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Doubts have been cast over Research in Motion's new CEO Thorsten Heins just hours after he took over the BlackBerry manufacturer from Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie on Monday.

The shake-up comes in the wake of intense competition in the smartphone market.

Reports suggest that a number of Asian smartphone makers have taken an interest in buying ailing BlackBerry maker RIM.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has announced the much-anticipated 2.0 software update for the PlayBook tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The ongoing Consumer Electronics Show 2012 is witnessing a series of game-changing innovations.

Tablet devices the world over are witnessing a rapid decline in sales with the exception of Apple. This has forced smaller tablet makers to cut prices and capture market shares.

Wayne Rooney's spokesperson said the star player was in bed and sober on Boxing Day midnight.

BlackBerry is now selling its PlayBook tablet from just £169 in the UK, following a significant price cut in the U.S. in early January.

BlackBerry will only be releasing just one handset running the shiny new BB 10 operating system, having scrapped two other phones, if rumours are to be believed.

The Consumer Electronics Show 2012 kicks off in Las Vegas on January 10; manufacturers and journalists the world over will flock to the U.S. for the biggest tech show in the world.

BlackBerry is still struggling to sell its cursed PlayBook, slashing the price of its iPad rival yet again, this time to just $299 for all models.

The year 2011 saw some tech leaps as well as flops. Here are the top 5 mobile tech glitches.

The Apple Inc. iPhone reportedly outsold Android devices at AT&T corporate retail stores by a whopping 7.8-to-1 ratio between Dec. 1 and Dec. 27. Apparently, those AT&T stores sold about 981,000 iPhones during the period, accounting for a heavy 66 percent of the turnover.

High-end retail store Harrods will sell Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 at £ 1,275.

Microsoft Leaked Roadmap predicts the arrival of Tango after Mango, later followed by Apollo coinciding with the release of superphones in 2012. Expect a massive three way battle with Apple's iPhone 5 and the rest of the Android brigade.

Take a quick look at the respective position and market share of the top selling smartphones here.

iPhone is doing good business in the UK pushing the sales to 30.9% in past 12 weeks. In operating system however Google's Android continues to be the market leader.

Research in Motion believes it can turn around failing BlackBerry brand on its own and declines Amazon buyout offer.

The BlackBerry PlayBook is continuing mercilessly on its RIM-killing rampage, forcing the Canadian manufacturer to slash the price by more than half.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion managed to shift 5,000 of its struggling PlayBook tablets in a single day last week, as the truck they were in was stolen.

The iPhone 4S has given Apple an early Christmas present, by "significantly" outselling all other smartphones in the four weeks to December 9.

Android users visit Facebook on their smartphones more often than iPhone users, with 68.2 percent returning to the application every single day.

Prince Harry was talking to his best friend, Thomas van Straubenzee, over phone when a robber took away his friend’s Blackberry.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will face the UK Supreme Court on February 1 to appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime allegations.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced Thursday that its new BlackBerry 10 operating system is being delayed until the end of next year.

It has been a bad, humiliating year for dictators, major company brands, American politicians and media mogul. Looking back at 2011, it is easy to trace a pattern from Berlusconi to Jon Corzine without fears to be misunderstood.

Court documents have revealed that the two BlackBerry executives who's drunken behaviour forced a flight to land last week "chewed through" restraints.

Apple has shifted more than 100 million applications from its Mac AppStore since it was introduced less than a year ago, and the store now boasts thousands of free and paid-for apps.

BlackBerry has been slammed for illegal sex content including child pornography.

Surveillance companies are able to hack into BlackBerry mobile phones by sending out a fake software update, the smartphone can then be monitored without the owner's knowledge.