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• Motorola, RIM settle lawsuits

  
  Motorola and Research in Motion have come to a settlement that will end all pending litigation between them, the companies announced Friday.

• Google Maps for BlackBerry gets a boost

  Got a BlackBerry for your business? Getting around is about to get a lot easier.

• Woman sues Google because of bad directions

  One day I was using my cell phone's GPS service to find the nearest Target. I was driving down the road when suddenly my cell phone piped up, "Turn right here." I looked to the right. There was no road, just a tree and some grass. I chalked it up to a GPS glitch and turned right at the next corner.

• Smartphone sales shoot up, benefiting RIM, Apple, Android

  The smartphone's impact on the mobile phone marketplace globally is well-established, but smartphone growth continues its upward trend in fairly astounding degrees, according to market research firm Gartner Inc.

• Rumor: BlackBerry tablet coming this year?

  The news is buzzing as a leak from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (via IntoMobile) states that it has received an order from Research in Motion for an 8.9-inch tablet.

• RIM unveils its first 3G BlackBerry Pearl

  RIM has unveiled its first 3G-enabled BlackBerry Pearl handset and looks set to roll it out across all four main mobile phone networks in the UK by June.

• Mobile phone shipments surge by 22% in Q1, IDC says

  The global market for mobile phones surged in the first quarter, growing by nearly 22% over a year earlier when the market had declined markedly in the midst of a recession.

• A sneak peek at BlackBerry 6 OS

  Following yesterday's announcements of the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and the BlackBerry Pearl 3G, RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis gave WES 2010 attendees a quick preview of BlackBerry 6 operating system. With cleaner graphics, a Webkit browser and some new navigation features, the OS update will definitely please existing BlackBerry users when it launches next calendar quarter.

• RIM launches new BlackBerrys, voice-over-Wi-Fi service in US

  At RIM's annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium, the company revealed two new BlackBerry smartphones, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and the BlackBerry Bold 9650. The Bold 9650 is headed to Sprint on May 23 while the Pearl 3G will be available on multiple carriers in May. RIM also announced BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5, a voice-over-Wi-Fi service for business users.

• RIM continues its reach to consumers with new Blackberries

  The smallest BlackBerry Pearl smartphones yet, the 9100 and 9105, will go on sale in May on various carriers, Research in Motion Ltd. announced today.

• HP signs up FedEx, Hilton for public cloud printing service

  FedEx, Hilton and AirCanada have joined HP's PrinterOn network partnership, and will implement the company's ePrint technology in public locations from June 2010.
  

• HP enables remote printing for BlackBerry devices

  Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday added mobile printing to its enterprise services offerings, giving BlackBerry users a new way to print documents on the go.

• RIM's future strong despite outages and outraged users

  A data service outage affecting some BlackBerry users nationally this week seems to have left them angry but not deeply concerned about the future of BlackBerry's parent, Research in Motion Ltd.

• RIM silent on data outages in North America, UK

  Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom experienced data outages Monday and yesterday on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi, according to user groups and some U.S. carriers.

• Amazon puts Kindle e-book reader on US BlackBerries

  Amazon.com has released a version of its Kindle application for BlackBerry users, giving them access to their e-books without a Kindle device.