Research in Motion has a solid challenger to their Blackberry Messenger platform now with the arrival of Facebook Messenger on the App World.
Facebook has offered their Messenger application through their website for a while now but this is the
Tungle developers have announced in a blog post that they are shutting down their standalone service later this year.
Tungle would go offline on December 3. They are recommending users to check out Doodle as a replacement platform in case they
It is not yet confirmed if Nokia Lumia 920/820 would go on sale through Verizon yet. But the company has confirmed their intent to launch at least one BlackBerry 10 smartphone when they arrive early next year.
Research in Motion has not been making
Gist has announced that they are going to shut down their web app next month.
The company was acquired by Research in Motion last year and the developers are now working on enhancing the technologies powering the Blackberry platform.
Gist
Research in Motion has said in a statement that they are considering the possibility of licensing their Blackberry 10 platform to other manufacturers.
The company said:
QNX is already licensed across the automotive sector --we could do that
Research in Motion has admitted that they considered switching to Android mobile platform for their devices.
The company said:
We took the conscious decision not to go Android. If you look at other suppliers’ ability to differentiate,
The New York Times has discontinued their mobile app for the Blackberry platform.
The newspaper company said that the app did not have enough users to justify further development.
Blackberry users would now have to rely on the mobile web app
Research in Motion is expected to launch a 4G edition of their Blackberry Playbook this month.
Blackberry Playbook has not been a success for the company. We have already seen RIM selling it at heavy discounts to clear old stocks.
The 4G edition
Twitter has updated their mobile app for the Blackberry platform.
The latest version now feature support for right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
Twitter has also added support for image previews of photos hosted on their own platform.
Research in Motion has confirmed that they are adding video calling feature to their Blackberry Messenger platform in the next release of Blackberry OS.
This means that RIM is going to have a competing technology for Apple FaceTime and Google+
