Showing posts with label BlackBerry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BlackBerry. Show all posts
Twitter for BlackBerry updated to version 4.0
A few weeks before the official launch of Blackberry 10, Twitter has not forgotten the existing installed base with updating its native application. And the gesture is not trivial since Twitter 4.0 for BlackBerry brings Finally, two functions launched a year ago by the micro-blogging site. First there is the Connect function that brings @ mentions, favorites, subscribers and retweet. The second function is synthesized Discover trends, suggestions for profiles to follow, tweets subscribers.
Newest, Moi tab that profiles, tweets sent, lists and favorites. Functions so already for several weeks in iOS and Android, but to prove that Twitter does not forget Blackberry ...
The application is available on the BlackBerry App World.
Analyst: BlackBerry losing market leadership in business customers
The companies buy the world "in droves" iPhones, cited the U.S. Computerworld an IDC analysis. The study distinguishes itself by the Company purchased and acquired by employees, but smartphones used for business purposes (keyword: Bring your own device - BYOD). In the latter, Android is ahead, the IDC predicts this year sell more than 87 million, while the acquisitions were estimated at around 15 million. By comparison, the consumer market, the analysts see by the end of 351 million Android devices go over the counter and 78.6 million iPhones.
Apple has also in the business use to settle for second place. Although with 31.1 million devices in the company purchases the number twice as high as that of Android smartphones, but come on BYOD rail together "only" 37.1 million iPhones.
Patent dispute: Nokia increases the pressure on RIM
Nokia increased in a patent dispute with the Canadian BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) the pressure. The Finns are trying to applications to three international courts to enforce arbitration of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The dispute concerns the licensing of patented techniques that belong to the WLAN standard 802.11. Nokia sues (vs Nokia. RIM, 12-cv-05992, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California), California, and in the UK and Canada.
According to Nokia, the two companies have closed with a 2003 and 2008 extended agreement provides mutual access to relevant standard mobile patents. RIM was of the view that this agreement also covers the controversial wireless patents and have therefore called the arbitration in Sweden.
BlackBerry PlayBook gets updated to v2.1 OS
With version 2.1, calendar, contacts and e-mails also run in an upright yet there was only one display in landscape mode. At the same time there is an update for the BlackBerry Bridge on the BlackBerry smartphone. So that SMS messages can now be edited directly on the PlayBook. Smartphone and tablet are posted in the same Wi-Fi network, the Bridge now works either via Wi-Fi rather than only via Bluetooth.
The Android player also receives an important update. So far only run Android applications in a single window, so can not switch to the PlayBook gestures. After updating each app runs in its own window. The API has been extended to allow Android apps now have access to the camera. Software vendors have the opportunity to provide additional services within the apps on BlackBerry App World, which was previously limited to native applications.
Microsoft licensed file system to RIM
The ailing Canadian BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has acquired by Microsoft the right to use the exFAT file system in its devices. A licensing agreement between the two companies allow RIM extensive access to the protected technology, Microsoft said Tuesday in Redmond.
The "Extended File Allocation Table" named file system is the successor to FAT32 as the universal file system for removable flash-based storage devices, such as those used in, among other smartphones. Thus among other things, the faster access to large audio and video files as well as a better exchange of files between different devices are possible.
On the stock market, the deal was seen as a good sign: the ailing RIM shares rose temporarily by more than two percent. The company is currently working on its next operating system BlackBerry 10 early next year to bring new devices to market. Currently, the smartphone pioneer is going through a lean period with decreasing market share and red.
GDC: BlackBerry will play
Ailing BlackBerry maker RIM has ambitions in the games industry, "I do not think we sell more devices than Android, but I believe we will generate more revenue than Android," explained Volker Hirsch, head of the newly created games department at RIM on Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC) in Cologne. With its lucrative platform App World, the manufacturer advertises that its developers created for iOS and Android apps provide even on the BlackBerry is available.
