BlackBerry

Research in Motion (RIM) yesterday unveiled its new flagship smartphone – Torch 9800 – and revamped operating system – BlackBerry 6 – in an effort to better compete with the iPhone and Android devices, but analysts believe the move is not quite a big enough leap to place it ahead of rivals.

Research In Motion and Samsung are both believed to be readying tablet devices, to reach the market before the end of 2010

RIM is expected to unveil its latest touchscreen 9800 BlackBerry next Tuesday.

RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones were made available to consumers in China for the first time on Friday, after Digital China Holdings Ltd. launched retail sales

British bank Standard Chartered is replacing the BlackBerry, currently its standard corporate communications device, with the iPhone

Research In Motion released updated tools on Tuesday to make it easier and faster for developers to create feature-rich Web and wireless applications to be used on the company's BlackBerry smartphones.