Research in Motion Tuesday started making available its answer to the iPad: an enterprise-focused tablet computer called the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/092810-rim-blackberry-playbook.html">PlayBook</a> that starts at $500.
In the long-ago days of last September, we wrote about four things that Research in Motion had gotten right in its initial public relations blitz for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, which ships April 19 starting at $499.
While it's unlikely that future wars will be won or lost by <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030911-android-iphone-apps-open-source.html">applications</a>, it's entirely possible that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> deployed in the battlefield could soon be saving lives.
A worldwide survey into mobile platforms has confirmed what many CIOs and IT managers already knew: Apple's iPhone leads the way when it comes to consumer loyalty, but it faces stiff competition from Android.
Blackberry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), has joined forces with Microsoft to create a RIM-hosted BlackBerry enterprise service for Office 365.
Wouldn't it be great if you could press a button on your smartphone and broadcast to all your friends, or to groups of fellow employees? This kind of push-to-talk communications is now possible using Twisted Pair Solutions' new Wave Connections service.
Research in Motion is recommending that IT departments and users disable JavaScript on their BlackBerry devices, citing a vulnerability unearthed at this year's Pwn2Own hacker challenge.
RIM has been talking up its PlayBook tablet for months, but has been coy about when the latest Apple iPad killer will ship and what it will cost. Speculation heated up Wednesday, on the same day that Apple is expected to make big iPad news, that April 10 will be the day of the PlayBookâs real coming out party.
I was sitting in the middle of one of the most security conscious crowds you'd ever come across--about 200 computer security professionals listening to a high-powered panel on mobile security threats at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week.
The battle among mobile operating systems may garner a lot of headlines, but it seems network quality is still the most important factor for smartphone users.
An analyst's open letter to Nokia's CEO, a former Microsoft executive, has triggered intense speculation that the Finnish phone maker will adopt Windows Phone 7 as the firmware for at least some of its struggling smartphone line.
More than a quarter of AT&T customers and about a quarter of Verizon customers say they are willing to wait in line on Feb. 10 to switch over to Apple iPhones that will run on Verizon's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/3g-4g.html">3G wireless</a> network.
ARLINGTON, Va. --When a researcher at an ethical-hacking firm discovered mobile devices from Apple, Google, RIM and HTC had a flaw in them that would allow an attacker using malicious Web code to freeze them up and crash them, he contacted the companies last year. While RIM decided the problem needed to be patched in its BlackBerry devices and Apple worked on its iPhone and iPad, Google and HTC reportedly shrugged off the information that TEHTRI-Security supplied.
When it comes to the bevy of new tablet computers coming to market, a tablet maker's brand will take on more significance than ever.
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) yesterday issued two separate security advisories warning both BlackBerry smartphone users and corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) administrators of newly discovered security flaws in many versions of RIM's BlackBerry handheld software and in BES.