RIM has announced on Twitter that it will be launching new devices powered by Blackberry OS 7 today. The list will likely include the Blackberry Bold 9900, Blackberry Torch 9810, Blackberry Torch 9860 Blackberry Curve 9360 and the Blackberry PlayBook 4G.

Today, RIM announced that it would be laying off 2000 workers, about 11% of its entire work force. Its latest products have been disasters and its stock is near its 52 week low.

Android ‘app player’ for PlayBook leaked. Old version, very buggy, but works as described.

RIM’s PlayBook Senior Product Manager to leave the company, headed to Samsung as Directory for Product Marketing.

The iPad has been the king of tablets. Windows 8 and Amazon tablets, rather than Android, RIM Playbook and HP TouchPad tablets are viable competitors.

The Blackberry App World has hit the 1 billion app downloads milestone, but it isn’t time to rejoice. Apple and Google are way ahead with the App Store and Android Market boasting of 15 billion and 5 billion downloads respectively.

Although Android holds the No. 1 position and sits on top of the smartphone market, the battle for the second position between Apple and Blackberry got tougher and in the end it was Apple who made it, leaving behind RIM’s BlackBerry in the third position.

A consortium consisting of Apple, Microsoft, Research in Motion, Sony, Ericsson and EMC won the Nortel patent portfolio in an auction for $4.5 billion. Google was desperately trying to get its hands on the patents, to make itself less vulnerable.

RIM has started rolling out a new software update for the Playbook, which adds some nifty features.

Pictures of the upcoming BlackBerry Torch 2 running BB OS7 has leaked on the Internet.

Research In Motion (RIM) has just announced their next generation BlackBerry Bold Touch handsets – the 9900 and the 9930.

Research In Motion will be hosting their BlackBerry World conference next week. We expect RIM to launch their new Smartphone and also unveil new OS BlackBerry 6.1.

The Blackberry Playbook has finally been launched by RIM. It is priced at $499 for the 16 GB version. It has a 7 inch display, a 1 GHz dual core processor and 1 GB RAM.

Pictures of the upcoming Blackberry Bold Touch, rumored to be announced at Blackberry World in May 2011 and available by July.

Today, RIM announced that its upcoming tablet, the PlayBook, will be capable of running Android apps. However, users should not get too excited about it.