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RIM keeps quiet on BBX release date
October 19, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Hot on the heels of the BlackBerry blackout , smartphone maker RIM has announced its next-generation operating system, BBX. RIM founder, president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took to the stage at the BlackBerry Developer conference in San Francisco to announce all the latest from RIM. While many techhies and developers anticipated an announcement about the poorly-selling PlayBook, what they got instead was a promise of a forthcoming operating system. Essentially, the QNX platform that powers the PlayBook will now also power BlackBerry devices. The next-generation mobile platform will take the best features from BlackBerry and the QNX platform – combining them to create a sleek new operating system. RIM also announced developer tool updates, including WebWorks for BlackBerry, the Native SDK for the PlayBook tablet, along with a developer beta version of PlayBook OS 2.0 – which will specifically give support for Android applications. Though RIM announced BBX at the developers conference in San Francisco, the operating system is still in development and will not yet be released to users or developers. Ultimately, Lazaridis stayed quiet about when users might expect to see BBX on their phones. In fact – BlackBerry Developers Conference lacked any concrete details about release dates or any tangible preview of the product itself, though Lazaridis touted the platform to those gathered
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RIM keeps quiet on BBX release date
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Amazon may be eyeing Palm following Fire launch
September 29, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
There is currently much talk about Amazon buying Palm from HP to use the operating system in its Kindle tablet. Venturebeat reported a close source as saying the online retail giant is very close to securing a deal, although no comment has been made from either company involved. Amazon’s latest Kindle venture, the Kindle Fire tablet computer, was launched Wednesday and has been deemed by several industry analysts to be a potential home for a revamped version of Palm’s webOS software. “The Kindle Fire is powered by Android, but it’s been heavily customised by Amazon to the point where you can barely tell,” said VentureBeat’s Devindra Hardawar. “By purchasing the remnants of Palm, Amazon would have free rein to redesign webOS to its own liking, and it would be able to further differentiate its Kindle devices from the slew of Android tablets in the market.” HP has all but abandoned its web hardware business due to the failure of its TouchPad tablet, but the software itself still has potential and could power another device. The multi-tasking abilities of the Palm have been praised and could help expand the feature set of the Kindle. Additionally, experts weighed in that webOS handled movies, games and media much more efficiently than the Android software on the TouchPad. HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion in 2010, however it will probably only receive a fraction of that amount if Amazon buys it due to the TouchPad failure.
