One of RIM’s staple services, BlackBerry Messenger, has a rather substantial update in the making. The image above shows what is claimed to be BBM 6.1′s new interface which includes more customization options and all new icons. To some it may not seem like much. But to BlackBerry fanatics who’ve been looking at the same aging pixels since BBM 5.0 was released last year, it’s more than welcome. Via: ...

Previous rumors have pegged RIM bringing their popular and reliable (current) BlackBerry-only BlackBerry Messenger client to other platforms, namely Android and iOS. Thus far, no official date or quarter has been mentioned. But forum commenter over at MacForums may have cracked the secret. Apparently the guy’s business class went to a social media conference held by RIM at which co-CEO Jim Balsillie said to expect BBM for iOS on April 26th. Later this summer, an...

The BlackBerry OS may not be looked as favorably upon in the age of Android, iOS, and webOS, but truth be told there are still several good things going for it. For one, the email while simple, is extremely easy to set up, operates reliably, and is customizable on a much larger scale for enterprises. But perhaps the most important aspect of the BlackBerry OS moving forward is BlackBerry Messenger. This once ignored IM “app” has blossomed more into a platform...

As suspected, RIM announced some upcoming changes in their BlackBerry Messenger platform that will coincide with increased social aspects of future OS updates. Indonesian blog, Kombb, managed to get some claimed preliminary details of BBM 6.0: Play games using your BBM username Cross-chat with users on BBM even without being their friends. BBM status will update dynamically depending on goals and accomplishments from games. BBM6 will be supported on all 5.x+...

Remember that whole RIM vs. Kik Messenger quarrel from last week? At the time, RIM wasn’t very talkative about the matter, instead giving very vague statements saying simply that “Kik was doing some questionable things”. Well the cat has now come out of the bag — kind of. RIM has come forward with an official statement. Unfortunately, it is just as vague as their previous stamtent — RIM became aware of a number of issues and customer...