mobile OS

It's been a bad year for Research in Motion. Fortunately, the latest news about its PlayBook tablet OS is encouraging-- oh, wait, it's not.

South Korean mobile device maker Samsung does not plan to purchase webOS from HP, according to CEO Choi Gee Sung.

Research in Motion is now actually shedding U.S. subscribers, not merely losing market share.

Finnish mobile device maker Nokia warns investors that Q2 sales and profit margins will be well below previous forecasts.

Microsoft may have embarked upon a major smartphone partnership with Nokia, but clearly Redmond has its own agenda in the mobile market.

The latest Nielsen research on the U.S.

RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie took exception to recent comments by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop that omitted the BlackBerry maker from the short list of mobile "ecosystem" players.

When 2010 began, the iPad was nothing but a collection of rumors and speculation. According to data from Good Technology, though, Apple's tablet managed to go from non-existent to 22 percent of the mobile platform market--at least as evidenced from the Good Technology customer base.

Apple Insider has a post about Verizon's plan to launch a major promotional campaign for its new iPhone. Neil Hughes writes:

For years it's been said that Apple and co-founder Steve Jobs use a "reality distortion field" to create buzz about the company's products and cultivate an army of devoted customers.

They should get these guys on stage together next time. Then they could exchange nasty text messages in front of the audience.

There's an interesting post on GigaOm which informs readers that Samsung, the No. 2 cell phone manufacturer in the world, is "reportedly shifting its focus to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 in 2011":