Research in Motion

SAN FRANCISCO—Research In Motion Ltd. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced they are working together to provide the platform, products, services and tools for enterprise software developers to use Java technology …

WATERLOO, Ontario—The BlackBerry is going to Asia under a deal between the maker of the wireless e-mail and mobile-phone device, Research In Motion Ltd., and Hong Kong wireless carrier Hutchison …

LONDON—O2, Vodafone’s wireless unit, the first carrier to sell Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry wireless e-mail device in Europe, announced it has signed up more than 250 corporate customers for …

WATERLOO, Ontario—Research in Motion Ltd. and PrinterOn Corp. announced they will team to deliver and market PrinterOn’s wireless Internet printing application for BlackBerry, under the name PrinterOn PocketWhere for BlackBerry. …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Multimedia messaging continues to make waves in the wireless industry, as two major messaging companies today announced MMS products for both wireless carriers and corporate customers. Wireless Internet …

WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada—The adage, “keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer,” seems to fit the new business relationship Research In Motion (RIM) and Glenayre Electronics announced this week. …

WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. announced Canadian carrier Rogers AT&T Wireless will sell voice and data-integrated BlackBerry wireless devices for its GPRS network. The carrier deal is the latest in …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Palm Inc.’s new wireless integrated device, the i705, seems to have hit the shelves in consumer electronic retail stores Friday, but the company isn’t commenting one way or …

HAYWARD, Calif.—AvantGo Inc. announced it won its first patent, which covers technology for synchronizing content between a device and a server over a wireless network. AvantGo said the technology is …

RESTON, Va.—In a move to combine almost all of their popular business services and applications into one offering, Research In Motion Ltd., Nextel Communications and Motorola Inc. announced they will …

RESTON, Va.—Wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced plans to restructure its debt under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan the company filed with the Eastern District of Virginia Bankruptcy Court, a …

The personal digital assistant and wireless data device markets shook last week under a series of major announcements that served to puzzle, jar and-in most cases-hearten Wall Street and the …

Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world’s largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland …

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y.—Rovenet Inc. has released the latest version of its P-Fax software, which permits users of handheld computers to send, receive and, for the first time, view faxes on these …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—In a move to redirect Motorola Inc.’s two-way pager devices toward the business market and against Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry device, Notify Technology Corp. said it will …

NEW YORK—Mobilocity Inc. announced its has launched its Mobile First Step promotion, in conjunction with Research In Motion’s Blackberry Enterprise Edition, allowing executives to trial Blackberry e-mail service and to …

WATERLOO, Canada—A curious patent infringement suit has been filed against Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device. RIM said it learned of the complaint filed …

The wireless data industry started as a dream and a nationwide network almost 30 years ago. As the years slowly passed and people began to recognize the value of mobile …

HOBOKEN, N.J.—Advanced Systems Concepts released its ActiveBatch Wireless Client interface, which the company said improves remote server and application management support using Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry wireless device. “With …

WATERLOO, Canada—Research In Motion Ltd. announced earnings in line with many analyst expectations, but lowered its forecasts for the future due to a troubled economy, slow rollouts of GPRS networks …

HACKENSACK, N.J.—GoAmerica Inc. will provide wireless Internet service to all of Canadian wireless carrier Rogers AT&T Wireless’s GSM/GPRS subscribers, a move that greatly expands the relationship between the two companies …

TORONTO—RFID developer SAMSys Technologies Inc. has joined the Research In Motion BlackBerry Independent Software Vendors Alliance Program in hopes of integrating RIM’s BlackBerry solution with SAMSys’ multiprotocol, multi-frequency reader architecture. …

WCities Location-based information service provider WCities launched a geo-coded wireless service that provides location-specific information to individual users’ cell phones. According to Tan Rasab, the company’s chief executive officer, with …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—BitFlash extended its screen-scraping technology to include Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry device, a move the company said gives BlackBerry users the ability to view visually rich e-mail …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—BT Cellnet signed a licensing deal with Research In Motion (RIM) that enables it to launch a wireless e-mail service in Europe. The company said it plans to …