Author Archives: New York Times

OTTAWA — Research in Motion unveiled Tuesday morning the new BlackBerry 10 phone and operating system that the company hopes will be its salvation, in a form that looked quite rough around the edges. Among the features missing on the prototype phones… Continue reading →

OTTAWA — Research in Motion unveiled Tuesday morning the new BlackBerry 10 phone and operating system that the company hopes will be its salvation, in a form that looked quite rough around the edges. Among the features missing on the prototype phones… Continue reading →

Foursquare has in-house engineers working on iPhone, Android and BlackBerry versions of its service. But had Microsoft not offered to pay an outside company to do the work, Mr. Leudorf said Foursquare would “probably not” have developed an app for … Continue reading →

American and Delta offer apps for the broadest range of devices: the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Windows phones. Southwest has apps for all of them except Windows, and United and Continental offer apps for iPhones and Androids.See all stories on th… Continue reading →

BARCELONA — Nokia and Microsoft on Monday announced plans to accelerate the sale of smartphones running Windows software by adding a cheaper version to their lineup and dramatically expanding the sales network around the world.See all stories on this… Continue reading →

Some use the time to catch up on e-mail or beat the BrickBreaker high score on their BlackBerry. But there is another option: exploring the local sights. And Web sites and smartphone applications have made that a lot easier. Alana Hoskin Smith works ….. Continue reading →

Last weekend, I was driving home when my BlackBerry buzzed with a text message from a Korean-American friend from my church: “You watching J Lin tearing it up?” I texted back, “Really??” He filled me in: “25 pts, 5 reb, 7 assists, 2 steals.Se… Continue reading →

SMARTPHONE applications for travelers promise to organize your trip and to help you find attractions with a tap of the touchscreen. But do they deliver while you're on the road, or stuck at the gate? Reviews of four apps, below, detail whether they… Continue reading →

The iPhone has taken a big bite out of the BlackBerry in a market where the older phone once dominated: business customers in North America. Meanwhile, in Europe, Samsung is poised to do the same to Research in Motion, BlackBerry's maker, …See al… Continue reading →

FORGET the Union — what's the state of the BlackBerry? Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, sent its co-chief executives packing last week and replaced them with Thorsten Heins, who had been RIM's chief operating o… Continue reading →