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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing mounting criticism over its ability to compete in its primary markets against Apple and Google. RIM fuelled speculation about looming difficulties when it released a dire financial warning last week in which it said i

TalkCentral episode 34 is good to go. In this week’s pre-Easter long weekend special, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones talk about Telkom’s Jeffrey Hedberg to join Craig Venter’s Altech as group chief operating officer

The battlefield is ready, the guns are out and SA’s mobile operators are shuffling troops into position for what could turn into a protracted war. The latest operator to fire a salvo into the field of battle is Telkom’s 8ta

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has fired a salvo across Apple’s bow by taking its popular enterprise server software into the “cloud” and integrating with it Microsoft’s upcoming Office 365

Smartphone sales soared 72,1% from 2009 to 2010 and accounted for 19% of total mobile communications device sales, new research from Gartner shows. That means nearly one in five phones now sold is a smartphone

The BlackBerry. Traditionally used by men in grey suits — bankers, accountants and lawyers. If you used a BlackBerry, you were a corporate nerd, tied to your company’s e-mail system.

Nokia’s leadership of the mobile phone market, especially in smartphones, has come under increasing pressure over the last few years and many of its latest devices have left consumers cold. In a bid to get back into the game, Nokia decided to take

An interface glitch between Vodafone and maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), left Vodacom’s BlackBerry users without access to their e-mails and applications for several hours on Friday morning.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has finally shown its hand in the tablet computer market, taking aim at Apple’s iPad with the PlayBook, a device with a 7-inch touch screen running the new BlackBerry Tablet OS. Aimed squarely at the corporate market – and thereby differentiating itself somewhat from the iPad – the PlayBook weighs 400g, has a screen resolution of 1024×600, sports a 1GHz dual-core processor, and supports true symmetric multiprocessing.

Android, Google’s mobile operating system, is set to contest the top spot in market share from Symbian within the next four years, says international technology research firm Gartner. Android was launched in late 2007 and has climbed steadily towards being the most popular operating system since.