Embattled smartphone manufacturer Research in Motion has announced that it is scrapping plans to offer an OS update to its Playbook tablet, instead promising that the update would be released in February. “As much as we’d love to have it in your hands today, we’ve made the difficult decision to wait to launch BlackBerry PlayBook [...]

The Blackberry Developer’s Conference, which wrapped up today in San Francisco, left many attendees and members of the press with mixed feelings about the future of RIM. CNET’s Jessica Dolcourt said in a post on the ‘Dialed-in’ blog that “RIM Blew it”, and argued that while RIM was afforded opportunity with this conference to re-energize [...]