More RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) news coming down the wires about yet another acquisition: the BlackBerry handset maker is said to be in talks to buy Gist, an app that manages a person’s professional contacts in a “social inbox” style.

BlackBerry was once, and not that long ago, synonymous with the word smartphone. Nearly single-handedly, it spearheaded the revolution in mobile data, driving a legion of people to use their devices for more than phone calls and SMS. But lately it’s starting to feel like BlackBerries, and their maker RIM…

BlackBerry and its manufacturer RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) had a little boost of confidence the other week from some figures that indicated that in the U.S. BlackBerries were used more to consume mobile Internet data than other smartphones such as iPhone and Android devices. But now some further numbers have emerged…

Virgin Media has yet to go commercial on an all-you-can-eat music service it announced way back in June 2009, but it is still forging ahead with a separate strategy to sell music via mobile. Monday will see the launch of a new free app, which the quad-play provider created with…

It may not be too much of a stretch to suspect iPhone users are some of the highest spending folks in the market. But compared to those using other devices, they actually bring in less money to their operators. A fascinating bit of number crunching from Pageonce, which develops personal…

And now, some gaming news for the BlackBerry owners. Mobile social gaming firm SocialDeck just released Shake & Spell for the BlackBerry, creating its first game that shares info across Facebook, the iPhone and the RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) device. The game initially launched on the iPhone and Facebook last year;…

On Tuesday, BlackBerry owners were able to start buying and downloading applications after Research In Motion launched its highly anticipated application storefront. Immediately after, the handset-maker started making 20 percent of each transaction, while developers got the remaining 80 percent. The carriers? Nothing. Zilch. Nada. The proliferation of app stores…

RIM’s President and Co-Chief Mike Lazaridis briefly took the stage to tell us things we already know—that Research In Motion was launching its BlackBerry App World and that it was sponsoring U2’s upcoming tour. Focus on music: Clearly, music is a focus for BlackBerry. Not only is it sponsoring U2’s…

Research In Motion issued a press release this morning, saying that the BlackBerry App World can now be downloaded by users. It’s available by visiting www.blackberry.com/appworld from your BlackBerry. Features include: the ability to search by keyword and category; user reviews; a top downloads area, and My World, which shows…

At Mobile World Congress in February, one of the prevalent topics was application storefronts for the mobile phone. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) wasn’t in attendance, but there was plenty of talk about mimicking its iTunes strategy. A month later, we are finding that the red-hot subject hasn’t cooled one bit. At…

Bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has launched a free electronic-reader application for BlackBerrys, citing consumer demand for the application. “BlackBerry users can use the device’s built-in browser to download the latest free e-Book reader. They will then have access to free e-books and can browse among more than 60,000 titles…

U2 said today that its upcoming 360 Tour, which will promote the album No Line On The Horizon, will be sponsored by Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. The announcement is coming as a shock to the technology world, which saw U2 and the band’s frontman Bono, as being partners with just…

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may want to widen its consumer base, but the price points in its new BlackBerry App World store shows that its still catering very much to the enterprise crowd. RIM has released pricing guidelines for it’s soon to be launched Blackberry App World applications store, and the…

Research In Motion launched a new website tonight, encouraging BlackBerry device owners to sign up for PayPal, so they will be ready to start downloading applications as soon as the handset-maker’s application storefront is open for business. The site, which went live at at 7 p.m. PST, said: “Coming soon!…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is not the only smartphone manufacturer having trouble in Japan—DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has halted sales of RIM’s BlackBerry Bold because “the phone can overheat while the battery is being recharged” reports Reuters. DoCoMo has sold about 4,000 Bold handsets, and about 30 users have complained about the…

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) not only had the most popular handset in the U.S. in December (the BlackBerry Curve), according to a survey by AvianResearch reported by RCR Wireless—it also had three of the 10 most popular handsets. The research company’s Monthly Retail Store Survey is based on responses from 100…

It’s becoming clearer by the quarter that most wireless operators simply don’t have a phone or user experience that can compete with the iPhone. The financial results reported by the top three U.S. carriers this past week offered the latest evidence, with AT&T (NYSE: T) being the exception: AT&T continued…

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has sold 1 million BlackBerry Storms since launching the handset on Nov. 21, spokesperson Brenda Raney told mocoNews. That’s quicker than the first iPhone, which took 74 days to sell a million handsets, but pales in comparison to the iPhone 3G, which sold 1 million in…

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) were pitting it as their iPhone killer, but the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm has sold only 500,000 units in its first month on sale, according to people familiar with the matter, the WSJ.com reports. Though it’s a “promising start” for the device which has…