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RIM CEO shares his vision for BlackBerry's future

During an exclusive Q&A session with a bunch of journalists, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, excitedly stated "I want to provide a fantastic mobile computing engine" and essentially told us to hold on to our hats as "we are doing some exciting things with RIM in the next few months." Heins also confirmed he has established the ultimate management team that has his full trust and commitment and that contrary to earlier reports "RIM is not leaving the consumer business" and that his previous comments had been misconstrued. Read more...

Sony unveils Vaio T Ultrabook 

We've been swept away in a sea of Ultrabooks so far in 2012 we almost didn't believe that the Vaio T13 is actually Sony's first laptop that meets Intel's Ultrabook requirements. Sure, the specs aren't miles different to the masses of rivals it has to contend with but we're sure there's one or two die-hard Sony fans who've been waiting patiently for this announcement. Read more...

Spotify iPad app out now

It's been a long time coming, but Spotify's iPad app is finally available to download – trailing behind the Android tablet version, which has already been out for a while now. Read more...

Samsung Galaxy S3 vs iPhone 5

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is – very likely – set to be unveiled on 3 May. But Apple is busy beavering away in its Cupertino labs on the iPhone 5 – and rumoured specs and features are already starting to leak out. So how do the two hypothetical handsets stack up, based on what we know so far? Read more...

Amazon to take on iPhone with Kindle Phone? 

Amazon is the undisputed e-book reader champion of the world thanks to the Kindle – and it looks like the one-time used books peddler is moving into the smartphone fracas with a Kindle Phone. Analysts from Citigroup reckon that Amazon is already developing a Kindle Phone handset with Foxconn which will be ready for a late 2012 release, based on supply chain checks in Asia. Read more...

Need to know – BlackBerry 10 

Now that BB10 has been officially outed, CEO Thorsten Heins announced RIM has been "making incredible progress on BB10", as it continues its quest to take BlackBerry smartphones to the next level (and next decade). So not only is it a combination of BB6, 7 and the best of the QNX platform, but it has been built from the ground up to create "a revolutionary mobile computing engine", as opposed to just another smartphone OS. Read more...