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Shares of Research in Motion are at a yearly low. But they could recover with new Blackberry products. Or attract a bidder.

Luxury goods maker Pierre Cardin took a plunge into the tablet landscape with a 7-inch Android tablet under the moniker PC-7006.

According to research firm, International Data Corporation, Apple's sales of 20.3 million iPhones worldwide during the second quarter of 2011 helped the company secure 19.1 percent of the market share and lead all other vendors.

Here's more fodder for the iPhone 5 rumor mill: Word of an "ultra-thin" iPhone 5 was spread by a French Twitter user who posted online the picture of what he claims is Apple's upcoming smartphone.

In the fierce battle to rule the smartphone landscape, Google's Android platform has not only maintained, but extended its lead against Apple and others.

A recent survey from TeleNav takes a look at the dedication of smartphone users, the iPhone in particular.

Smartphones may have good looks and a lot of whiz-bang features, but this week they just have a bad reputation.

A recap of the feud that has developed between Google and Microsoft/Apple over patents.

Gartner predicts global mobile platforms will rise 11% but revenue nearly 23% in 2011

Mobile data revenue is expected to jump 23 percent this year thanks to increased usage of smartphones and tablets, as the number of global mobile connections passes 5 billion.

Research in Motion's release of five new BlackBerry smartphones won't do much to help the struggling company, says one analyst.

Top Canadian telecom company BCE Inc's quarterly adjusted earnings beat expectations on Thursday, helped by strength in its new media unit, but its wireless division paid heavily to grab customers in a cutthroat market.

GM Chevrolet Volt's key competitor in the electric-vehicle market Nissan has launched an app for Android and BlackBerry phones for its all-electric car Leaf.

Google Inc, fresh from losing a bid to buy thousands of patents from bankrupt Nortel, lashed out at its biggest rivals on Wednesday and accused them of banding together to block the Internet giant in the red- hot smartphone arena.

Today, Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to launch five new smartphones, which may give the iPhone and Android a run for their money.

Google said the reason Apple and Microsoft teamed up to buy patents is because they want to take out Android.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion introduced five new handsets that run on its new BlackBerry 7 mobile OS, in a bid to regain ground against rivals like Apple.

Continuous growth of smartphone market in the U.S. clearly reflects how people are attached to their cellphones, but a report from TeleNav shows how willing Americans are to compromise on other things in their life so that they can cling on to the handset.

RIM has announced a new smartphone based on the BlackBerry 7 operating system, called BlackBerry Bold 9900, and its CMDA version 9930. Motorola, HTC, LG with BlackBerry look-alikes pose challenge to Bold 9900

Teenage Britons are spending more and more time using smartphones to make calls, send texts and use social networking sites, and more than half of those that own the devices claim to be addicted to them, regulator Ofcom said on Thursday.

Data is increasingly pointing to two releases of the iPhone 5, Apple's next-generation smartphone, if Wall Street is to be believed, meaning one phone would come in the fourth quarter, and one shortly after.