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Big box retailer Best Buy has slashed up to $150 off the U.S. price tag for Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet computer for the Labor Day weekend.

Hewlett-Packard is all set once again for a final round of production of its TouchPad, though a Sterne Agee analyst says its “ confusing” as HP probably lost $200 per unit at $99 sale.

He may have been absent, but Roman Polanski made his presence felt at the Venice film festival on Thursday with his comedy Carnage, in which Oscar-winner Kate Winslet's projectile vomit prompted the biggest laugh.

There's a story you may have heard today. It's about Apple's iPhone 5, and how a prototype of the product supposedly got left in a bar. The story goes that an Apple employee left his prototype for the iPhone 5 in a tequila bar in San Francisco, since a similar situation happened with the iPhone 4 last year.

Research In Motion's head of developer relations, Mike Kirkup, has resigned, the latest in a string of departures as the BlackBerry maker seeks to claw back ground lost to Apple and Google.

Though Apple’s App Store has overtaken Android’s market in terms of the total number of apps, Android has defeated iOS by the number of free apps it offers.

Here are the top 10 copied features.

The launch of a string of well-received BlackBerry smartphones helped Research In Motion stock gain 6 percent on Tuesday and almost 50 percent since hitting a five-year low on August 8.

Research in Motion continued its stock price climb on Tuesday -- gaining close to 6 percent during trading.

The recent numbers show that there are over 30,000 apps available.

Samsung announced the ChatON service on Monday.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it would launch a mobile instant messaging tool in its latest push to attract more consumers to its handsets and challenge rivals such as Apple and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.

Leaked images of BlackBerry PlayBook’s newest version of operating system, 2.0, have been revealed.

Research In Motion (RIM) has finally announced the rumored and anticipated BBM Music service.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has announced that it will be joining the streaming music market with BBM Music that will be integrated with BlackBerry Messenger.

Shares of Research in Motion rose more than 2 percent on Thursday, after the BlackBerry maker unveiled a new cloud-based music service that allows users to share songs with other subscribers.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM.TO)(RIMM.O) is planning for its newer models of smartphones, expected next year, to run applications designed for Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android operating system, a Bloomberg report said, citing people familiar with the plan.

Canada's Research In Motion Ltd will unveil a new cloud-based social music sharing service called BBM Music, as companies begin to bet on entertainment delivered over the Internet that incorporates social networking features.

Korean electronics firm Samsung announced its new phone naming strategy and also released four new Android Gingerbread phones to underscore the event.

Flash mobs are becoming an increasingly terrifying phenomenon in many American cities. But they have been used as a tool of political protest for a decade, and text messaging and social media have helped people communicate in many significant instances.

AT&T's roadmap leak has put up a list of upcoming Android Gingerbread and Windows smartphones.