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• Judge deems Kodak digital camera patent invalid

  By James Niccolai | 22 May, 2012 10:14

  A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that a Kodak patent asserted in a complaint against Apple and Research In Motion is invalid, Kodak said on Monday.

• SAP rolls out new mobile apps, boosts HTML5, iOS, Android support

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 00:42

  SAP on Monday unveiled a series of mobile applications covering areas such as expense management and e-learning, as well as improved support for iOS and Android devices. The announcements came at the start of the vendor's Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• In Pictures: A closer look at RIM's BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha smartphone

  By Al Sacco | 02 May, 2012 08:57

  RIM has unveiled the first smartphone running its next-generation BlackBerry 10 software. The device is meant only for developers, however, and won't ever be released to the public. CIO.com's Al Sacco shares a number of images of the new BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha handheld.

• In Pictures: 11 not entirely useless factoids about BlackBerry maker RIM

  By John Cox | 02 May, 2012 08:53

  Trivial pursuits swirling around BlackBerry World 2012

• Blackberry facing years to turn around

  By AAP | 27 April, 2012 09:38

  The newest board member of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says a turnaround could take three to five years.

• Are BYOD workers more productive?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 24 April, 2012 09:01

  Bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, is a movement blurring the line between work and personal life. After all, BYOD is all about employees using personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes. So does this mean people check Facebook when they should be working or read job-related emails on weekends?

• RIM launches in India low-cost phone for emerging markets

  By John Ribeiro | 18 April, 2012 23:31

  Research In Motion will start selling in India from Thursday a low-cost smartphone with the BlackBerry 7 OS that will soon be offered in other emerging markets.

• RIM dooms itself with IT-centric strategy

  By Rob Enderle | 01 April, 2012 06:00

  In a world driven by consumerization one company stands alone against the wave of employees who are bringing their iPhones and Android phones to work. That company is RIM , who just announced plans to abandon their consumer efforts and focus on the enterprise. We know this will work because it worked so swimmingly for Microsoft. I think we can officially start preparing to say, "RIP, RIM."

• RIM to return to business focus; new BlackBerry strategy promised

  By Galen Gruman | 30 March, 2012 10:20

  Research in Motion's future is getting iffier each quarter as it signs on fewer new customers and has had to discount large numbers of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets to clear inventory. The company revealed today that its revenue dropped 25 per cent in the last fiscal quarter versus a year earlier, a decrease of $5.6 billion, with the decline in revenues accelerating after it launched its BlackBerry 7 smartphones in fall 2011 and had to deeply discount the poorly selling PlayBook tablet in the same period.

• SuccessFactors offers free version of Jam software in hit against Salesforce.com

  By Chris Kanaracus | 29 March, 2012 05:57

  SAP's SuccessFactors subsidiary is rolling out a version of its Jam social collaboration platform at no charge to all users, the company announced Wednesday.

• IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy

  By Chris Kanaracus | 27 March, 2012 06:18

  IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time.

• Interest in HTML5 growing among mobile developers

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 21 March, 2012 00:46

  Mobile developers will increasingly use HTML5 in their applications during 2012, but fragmentation will make their life more difficult, according to a joint survey from IDC and cross-platform development vendor Appcelerator.

• Overwhelmed by iPhone and Android? Take the initiative, experts say

  By Brad Reed | 13 March, 2012 21:27

  It used to be that managing your company's mobility boiled down to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).

• In pictures: Free Android apps for BlackBerry PlayBook, 10 best downloads

  By Al Sacco | 01 March, 2012 08:17

  RIM recently released a major software update for its BlackBerry PlayBook that enables it to run Android applications. Android-on-the-PlayBook pickings are somewhat slim right now, but there are some quality apps out there if you know where to look, starting with these 10 great free downloads.

• RSA teams to bolster security for Apple, Google, RIM devices

  By Ellen Messmer | 29 February, 2012 03:35

  SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA, the security division of EMC, today said it would collaborate with several mobile and virtualization platform vendors to integrate RSA two-factor authentication and risk-detection technologies.