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This has to be one of the coolest things that I’ve seen with the PlayBook so far.  Mobile Innovations, a Canadian company that specializes in using BlackBerry devices to enable law enforcement to be more mobile while still remaining connected to the tools they use, has released a demo of a police cruiser with a [...]

Just ahead of their quarterly call to investors, RIM released a press release with their results.  The big positive note in this release is that they have shipped approximately 500,000 PlayBook tablets since they released it almost two months ago.  No word on if this relates to how many PlayBooks are actually in customers’ hands [...]

  It seems that RIM has been on a real acquisition-spree of late, but this recent move may have started as a potential acquisition, but is now a partnership.  According to GigaOM, RIM is looking at hiring Ontario-based company YOU i Labs to help build the next BlackBerry user experience.  While YOU i Labs worked [...]

Over this past weekend, RIM released 1.5.0.2342 of their Tablet OS.  There is nothing really in this update except that it fixes a critical vulnerability in Flash that affect all systems that currently use it, not just the PlayBook.  The thing that I love about this update is that Adobe published this security advisory on [...]

Last night, RIM released a new version of BlackBerry News Feeds for their handhelds, and today they have released BlackBerry News for the PlayBook.  I’m not sure if they’re related or if the BlackBerry News team has just been buring the midnight oil recently.  Either way, both apps let you stay current with your news [...]

Early this morning, RIM released version 1.0.5.2304 of their QNX-based BlackBerry Tablet OS.  In rare fashio, RIM has released a list of updates and changes in the new release: Facebook for BlackBerry PlayBook — The first Facebook app optimized for tablets now comes preloaded and introduces new features including video uploading, message deletion, Facebook search [...]

This morning, RIM welcomed Scoreloop to the family.  For those of you who have never heard of Scoreloop before (myself included), they are a company that creates an SDK that allows for social gaming across iPhone and Android platforms.  Check out the description from their site and a quick video demo of Scoreloop in action [...]

Back in March, when I first got hands-on with the PlayBook, Ryan Bidan said to me that 7″ will not be the only size that RIM will make tablets in.  RIM has never been a one-size-fits-all device manufacturer, so it comes as no surprise that BGR is reporting that a 10-inch version of the PlayBook [...]

This was a big weekend for device leaks and videos.  First on the leak list for this week is the BlackBerry Curve 9360 (aka “Apollo”).  Tinhte.vn made a hands-on video and posted it yesterday.  The video isn’t in English, but everything seems to look nice and fluid. Because these things often come at the same [...]

There has been a lot of speculation in the past week about how well the PlayBook has been selling in the first month since it was released.  Originally, an RBC analyst estimated that RIM has sold 250,000 PlayBooks in the first month based on data coming from the sales channels.  On Friday, because news like [...]