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• BlackBerry maker settles patent dispute for $268M

  After three years of combative and abstruse legal maneuvering, Research in Motion announced today it had thrown in the towel and will pay Visto $267.5 million to settle a patent infringement dispute.

• RIM preps New Zealand BlackBerry app store

  Research In Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, is claiming success with two developer workshops it held in New Zealand in May.

• Web-based service offered for mobile app development

  Rhomobile on Wednesday is announcing a public beta version of RhoHub, a Web-based service for developing and hosting smartphone applications.

• RIM sells 50 millionth BlackBerry, stock soars on earnings

  Research In Motion Limited (RIM) stock soared in after-market trading after the company posted solid financial results and said it sold its 50 millionth BlackBerry smartphone.

• BlackBerry bug threatens Windows users

  Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, Tuesday warned users of a critical bug that can expose Windows users to attack.

• Microsoft, RIM, Oracle release critical patches

  Microsoft kept things to a minimum with its first set of security updates for 2009, but corporate system administrators who were expecting a quiet week got something else altogether, thanks to Oracle and Research In Motion.

• RIM lowers outlook with preliminary Q3 results

  Research In Motion's preliminary results for its just-concluded fiscal third quarter fell below its earlier forecast, with economic woes and product delays the prime culprits, the company said Wednesday.

• RIM: System upgrade snafu led to BlackBerry email outage

  One day after a service outage temporarily left BlackBerry users in North America without access to their email, Research In Motion said an initial investigation indicated that the outage was caused by problems with an internal data routing system that recently had been upgraded.

• Forum: Apple, RIM and my lost Hotmail

  I was out at lunch the other day with an avid Blackberry user. He was showing off his new Curve, as gadget people are wont to do. He was clearly pretty chuffed with it, but then started to have the odd gripe, such as about how unintuitive some of the functions were (from memory, Mute was one of these).

• Wireless products unveiled, including SMB BlackBerry app

  Research In Motion (RIM) Monday released software designed to help businesses with up to 30 users get the same core wireless email and related functions from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server that larger companies and government organisations now get.

• Facebook teams up with RIM

  College parties met business e-mail on Wednesday as Facebook Inc. said it is adding its social-networking platform to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices.

• ANZ BlackBerry certification not what it seems

  French concerns about the use of BlackBerry devices in government, which erupted this week, are shared in Australia and New Zealand.

• RIM, Verizon launch BlackBerry for the world traveller

  Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion has launched the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smart phone, which is designed to provide business travellers data and voice connections in 60 countries.

• RIM's growth slowed by legal worries

  Blackberry users may be breathing a sigh of relief now the long-running lawsuit with NTP is over, but Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) will be counting the cost - in lost customers - for some time to come.

• RIM's BlackBerry will prevail

  Several patent hassles facing Research In Motion (RIM) will cost it a good deal of money to resolve, but speculation about the demise of the BlackBerry or its network service is a waste of time. RIM is a company that knows how to tough it out — it’s hung on through a lot worse than this. That seems easy to forget. The media also loses sight of the differences between the BlackBerry and other devices such as PDAs and smartphones with email capability.