BlackBerry maker RIM’s official line has been that it is not for sale, but this week, persistent rumors that it could get bought anyway got another fillip, in the form of a report that the handset maker has hired Goldman Sachs to advise it.

Taking a page from its search counterparts in the East and West like Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Russia’s Yandex has scooped up a mobile software company, SPB Software, to grow its mobile offerings. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Considering all the issues and upheavals that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has had in its core business of mobile phones—what with the declining market share, abandoned operating systems, and subsequent switch to a once-competing-but-equally-struggling platform—it’s no surprise that tablets have been absent from the company’s device line-up. Now, it looks like…

Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…

Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has made no secret of its interest to be a more central player in the mobile space and now it’s showing us the money, too. The company has announced that it is buying Israel-based mapping and location-based services company Telmap. The move comes as there are signs…

Yesterday, we wrote that Intel was reportedly looking to take its MeeGo OS project into a new stage of collaboration post-Nokia’s move to Windows Phone, by partnering with the folks behind the Limo Foundation—namely Samsung, its most prominent member. Today, we now know what that new venture will be called:…

Android phones featuring Intel (NSDQ: INTC) chips should be available in the first half of 2012, Intel executives said on Tuesday at its annual developer conference in San Francisco.

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Google agreed to pay 33 percent more—$3 billion—than it originally offered for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility to get the deal done at $12.5 billlion: were patents the driver? (Motorola Mobility’s SEC Filing)

Yesterday, when NPD released its latest figures for mobile phone sales in the U.S., they showed that Google’s Android saw huge growth over the last year. Yet Motorola (NYSE: MMI)—one of Android’s biggest supporters, and itself a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) acquisition target—was losing ground. That prompted us to ask NPD…

If the rankings you see of most popular apps—and the IPO filing from mobile and social gaming giant Zynga and Tapjoy‘s recent $30 million round—didn’t already tell the story for you, Nielsen has spelled it out a bit more: games are the most popular category for mobile content. Figures released…

If you can’t quite understand why it is that Symbian is still continuing to occupy a strong position in the overall worldwide smartphone market rankings—despite all of Nokia’s problems, and despite its near absence in particular markets like the U.S.—look no further than Spain.

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference just wrapped up, having confirmed some surprises and not-so surprises. As expected, the company unveiled its new OS X Lion, new iOS 5 and iCloud. Read our coverage for the full details below (and sift through our WWDC archive). View the keynote on Apple.com.

As the number of apps, and the amount of investment in apps, both continue to grow, startups that focus on optimizing how they are created and distributed are getting a lot of attention from the investment community, too. The latest example of this is the Dutch-based Service2Media—a develop-once, deploy-everywhere provider—which…

It feels like we just saw the coming attraction for an intriguing movie that won’t be released until sometime next year. Windows 8’s slick touch user interface drew oohs and ahs from a crowd not usually known for liking Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) but the closest we got to an ETA…

Well, at least some of the speculation is now officially over: today Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced that it will be kicking off its annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference next week with details not only about its new operating systems for iOS and Mac, but—for the first time—it has also confirmed that…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details on the Foxconn factory explosion; reports of a curvaceous future for the iPhone; ‘rooted’ Android devices barred from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Movies service; Paramount launches full-length movie apps for Windows Phone 7; and BlackBerry Partners Fund invests…

Lodsys, the company that has made legal threats against a number of independent iOS developers around their implementation of payments services for their apps, has now published some questions and answers with more info for those interested. Meanwhile, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has still not made any public statements related to…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still a ways behind companies like Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when it comes to overall mobile market share, but it’s a veritable juggernaut when it comes to market cap, and so too, it seems, when it comes to brand value: the company today got named…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reportedly to start over-the-air OS updates; HP (NYSE: HPQ) beefs up execs for WebOS outside the U.S.; another report outlining Android’s dominance in market share; more interested parties for Nortel’s patents.