RIM has acquired The Astonishing Tribe, a Sweden based UI design firm. They will probably be used to create UIs for the QNX OS.

Blackberry 8980 images surface at FCC e-filings website. Radio specifications are provided, and a rendered picture shows a full QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2MP camera.

Pricing details of the Blackberry Playbook have leaked out. The Playbook is priced at $399 for 8 GB, $499 for 16 GB and $599 for 32 GB.

Blackberry Bold 9780 is now available in India and is retailing for a price of Rs.26,900. Although there has been no official word from Blackberry regarding the availability of BB Bold 9780 in India, but a few advertisements for the device have been spotted in major Indian newspapers.

The new Blackberry Style 9670 is coming to Sprint on October 31. It is priced at $99.99 after an MIR of $100.

The Indian Govt. has now agreed to extend the deadline for Blackberry to comply with security related issues till December 31, 2010. So if things do not go all well, then Blackberry users might have to welcome the new year with a new kind of Blackberry – without corporate e-mail and chat!

Blackberry PlayBook Pictures and Video. View Images of Blackberry PlayBook and Video preview of the RIM Tablet.

Research In Motion, the creators of the popular Blackberry phone, have just made their foray into the Internet Tablet market with the introduction of the 7″ Blackberry Tablet called PlayBook.

RIM plans to announce the Blackberry Tablet at the Blackberry Developer Conference in San Francisco, next week.

Research in Motion, the creators of the famous BlackBerry have filed a trademark in Canada for SurfBook. According to rumors this is probably going to be name for the upcoming BlackBerry tablet.

Google’s Android is set to become the 2nd largest Mobile OS behind Symbian in 2010. Android will disloged both RIM and iOS to become 2nd this year.

DataViz, which recorded its big break by making the acclaimed app Documents To Go for Palm WebOS has changed its course to iPhone and Android and its recent acquisition by RIM has redefined its existence.

The chief of the UN’s telecommunications agency has urged the Blackberry manufacturer to allow law enforcement agencies access to customer data.

RIM has agreed to allow Indian authorities access to encrypted Blackberry email data to avert a ban on Blackberry services on August 31.

Research In Motion (RIM) has given the BlackBerry App World a much needed upgrade. First and foremost, RIM has dropped the minimum price of the application to $0.99 from the earlier $2.99.