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Should RIM's CEOs Go to Jail?

This week four of RIM's [RIMM] top executives settled options backdating cases with the SEC and the OSC, Canada's securities regulation agency. The Ontario-based cronies have agreed to pay almost $100 million CN in penalties, costs ...READ»

BlackBerry Application Store Opens with Fanfare of Meaningless Brandspeak

RIM's BlackBerry Application Storefront is now officially open for developer submissions, ahead of Microsoft's efforts and lagging far behind Apple's store--now running to 15,000 apps and 500,000,000 downloads. But that didn't stop ...READ»

Surfing the Web with Voice

An Indian startup named TringMe announced a new platform this week that it says will allow developers to easily write voice-enabled apps and widgets for the Web. But to date, voice-over-IP is a technological underachiever. Could ...READ»

What Ever Happened To Garmin's NuviFone? [video]

It looked like it could be the ultimate iPhone-killer, but delay after delay has kept it from market. Some reports say it will be ready soon, while others suggest it's been abandoned all together. Will we ever see Garmin's [GRMN] ...READ»

Sprint's Golden Hour Cometh

AT&T [ATT] and Verizon [VZ] are today's behemoths in the mobile service provider marketplace. But with its fast network, forward-thinking technology, and value-oriented plans, the next decade of cell users could all belong to the ...READ»

Palm's New OS To Go Nova at CES, Possibly on New Hardware

Palm was once king of the PDA, but the rise of the smartphone and Windows-powered PDAs led to its crown slipping a long way. But this year the hot-hardware Centro smartphone helped bring Palm more success, and now there's news that ...READ»

ChaCha's Mobile Text Search on AT&T One-Ups Google's

ChaCha's text search for mobile is set to debut on AT&T, and while the kinks definitely need working out its results are superior to Google's similar service. But it'll never replace texting your friends.READ»

• Can ChaCha's Humans Compete with Google's Algorithms?
• Search Engine Showdown

TechWatch: Buy The BlackBerry Storm

You didn't want an iPhone anyway.READ»

• Tech Watch: Who's Afraid of the Touchscreen BlackBerry?
• A Week Inside T-Mobile's G1

Tech Watch: Who's Afraid of the Touchscreen BlackBerry?

Gadget nuts everywhere await the arrival of RIM's first touchscreen device. Will the Storm be a bellwether device, or just another flavor of BlackBerry?READ»

Tech Watch: Cheap Nationwide WiFi

Lots of news stories have been trampled by Election Day coverage, but none more nerdily exciting than Tuesday's FCC decision to open up “white space” – or space in the 700MHz range of the wireless spectrum – for unlicensed wireless use. Imagine a new Bluetooth frequency that could rove hundreds of miles, instead of just a few feet.READ»

Tech Watch: E-Ink, Sonos, and Linux on Lenovo: Multimedia Life Gets Lighter

Listening to music gets easier just by using your iPhone or iPod Touch to remote control the Sonos multi-room music system, which controls all of the music around your house. And, electronic paper gets closer to real broadsheet displays. READ»

Big News From BlackBerry

Today we have the privilege of recognzing two signifcant achievements for RIM [RIMM], the maker of BlackBerry devices. Both are long in coming, much-needed, and potentially dangerous for companies trying to dominate the touchscreen ...READ»

Nokia Planning More Touchscreen Phones?

Consumers that checked out a Nokia [NOK] podcast on its new S60 Symbian operating system this week might have noticed that it featured press photos of an as-yet-announced touchscreen device. On the heels of the release of the Finnish ...READ»

Nokia Expands Email Abilities; Buys OZ Communications

Around the smartphone industry, RIM [RIMM] is traditionally known as the email specialist. Now it appears that Nokia [NOK] might be trying to gin up a little competition for the Canadian Blackberry-maker by purchasing OZ ...READ»

Blackberry Javelin Is Coming

RIM [RIMM] is following up the successful product life of the Blackberry Curve with an even better successor: the Javelin. Not only is it an improvement on its predecessor, but it even has an edge over the new Blackberry Bold with a ...READ»

Worst Trading Day Since 9/11, Tech Stocks Take Cover

The foundering of several bedrock financial companies helped create a perfect storm today, spurring to one of the worst trading days in nearly a decade. The tech sector didn't escape the catastrophe, but fared more buoyantly than ...READ»

Blackberry Goes 'Lifestyle'

Today Blackberry maker RIM [NSDQ:RIMM] announced a handful of new smartphone applications for the Blackberry platform aimed at making the devices more palatable to non-business customers. Partering with Internet giants like ...READ»

Palm Announces Treo Pro

Palm [NASDAQ:PALM] didn't do such a hot job of keeping this thing under wraps, but that doesn't make it any less interesting to the smartphone community. The Treo Pro unfurled its red carpet months ago when a whole littany of leaked ...READ»

Google's Android Gets Closer

A curious day of news from Web giant Google [NASDAQ:GOOG], whose rumored GPhone arrived for approval at the FCC. But even more interesting is fresh dirt on the Android operating system that should make the GPhone a contender in the ...READ»

Touchscreen Blackberry Thunder Coming October?

Those wiley nerds at the Boy Genius Report are pretty confident that the Blackberry Thunder -- RIM's [NASDAQ:RIMM] full-screen answer to an unnamable touchscreen uber-success made by a certain Californian company -- is slated to be ...READ»

Motorola's Do-Or-Die Phone Leaked

It's well known within the wireless industry that Motorola [NYSE:MOT] is perhaps on its last leg; with an abysmal balance sheet and few consumer successes of late, company board has given themsevles an ultimatum. If their next big ...READ»

Microsoft to Release Zune Phone?

There's been a lot of buzz lately about Microsoft's [NASDAQ:MSFT] new, if belated, campaign to get reluctant users to adopt Vista. What they're doing is the ol' on-camera switcheroo: filming "real" users reactions to a ...READ»

Touchscreen BlackBerry "Storm" Progressing Well

RIM [TSE:RIM] execs might have taken some cheap shots at Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL] for its touchscreen when the iPhone debuted a year ago, but now more details are emerging about RIM's own touchscreen device. Rumors had originally pegged ...READ»

BlackBerry Kickstart Only $50?

RIM [TSE:RIM] has done a shamefully poor job of keeping the prototypes of their first BlackBerry flip phone, the Kickstart, under wraps, and today the ignominy continues. According to a chorus of tech bloggers who are rarely wrong ...READ»

Corporate iPhone to Get Slide-Out Keyboard?

Apple [NASDAQ:APPL] might be leading edge, but they're not stubborn. That's the implication of an article appearing in The Register today which has the temerity to suggest that Cupertino might be developing an iPhone with a ...READ»