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 Kodak hasn’t caught a break lately, and that trend isn’t easing up any time soon with a second rejection arriving in its main International Trade Commission (ITC) patent dispute with Apple and RIM. . . . → Read More: ITC says again that Apple and RIM don’t violate Kodak patent  Canadians sometimes can’t catch a break: while NFC payments have been relatively common for Americans , Europeans and certainly the Japanese , Canucks have had to largely make do paying with ye olde credit carde. . . . → Read More: Rogers and CIBC make joint deal for NFC mobile payments in Canada, let you check out with your BlackBerry  Gartner’s latest dispatch reveals a wobbly global trade in mobile phones. Although our love of smartphones continued to blossom, with sales of that subcategory up nearly 45 percent, it wasn’t enough to stave off a two percent overall decline compared to the same quarter in 2011. A total of 419.1 million handsets were sold, representing the first hiccup after nearly three years of growth and leading analysts to point fingers at a slow down in the Asia / Pacific region as well as a lack of product launches at the start of the year . . . → Read More: Gartner: mobile phone sales fell two percent last quarter, Samsung confirmed as numero uno  By now, the crew in Waterloo have likely piqued your interest in what’s to come for the world of BlackBerry. So far, we’ve gotten to see the company’s developer handset , along with a few screenshots of the BlackBerry 10 software. One element that’s remained elusive up until this point, however, was the home screen itself . . . → Read More: BlackBerry 10 home screen and launcher officially previewed by RIM  RIM’s latest on-screen keyboard effort may bear a passing resemblance to Swiftkey , but it also has us itching to see how the rest of the BlackBerry 10 UI will turn out. It looks like we’re not the only ones, as Octopus Keyboard aims to bring the same slick prediction interface to jailbreaking iOS users. . . . → Read More: BlackBerry 10′s predictive keyboard gets transplanted with Octopus Keyboard for jailbroken iOS devices  Looks like RIM is more interested in fuel cell technology than we thought: the BlackBerry maker has just applied for two closely related patents for including a fuel cell in an electronic device, one for the frame and one for the fuel tank itself. Although the primary aim of either patent is to show how to fit a fuel cell into the tight space of a mobile gadget, they do show a more rectangular and modern device chassis than the last patent we saw, which had more than a slight whiff of the classic BlackBerry about it. Neither application is necessarily a roadmap for the future, and they don’t mean your next BlackBerry smartphone will need top-ups of lighter fluid or methanol every few weeks. . . . → Read More: RIM continues its fuel cell streak, applies for two more patents  Listen up, maggots. Fresh off all the recent hoopla surrounding BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has approved the use of six BlackBerry models on its networks. . . . → Read More: Sir, yes, sir: BlackBerry 7 smartphones get DoD approval  And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest mobile sites found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Mobile Nations was born — to provide the coverage no generic tech blog could provide! Through the years, their roster has prospered, changing several times, but their glory has never been denied! Heed the call, then—for now, the Mobile Nations ASSEMBLE! BlackBerry World 2012 Our sibling site, Crackberry.com did a fantastic job covering BlackBerry World 2012 . Head on over there to read all about it, or check out reading list below for Kevin Michaluk’s round up . . . → Read More: Editor’s desk: BlackBerry and Samsung events, rumor repeats, the Avengers, and more  . . . → Read More: About that new BlackBerry 10 keyboard  Impressed by the new camera tech on display in BB10 ? You’re not alone. . . . → Read More: Does BlackBerry 10′s camera app get by with a little help from Scalado Rewind? |
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