Palm leaps on upgrade citing allure of webOS, Pre

Shares of handset maker Palm Inc. charged up 7.5 percent in premarket trading Friday after an analyst upgraded the company, saying its new operating system has boosted the company's potential to catch up with smartphone industry leaders Apple Inc. and Research in Motion Ltd.

0

0

BlackBerry Partners makes first investments

Location, location, location is the theme for the first investments made by a venture capital fund set up with money from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd.

0

0

Apple's profit up 26 percent on iPhone boom

Booming sales of the newest iPhone led Apple to a stellar fiscal fourth-quarter report, defying predictions that the tumultuous U.S. economy would hold the company back.

7

2

RIM 3Q Earnings More Than Double

Research in Motion Ltd.'s fiscal third-quarter profit more than doubled on strong demand for its BlackBerry smart phones by consumers and businesses.

1

0

BlackBerry system failure snarls service A system outage blocked BlackBerry e-mail service on Wednesday, frustrating users of the addictive mobile devices.

1

0