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Research in Motion (RIMM) slashed its guidance on Thursday after quarterly profit dropped, saying that it would slash jobs as rivals mount pressure on the smartphone maker.

Blackberry maker RIM’s first tablet PC, the PlayBook is officially launched on Thursday in UK, which may give a tough competition to Apple’s iPad 2, especially over the starting price tag.

Tablet PCs are the frenzy currently and you might be bombarded with the shiny displays of latest and greatest tablets, but if you do not have any business purpose, how useful is the gadget to you?

Starbucks announced that it plans to extend its popular mobile payment app into the Android market, signaling a power shift in the mobile OS war in Google's favor.

Representative Anthony Weiner's claims he didn't use his congressional Blackberry to send salacious photographs and text messages may not be the only thing the House Ethics Committee is investigating.

There are a few existing online storage and data syncing services that are providing online file storage, and the necessary tools and apps to keep everything synced. But because of the entry of Apple iCloud into their territory, they may have cause for concern.

Apple's new mobile operating system iOS 5 could be the magic tonic the technology giant needs to help it beat Google Ice Cream Sandwich - the new ambitious Android OS.

A no show by iPhone 5 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011 could turn out to big a big miscarriage, marking a tectonic shift in Smartphone race favoring rival Android-based phones.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Micromet, Verigy, Harbin Electric, Zipcar, Lululemon Athletica, and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Diana Containerships, Life Partners Holdings, LM Ericsson Telephone, SIRIUS XM Radio, Research In Motion, and Vodafone Group.

Caris & Co. said Kindle is a multi-billion dollar opportunity for Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). Kindle can generate revenue in excess of $5.48 billion and $1.20 billion in gross profit in 2011, while the brokerage expects at least $8.64 billion in revenue and $2.11 billion in gross profit by 2012.

Apple Inc., manufacturer of iPhone and iPad, officially decided to block apps that encourage drunk driving.

For the last year, we've seen the Blackberry and Android tablets and heard rumors of an armada of other tablets preparing to blow the iPad out of the water, but the ones that managed to make it to the market have fallen short due to a number of reasons.

Hewlett-Packard is set to enter the tablet race and compete with Apple's iPad by the official arrival of its TouchPad on July 1 in the United States.

After seeing a huge rush in the tablet market, HP TouchPad has finally been heard of entering the growing market after a long silence since its announcement in February this year

Apple updates its guidelines to prohibit DUI checkpoint evasion apps.

Apple's new iOS 5 operating system was not to be released for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch until 2011 fall. But apparently a backdoor was left open, where one eager beaver from Turkey has figured out how to install iOS 5 without a developer account.

The iOS 5 has ushered in a key feature which spells doom for RIM's BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) which could unleash an exodus of users from the BlackBerry camp - primarily college students.

Apple could leverage its data center to offer mobile application hosting and cloud infrastructure services to application developers, enterprises and advertisers.

Apple launched its much-anticipated iCloud service, released iOS 5 and unveiled Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS X, which is the technology giant's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Mobile online payments and analytics company Bango is now processing Blackberry App store payments in numerous markets and several currencies.