BlackBerry Messenger goes cross-platform on iPhone, Android this summer

BlackBerry managed to squeeze in one surprise announcement during its huge conference keynote this morning.

Sprint launches **Me to kill all phone numbers: awesome, smart, and totally about to fail

Someone needs to bring our islands of identity together in a comprehensive, universal way ... or provide a DNS-like identity service that connects them all. I just don't think it's going to be StarStar Me.

Don’t shoot the BBM: BlackBerry Messenger’s fate in question as RIM struggles

Amid RIM’s seemingly-unending struggles, the company has seen a light: BlackBerry Messenger.

RIM says that use of its proprietary instant message service has spiked from 5.3 to 55 millions users over the past three years, even as the Blackberry’s user …

RIM’s Jim Balsillie tried to reinvent the company, expand BBM, before he quit

It was a bit of a surprise when former Research in Motion co-chief, Jim Balsillie, resigned from the company at the end of March, but a new report today offers some insight into his departure.

Balsillie was working on radically …

RIM’s BBM Music app finally goes live, emphasizes song sharing

Research in Motion has finally launched its BBM Music app out of beta, giving its BlackBerry users a social way to listen to music on their devices, the company announced Wednesday.

RIM first showed-off its new BBM Music app back …

RIM introduces BlackBerry music service with social twist

Research in Motion on Thursday launched a streaming music service inside of its popular BlackBerry Messenger app.

RIM has been struggling lately to show that it’s committed to fighting against the gains of Google Android and Apple iOS with full …

BlackBerry Messenger blamed for fueling London riots, RIM cooperating

BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion said Monday evening that it will cooperate after police said BlackBerry Messenger played an instrumental part in coordinating the violent rioting and looting in London during the past few days.

In a statement to VentureBeat, RIM …