The deadline has passed for T-Mobile and Motorola to respond to Senator Al Franken’s Carrier IQ questionnaire , and both companies’ reports are in. We’ll first tackle T-Mobile’s letter: the carrier stated that it began installing CIQ last August, and nearly 450,000 Android and BlackBerry devices are infested with the IQ Agent software , which is used for individual troubleshooting cases and marketing purposes. This is a more moderate use than Sprint or AT&T, which both mentioned that it was actively pinging their CIQ-enabled phones to collect data on service and wireless performance on their networks . . . → Read More: T-Mobile, Motorola respond to Senator Franken’s Carrier IQ questions
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 If you’re a BlackBerry user and you’ve been waiting for a music service that’s just a bit more compelling than BBM Music, then you may be in luck — emphasis on the “may.” Spotify for BlackBerry was officially released today , but you’ll only be able to use it under some specific circumstances. According to Spotify’s blog, the newly released app will only work for users with the following BlackBerrys: the Bold 9780, Bold 9700, Curve 9300, Bold 9000, and the Curve 8520. . . . → Read More: Spotify For BlackBerry Officially Released, Only Supports Old Hardware  According to those all-knowing “people with knowledge,” Research in Motion could’ve been cut down to a single CEO company — that is, if Amazon would’ve pushed through with its purported takeover wishes. Based on a new Reuters report, the same company shipping out your grandmother’s holiday gifts was hot-to-trot on the idea of buying RIM , but those desires seemingly cooled after the BlackBerry maker decided that it’d rather “fix its problems on its own.” Wildly enough, the report states that an investment bank was hired earlier this summer “to review a potential merger with RIM,” but no formal offer was ever extended. Of course, it’s not atypical to hear of Amazon buying unusual assets — it’s snapped up everything from a touchscreen startup to a UK-based movie streaming and rental service — and sources have affirmed that “other kinds of commercial partnerships” could still be in the cards. . . . → Read More: Amazon reportedly considered a RIM purchase, ‘commercial partnership’ still on the table  Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. . . . → Read More: Refresh Roundup: week of December 12, 2011  This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of December 12, 2011: Continue reading Mobile Miscellany: week of December 12, 2011 Mobile Miscellany: week of December 12, 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:26:00 EDT . . . → Read More: Mobile Miscellany: week of December 12, 2011  Some unfortunate news was revealed for those BlackBerry addicts who’ve waited patiently for a QNX-based smartphone from RIM. The company’s co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis , reports that, due to a critical chipset that’s not expected to be available in production quantity until mid-next year, we’re unlikely to see a BlackBerry 10 device emerge until late in 2012. We know, ouch . . . . → Read More: RIM: BlackBerry 10 smartphones won’t arrive until end of 2012  NPD just published its latest plotting of the great American smartphone OS rivalry, and although the report covers annual rather than quarterly trends, it’s perhaps more interesting to hold it up against the previous set of figures we saw — those for Q2 2011 . Back then, Google’s OS had a 52 percent share, but these new figures suggest a marginally better performance of 53 percent between January and October. Meanwhile, iOS’s 29 percent share is identical to what we saw in Q2, hinting that its growth has slowed right down or even stopped . . . → Read More: Android leads US market share, iOS may have stopped growing, RIM is still falling  It’s not the first time that RIM’s security measures have caused a bit of an inferiority complex , but the Indonesian government now is threatening to ban BIS and BBM services within the nation if it doesn’t get its way. Partially, it seems that Indonesian officials are upset that Research in Motion will be building its new data centers in Singapore, rather than in the homeland . . . → Read More: Indonesian government threatens to ban BlackBerry services if it can’t spy on users  Die-hard fans of RIM’s mobile efforts should put those BBX tattoo plans on hold, as the US Federal Court has blocked the company from using the BBX trademark, favoring the existing use by BASIS International for its software. As a result, the boys from Waterloo just announced at BlackBerry DevCon Asia that the new name for its next phone OS is BlackBerry 10 (and the Roman numeral for 10 is.. . . . → Read More: RIM loses BBX trademark battle, next OS is named BlackBerry 10  Numbers, numbers, numbers. . . . → Read More: ComScore: Android continues to boom, RIM and Microsoft decline |
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