial Media is a mobile ad network that has tracked mobile ad impressions for the last few years. The company released its Q2 2010 statistics which is its 50th overall report. To commemorate this achievement, Millennial compared quarterly statistics with a look back at the mobile industry ...

Kodak may sell image patent in Apple lawsuit

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 2nd, 2011)

Kodak may sell the image previewing patent that is the subject of a US$1 billion infringement lawsuit filed against Apple and RIM. This patent is one of 1,100 patents that Kodak is looking to sell as it tries to raise cash. Analysts estimate these patents may be worth more than $650 million, ...

Courts approve sale of Nortel patents to Apple, others

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 11th, 2011)

Courts in both the US and Canada have approved the sales of Nortel patents to a consortium of companies led by Apple. On July 1st Apple, Microsoft, Ericsson, EMC, Sony and RIM beat out competing offers from Google and Intel to win a treasure chest of 6,000 Nortel patents. The total cost of the ...

Study reveals Apple surpasses RIM in US smartphone share

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2011)

Apple is now the #2 mobile platform in the US with 26.6% market share. Apple rose 1.4 percentage points and inched past RIM which now holds 24.7% of the US market. Similar to Apple, Android also gained market share grabbing another 5.1 percentage points to climb to 38.1% market share. Rim took ...

Nielsen study shows climbing iPhone sales in the US

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2011)

Nielsen has released the results of a new survey of mobile phone users in the US, and the word (almost) all around is growth. More and more people are buying smartphones, and while Android currently sits in the most popular smartphone spot (with 38% of smartphone owners holding Android ...

ITC issues partial ruling against Kodak in patent-infringement case

by Steven Sande (Jun 30th, 2011)

Today was the day that the ITC was supposed to make a ruling about the patent infringement case it filed against Apple and RIM in early 2010, and sure enough, the word is out. The commission is upholding an earlier ruling by one of its judges which basically threw out the main image preview ...

RIM's various hardware, OS options make app development expensive

by Steven Sande (Jun 27th, 2011)

According to an article on Bloomberg Businessweek today, a growing number of mobile developers are focusing their attention on the iOS and Android platforms and abandoning product development for Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablet. The reason? Too many hardware and ...