Research In Motion has launched a new service that extends Microsoft Exchange Online cloud services to BlackBerry smartphones, allowing customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud.

The co-CEOs of embattled BlackBerry maker Research in Motion have stood down in favour of COO Thorsten Heins with the company saying it was "acting on the recommendation of its co-chief executive officers to implement the succession plan they previously submitted to the board."

Research in Motion has confirmed that products running its next operating system - formerly named BBX but now BlackBerry 10 - will not be available until the latter part of calendar 2012.

BBX is dead.  Long live Blackberry 10.

US software company, BASIS International, has secured a temporary restraining order preventing Research In Motion from using the term BBX to denote its upcoming operating system.

An investment analyst in Research in Motion's home country, Canada, has made a gloomy prognosis for the BlackBerry maker in the wake of RIM's $US485m write down of its PlayBook inventory.

Telstra is offering its BlackBerry users the ability to purchase apps from BlackBerry App World and charge the purchases directly to their monthly Telstra Mobile bill.

Research in Motion has revealed its Blackberry Messenger Music service will cost Australians $5 per month when it launches locally later in the year.

Optus has today released pricing for two of Research in Motion’s newest smartphones, namely the BlackBerry Torch 9860 and the Bold 9900.

Research In Motion has launched a free service for small businesses that allows them to manage company- or employee-owned BlackBerry smartphones and protect business-related content stored on the handsets.