Turning to the games community is part of a change in strategy, which flows into the new operating system BlackBerry 10, which will be released in early 2013. Instead of focusing on corporate customers, RIM will now appeal to all audiences. "Even today, over 80 percent of our users no more business," said Hirsch. So many young people use in countries such as the UK communications service BBM as cheap SMS alternative. In the future, the communication channel be available for games.
The new platform should provide for app developers, especially game developers many benefits: support BlackBerry a variety of different development environments and open source components such as Lua and Qt, so that Android and iOS developer their applications as easy as possible for the BlackBerry can implement. To get a leg up on the games market, RIM had acquired last year the mobile social gaming provider Scoreloop.
However, given the attractiveness and growing market shares of competing platforms, it is difficult to convince RIM to developers of BlackBerry as a platform. The manufacturer tried summarily reinterpret its backlog in strengths: So the RIM advertises that apps are downloaded to the BlackBerry App World 40 percent more likely than the iTunes App Store - for BlackBerry but also with about 100,000 available apps only a fraction of the competition- platforms.
Moreover, the surplus for Android and iOS disadvantages for developers. So even successful apps lose on these platforms already after a short time a large part of their clientele BlackBerry however trumps with the high turnover per app: So BlackBerry users give each pay app with 3.80 euros from one euro more than the average for Android and iOS apps are paid. For the popular game Angry Birds on the BlackBerry $ 4.99 are due, for the iPhone, the game thanks to integrated advertising can be bought for 79 euro cents, for Android smartphones even free.
RIM fights from 147 million dollars in damages in patent dispute
The Canadian BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion (RIM) has successfully appealed against a ruling in patent dispute with the company Mformation appeal. The United States District Court of Northern California has decided, according to a RIM announcement that it had found no evidence of patent infringement. Thus, the court rejected the verdict of a jury by mid-July.
RIM now has to pay not ordered by the jury 147.2 million U.S. dollars in damages. Mformation may go against the verdict. If the company will be successful, but the jury's verdict reinstated, but a new trial due, it says in the statement.
The patent system was actually meant to drive innovation, says RIM chief prosecutor Steve Zipperstein. Often it will but used for other purposes. Many politicians were to become aware of this problem now, call the RIM the others to join them. Finally, this case was made aware that reforms were necessary to stop the waste of resources, by unwanted patent disputes. This Zipperstein obviously plays on political initiatives such as "Saving High-Tech Innovators from egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act" to. He states that would contribute to a process for IT-related patents is an inferior applicant to pay all court costs.
Mformation 2008 went to trial against RIM. Specifically, it was about that BlackBerry devices and related software illegally in U.S. Patent 6,970,917 (System and method for remote control and management of wireless devices) and 7,343,408 (System and method for wireless data terminal management using telecommunication signaling network will be used). The two patents were filed in August, respectively, in December 2001 and in November 2005 and March 2008 has been assigned.
Mformation had argued since the late 1990s to innovate in the field of management for mobile devices have been active - and long before the market had become aware of its importance. The patents are a key component of innvativen Mformation products and essential device management on the market today
Zeus Trojan attacks intensified on mTANs
The procedure is basically still the same as its predecessors: the starting point of an infection of the smartphone is infected with the Zeus Trojan (Windows) PC. The discharged into the open for online banking web site, for example, type a message that would have to secure the smartphones where new certificates will be installed. The alleged certificates or security updates are available via download or even sent directly via MMS to the phone number entered by the user. Once installed on the phone directs the Trojans secretly, but the app SMS messages with the mTANs of a number abroad continue, with the current versions in Sweden.
The new Trojan versions for Android and Blackberry - Kaspersky speaks of "Zeus in the Mobile," short ZitMo - apparently serve mainly to the systematic development of the functionality. Still it lags slightly behind the Android version that Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry behind (an iPhone counterpart has not been sighted). It shall not appear to selectively mTAN only the messages of the bank, but all text message to the Lord and Master more
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