BlackBerry maker RIM’s official line has been that it is not for sale, but this week, persistent rumors that it could get bought anyway got another fillip, in the form of a report that the handset maker has hired Goldman Sachs to advise it.

Taking a page from its search counterparts in the East and West like Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Russia’s Yandex has scooped up a mobile software company, SPB Software, to grow its mobile offerings. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Considering all the issues and upheavals that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has had in its core business of mobile phones—what with the declining market share, abandoned operating systems, and subsequent switch to a once-competing-but-equally-struggling platform—it’s no surprise that tablets have been absent from the company’s device line-up. Now, it looks like…

Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…

Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has made no secret of its interest to be a more central player in the mobile space and now it’s showing us the money, too. The company has announced that it is buying Israel-based mapping and location-based services company Telmap. The move comes as there are signs…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) won an appeal yesterday that confirmed it can stop others from selling clones of its popular computers. But the court also dealt a setback to Apple’s obsession with secrecy when it rejected the company’s attempts to seal documents related to the case.

Yesterday, we wrote that Intel was reportedly looking to take its MeeGo OS project into a new stage of collaboration post-Nokia’s move to Windows Phone, by partnering with the folks behind the Limo Foundation—namely Samsung, its most prominent member. Today, we now know what that new venture will be called:…

Yesterday, when NPD released its latest figures for mobile phone sales in the U.S., they showed that Google’s Android saw huge growth over the last year. Yet Motorola (NYSE: MMI)—one of Android’s biggest supporters, and itself a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) acquisition target—was losing ground. That prompted us to ask NPD…

If the rankings you see of most popular apps—and the IPO filing from mobile and social gaming giant Zynga and Tapjoy‘s recent $30 million round—didn’t already tell the story for you, Nielsen has spelled it out a bit more: games are the most popular category for mobile content. Figures released…

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference just wrapped up, having confirmed some surprises and not-so surprises. As expected, the company unveiled its new OS X Lion, new iOS 5 and iCloud. Read our coverage for the full details below (and sift through our WWDC archive). View the keynote on Apple.com.

It feels like we just saw the coming attraction for an intriguing movie that won’t be released until sometime next year. Windows 8’s slick touch user interface drew oohs and ahs from a crowd not usually known for liking Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) but the closest we got to an ETA…

Well, at least some of the speculation is now officially over: today Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced that it will be kicking off its annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference next week with details not only about its new operating systems for iOS and Mac, but—for the first time—it has also confirmed that…

Lodsys, the company that has made legal threats against a number of independent iOS developers around their implementation of payments services for their apps, has now published some questions and answers with more info for those interested. Meanwhile, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has still not made any public statements related to…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still a ways behind companies like Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when it comes to overall mobile market share, but it’s a veritable juggernaut when it comes to market cap, and so too, it seems, when it comes to brand value: the company today got named…

You could see this one coming from a mile away: Samsung has struck back against Apple’s patent lawsuit against it with a few of its own. The Korean mobile device maker is now taking the fight international with complaints filed in South Korea, Japan and Germany, alleging that Apple (NSDQ:…

One more app publisher is adding its voice to those decidedly against Apple’s new subscription rules for App Store apps: Readability—which creates apps and web services that let users have pared-down, text-based versions of online articles to make reading them easier—has written an open letter to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today,…

Being second-up in the press announcement stakes after Apple’s launch of The Daily was always going to be a challenge for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which was hosting its own Android event today around its newest Android OS, 3.0, “Honeycomb.” Did it rise to the occasion?

—Nvidia rolls out the ‘super’ chip: The company announced new phones powered by Nvidia Tegra 2, a “super” chip that optimizes network download speeds and higher bandwidth. It allows for faster web browsing, 3D game playability and ability to watch HDTV without draining the battery too severely. Microsoft demoed Windows…

TechCrunch kicked off a rumor today that Facebook was building software for its own phone, which would be manufactured by third-parties. Despite Facebook denying such claims, the rumors continued to spread quickly across the Web, fueled by other reports by BusinessInsider.com, which said the phone would “for sure” be based…