Research in Motion News

Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.

While thousands of high-tech positions go begging, the number of unemployed in the Waterloo, Ont., area surges past the national average Susanna Kelley Waterloo, Ont.

Research In Motion is going to build out its BlackBerry application ecosystem by offering developers as many tools and choices as possible, according to Mike Kirkup, RIM's director of developer relations.

An advertisement for the Apple iPhone is shown at a retail store in Bordeaux, southwestern France, October 23, 2009.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion kicked off its second annual BlackBerry Developer Conference this week in San Francisco, and the company quickly wowed its developer audience on the first day with a variety of exciting announcements, including an entire "toolbox" of new development utilities.

Canadian stocks fell for the first time in six days, led by energy producers, as natural gas slid to the lowest level in almost two weeks.

Research In Motion lifted the wraps Monday on an aggressive program to attract developers to its BlackBerry platform, while the company's co-chief executive dismissed recent concerns on Wall Street about RIM's prospects in the fast-growing smartphone market.

Google Inc. , owner of the worlda s most popular Internet search engine, agreed to pay $750 million in stock for AdMob Inc., a mobile-phone advertising startup backed by Google investor Sequoia Capital.

Research in Motion announced several advancements at its 2009 BlackBerry Developer Conference on Monday, including a new application payment platform, tighter integration with Adobe products and OpenGL ES support for version 5.0 of its mobile operating system.

Research In Motion along with Adobe Systems today announced an expanded partnership in which the two companies will bring new software development tools to BlackBerry mobile application developers as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 5 . Adobe's CS5, currently rumored to be released this coming spring, and future version of the software package will ...

Research In Motion is making it easier for software developers make money from the applications they develop for its popular BlackBerry smartphone as the company falters in the face of stiff competition from rivals like Apple Inc.

The company debuted two impressive new smartphones, the Cliq and the Droid, which appear to be viable competitors for Apple's popular iPhone and RIM's BlackBerrry.

"It's kind of heavy, isn't it?" Those are the first words people seem to utter when they heft a Droid smart phone.

Canadian stocks fluctuated as U.S. indexes of manufacturing, construction spending and pending home sales topped economistsa forecasts, lifting commodity producers, and Research In Motion Ltd.

U.S. stock futures rose Thursday, helped by Cisco Systems' upbeat results, a buyback at Research In Motion and relatively upbeat economic reports on unemployment claims and productivity.

Motorola's upcoming Droid smartphone is grabbing plenty of attention--so much attention, in fact, that news of two new BlackBerry devices is getting lost in the shuffle.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Canadian markets opened weakly, dipping in and out of positive territory, Thursday as lower oil and poor results from Canadian insurers dragged down markets.

Despite the economy, worldwide smartphone shipments in the third quarter set a new quarterly record, according to IDC.

U.S. stock futures were pointing to a moderately higher start Thursday, helped by a decline in weekly jobless claims, a stronger-than-expected profit report from Cisco Systems and a stock buyback at Research In Motion.

Research in Motion has shipped a patch to cover a gaping hole in its BlackBerry Desktop Manager software.