DataViz

Google’s Andy Rubin Gives a Flash of Tablet Future

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm PT

Taking the stage to kick off D: Dive into Mobile, Google’s Andy Rubin gave a glimpse of Android 3.0 running on a prototype Motorola tablet. That was the icing on a pastry-laden talk filled with Gingerbread, Froyo and Honeycomb.

Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets

John Paczkowski in Mobile on September 7, 2010 at 2:28 pm PT

Research In Motion has indeed acquired software developer DataViz–well, most of it anyway. Confirming an earlier report at CrackBerry.com, RIM said it had snapped up the developer of Documents To Go–one of Apple’s best-selling apps of 2009–along with much of the talent that developed it.

BlackBerry Bold Is Big, Bulky And Beautiful

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm PT

Change is a familiar concept in the mobile-phone industry. Most recently, Apple and Google introduced mobile devices with two vital innovations: They run on fast 3G networks and use touch screens. Yesterday Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, brought out a device that goes halfway: the BlackBerry Bold, which runs on AT&T’s 3G network, but doesn’t have a touch screen.