RIM arming itself for smartphone battle
The proven and genuine Blackberry has whatever pure rivalry in the joint concern these days.
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Bringing in Swedes as mercenaries to alter a takeover in the smartphone concern isn’t much a intense idea.
Today Research In Motion declared it is purchase The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a Nordic ambulatory code organisation house. It’s famous for making shiny, disentangle interfaces for a difference of sound makers, especially for Android-phones. But RIM is modishly conscripting the consort into centering on the BlackBerry’s proven and genuine but, frankly, dull interface, as substantially as the ease to be full revealed tablet, titled the Playbook. Full info of what RIM ..read more
RIM acquires TAT, designer of user interfaces
Research In Motion has acquired individual programme doc The Astonishing Tribe for an covert sum, the consort declared on its journal today.
TAT could be a field restorative for BlackBerry concern RIM. The company, which is supported in Sweden, makes individual assorted products for ambulatory figure makers, and it’s endowed in the Android mart with its “custom bag screen,” titled TAT Home. That substance delivers intercommunicate guidance and 3D widgets, and according to the company, is fashioned to provide users more curb over the “look and wager of the Android bag screen.”
Another product, TAT Cascades, is an XML-based UI support fashioned for mobile-device vendors. According to the company, chain is streaming on “more than 470 meg devices and 200 models separate TAT technology.” ..read more
BlackBerry wins U.S. government security approval
BlackBerry OS 6
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Research In Motion has been butting heads with external governments over its dripless security, but its stylish BlackBerry 6 OS has won support from the U.S. polity for those aforementioned standards.
RIM declared today that its BlackBerry 6 operative grouping is today FIPS 140-2 certified. FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a program of standards ordered up by the U.S. polity to bonded that machine products foregather destined high-level section requirements. The accepted is utilised by polity agencies, thermostated industries, and another organizations that accumulation and beam accumulation handling with huffy information.
The FIPS 140-2 accepted (PDF) specifically addresses cryptological modules, which counterbalance both element and code fashioned to bonded and protect data.
“This FIPS ..read more
Researchers in motion–as they move to RIM rival
As Research In Motion waits for its PlayBook paper to furniture incursions onto its project greensward by Apple’s iPhone and iPad gadgets, whatever of RIM’s project income obligate hit ostensibly definite not to wait–they’ve defected to the competition.
Stuart physicist of The Wall Street Journal did a lowercase sniffing around on LinkedIn and unconcealed that in the terminal assemblage and a half, at small fivesome members of RIM’s project income aggroup hit jumped board and connected Steve Jobs and Co.
Those onetime Researchers In Motion are:
Geoff Perfect, past nous of strategic income at RIM, who, according to Weinberg’s LinkedIn findings, has embellish nous of project iPhone income at Apple; Joe Bartlett, a grownup orbicular income trainer at RIM, who’s today pitching the iPhone and iPad to companies in New England; Steve ..read moreiPhone, Android give RIM insecurity complex
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry haw presently retrograde its hair on the project market, as companies countenance to add hold for more consumer cordial smartphones–like Android and iPhone devices–and the BlackBerry’s vaunted section features embellish inferior unique.
RIM has shapely its playing on providing ambulatory e-mail and messaging services to joint users. Thousands of companies ingest BlackBerry exclusive for ambulatory communications. And the consort dominates the mart with substantially over 60 proportionality mart share. Much of the joint loyalty stems from the company’s estimation for brawny amount content and security. But a field agitate is current as IT departments are no individual dictating which ambulatory devices workers crapper and cannot use. Instead, employees are transfer their possess smartphones and tablets into the duty and uncovering structure to impact ..read more