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 December 7th, 2011 by lhaas
Following up on our earlier post, the researchers who successfully jailbroke the RIM PlayBook have posted detailed instructions on how it can be done:
One of the researchers, known as Neuralic, posted the walkthrough to Pastie.org Tuesday morning. In order to begin the process, a PlayBook user need to first install the beta [...]
December 5th, 2011 by lhaas
Blackberry’s RIM PlayBook is the latest to fall to the sport of jailbreaking. The researchers have released a video demonstrating the jailbreak and state that they will be releasing a tool publicly.
A group of researchers is claiming that they’ve found a root exploit that enables them to jailbreak the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet [...]
November 15th, 2011 by lhaas
Google to stop providing Gmail app for Blackberry:
Beginning November 22, 2011, we will end support for the Gmail App for BlackBerry (installed native app). Over this past year, we’ve focused efforts on building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser and will continue investing in this area.
Users may continue to [...]
October 12th, 2011 by lhaas
California joins George and Florida in allowing mobile devices to be searched after a violation has occurred. In the California incident, the mobile phone was turned on during an inventory search of a car and a photo of a gun was displayed. The CA appeals court made a ruling in this case purely [...]
August 16th, 2011 by lhaas
There are remotely and easily exploitable vulnerabilities in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server that could allow an attacker to gain access to the server by simply sending a malicious image file to a user’s BlackBerry device.
The vulnerabilities are in several version of BES for Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise, and Research in [...]
July 7th, 2011 by lhaas
Google “Biggest Loser” in bid for Nortel patents:
When Google first made the “stalking-horse” bid on the Nortel patent portfolio in early April, it was all but assumed that they would push hard and win the rights to the patents. They were hardly the only bidder — RIM and Apple were definitely involved [...]
July 7th, 2011 by lhaas
There’s no question Research In Motion is in the midst of a major transitional period. The company is planning to launch a brand new product line based on a brand new operating system within the next 12 months, and even though the first device born out of RIM’s new QNX OS was impressive [...]
July 5th, 2011 by lhaas
Recent study shows that Android devices are more susceptible to hardware problems than other types of mobile devices:
The study, conducted by WDS, found that 14 percent of all technical support calls for Android devices could be traced to a hardware fault, versus 3.7 percent for RIM BlackBerry, 8 percent for iPhones and [...]
July 1st, 2011 by lhaas
Mobile app developers are backing away from the RIM platform. RIM seems to be addressing the problem; the new ONX-based OS powering the PlayBook tablet will support Android apps. But will it be too late by the time this is released in 2012?
Christian Zibreg over at 9to5Mac suggests that “RIM’s luck could [...]
May 17th, 2011 by lhaas
SAN FRANCISCO – BlackBerry smartphone maker Research In Motion Ltd. has recalled about 1,000 of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computers due to defective operating software that can make it impossible for users to set up the device.
The Waterloo, Ontario-based gadget maker said in a statement Monday that it learned that the affected [...]
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