Research in Motion News

"It's kind of heavy, isn't it?" Those are the first words people seem to utter when they heft a Droid smart phone.

Canadian stocks fluctuated as U.S. indexes of manufacturing, construction spending and pending home sales topped economistsa forecasts, lifting commodity producers, and Research In Motion Ltd.

U.S. stock futures rose Thursday, helped by Cisco Systems' upbeat results, a buyback at Research In Motion and relatively upbeat economic reports on unemployment claims and productivity.

Motorola's upcoming Droid smartphone is grabbing plenty of attention--so much attention, in fact, that news of two new BlackBerry devices is getting lost in the shuffle.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Canadian markets opened weakly, dipping in and out of positive territory, Thursday as lower oil and poor results from Canadian insurers dragged down markets.

Despite the economy, worldwide smartphone shipments in the third quarter set a new quarterly record, according to IDC.

U.S. stock futures were pointing to a moderately higher start Thursday, helped by a decline in weekly jobless claims, a stronger-than-expected profit report from Cisco Systems and a stock buyback at Research In Motion.

Research in Motion has shipped a patch to cover a gaping hole in its BlackBerry Desktop Manager software.

U.S. stocks rallied, sending the Standard & Poora s 500 Index higher for a fourth day, as jobless claims and worker productivity beat forecasts and Cisco Systems Inc.

LG Electronics' chief executive Nam Yong said on Wednesday that LG's main competition was not Nokia, but smartphone makers Apple and Research In Motion.

Ross Grieve figures if a kid from Winnipeg like him can rise to the top of Canada's construction industry, it must be a great business.

The worldwide converged mobile device market continued to weather the economic recession and reached a new record for shipments during a single quarter.

Research In Motion Ltd. says it has been authorized to spend up to US$1.2 billion to buy back its common shares from the open market and cancel them.

For T-Mobile and AT&T customers, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is a long overdue - but welcome - addition to both carriers' 3G smartphone line ups.

The fee, arriving just in time for the holidays, applies to customers who have a smart phone or other advanced device on a one or two year contract.

Photograph by: Vancouver Sun files, . Canadian stock markets started the week on a down note Monday, after a Wall Street analyst slashed his rating and his target price on Research In Motion , telling traders to sell the shares of Canada's biggest technology company.

The Competition Bureau is pushing for changes in how much Canadians pay in realty commissions after an investigation found the country's largest realtor association was operating with anti-competitive rules.

Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.

The number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded that of people banking from their PCs in South Africa, with more than a quarter of bank customers turning to their cellphones for services ranging from informational transaction types such as balance enquiries to financial transaction types which include account payments.

Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Monday evening.