Research In Motion has long dominated the mobile enterprise, but there are signs the BlackBerry’s days as the phone of choice for business users may be coming to end. RIM shares sank last week after it posted quarterly shipment figures and subscriber additions that fell short of expectations. And while RIM reported an impressive 40 percent jump in earnings over the year-ago period, that wasn’t [...]

Rebtel today introduced an updated version of its Android application that adds free international calls between two Android phones. The software automatically detects when an international call is placed to one of the 50 supported countries and routes it through Rebtel’s network at no charge — callers only pay or use local carrier minutes on their voice plan. Since its 2006 founding, [...]

Critics of Apple’s iPhone notification system have new hope for less intrusive alerts now that Rich Dellinger is back with the Cupertino company, notes PreCentral. Dellinger left his User Interface Designer role at Apple to work on the webOS platform at Palm, where, according to his LinkedIn profile, he “invented the non-intrusive banner notification system used in webOS” — [...]

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Apple’s iPhone production is ramping up to levels that suggest it’s “increasingly becoming carrier-agnostic” and could mean we’ll see a Verizon iPhone sooner than previously expected, Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar alleges in a note to clients today. Up to 12 million iPhones are already in the supply chain for the September quarter — a huge amount considering [...]