It wasn't long ago we reported about a UK student getting stabbed and killed over his stolen BlackBerry device. Now, we have a case where a teenage girl got punched in the face and her BlackBerry stolen by her assaulter. I'm sure these types of crimes happen more often than we hear ...

Barkada: n. barkada(s) is Filipino street slang means a group of friends or a gang of youth.

Following up on the BlackBerry Flash Mob dance (see video below) at the SM Mall of Asia Atrium last December 7, 2012, RIM has posted up a video ...

Now this is cool. Rogers, CIBC, and RIM have teamed up to release Canada's first NFC magazine ad with the proud support of Crosscliq. What is it exactly? Well, this magazine actually has an NFC tag in it, that when a BlackBerry with NFC enabled (i.e. Bold 9900) is held up to it, ...

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It's not only a new year, but obviously a new month as well. So with January rolling around, the BlackBerry Blog announced January 2013's Fan of Month, Arisham! Continuing with the new international trend, Arisham hails from Kuala Lumpur and is obviously a hardcore BlackBerry fan. ...

Our friend Joey Sanders found an interesting piece while checking out the Fox News channel. One of the contributors to the network, Tobin Smith, was on the record saying that he predicts RIM stock will come up big in 2013 at $30. That's more than double than what the $11.47/share the stock ...

We had been hearing about this Curve coming for a while, and now it's official. RIM and T-Mobile have announced the BlackBerry Curve 9315. It's the standard entry device and it's rocking OS 7.1. The Curve will be available on January 23rd online and in stores. Check out the press release ...

Support for BBM 7 has finally come to those BlackBerry users who are running older operating systems (OS 4.5 and 5.0). When we told you about BBM 7 leaving beta back on December 10th, BBM 7 was only available for OS 6, 7 and 7.1. RIM promised that early in the new year that they would ...

InterDigital has extended their licenses to RIM to include 4G patents which including LTE and LTE-Advanced from the previous patents. Looks like this deal will also be multi-year, so I'm hoping that no issues arise on the legal side of things. InterDigital is a powerhouse when it ...

RIM is staying in tune with the weekly BlackBerry Messenger animated avatars as we progress ever so closer to the BlackBerry 10 launch event on Jan 30th. Now that we are only 4 weeks away, RIM has created a nice looking "4 Weeks To BlackBerry 10" avatar, ...

A British student, 17 year old Dogan Ismail, was stabbed and killed this past Sunday over his BlackBerry phone, and the murder suspect is 15 year old boy. Dohan (above), along with his little brother Orhan, had gone to retrieve his stolen BlackBerry when they were confronted by a group ...

The FCC has just approved a BlackBerry 10 device that runs on AT&T's network. We reported just a few days ago that two mystery devices arrived on the FCC radar, awaiting approval. The first approved device runs on the same type of network AT&T uses for its' 4G LTE devices. ...

Research In Motion today filed a patent with the USPTO to help fight what RIM calls "inconspicuous use of cameras on handheld mobile communication devices." Basically what RIM is doing is keeping people's private moments private. Their patent "extends the normal camera-taking ...

With 2013 finally under way, the BlackBerry community has a great year ahead of it. The launch of BlackBerry 10 is only 29 days away and it's sure to be amazing. Looking back, 2012 was a pretty cool year though. It was a year of transition in the BlackBerry world. At times, it was exciting, pessimistic, revealing, and pretty much any other adjective you can think of. 2012 was all about BlackBerry 10 and building up momentum towards the launch in 2013. Here are our top stories of 2012!

January

Research In Motion started off the year by announcing OS 7.1 for current BlackBerry 7 devices. OS 7.1 brought with it Mobile Hotspot, WiFi calling/UMA support, BlackBerry Tag (NFC), and FM Radio support for BlackBerry Curves.

A big shake up followed on January 22nd, when RIM co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, stepped down from their executive positions and were replaced by Thorsten Heins, who had served as COO.

February

New BlackBerry "Be Bold" commercials hit the airwaves. The Martinez' brothers famous tagline at the end of their commercial would become a pretty common phrase BlackBerry lovers would repeat. "We want tools, not toys."

PlayBook OS 2.0 dropped at around 5am on February 21st as predicted. We celebrated the days leading up to it on Twitter with the hashtag #TwosDay, which became so popular, VP of Dev Relations, Alec Saunders and BlackBerry's official account used it.

March

In a huge showing ...