The authors of the latest research2guidance report drew attention to the potential of using cross-platform tools and provided relevant statistics, estimating the market at $2.4 billion.

Pocket Gamer has some interesting material from our colleague Matthew Diener about what can wait for Canada after BlackBerry leaves the mobile market. We couldn’t resist and translated the article.

According to the latest data from the research company IDC, sales of Android smartphones increased by 73.5% compared to last year. 

Yesterday, Microsoft announced its intention to expand the selection of applications in the Windows Phone Store by launching a beta version of its new online visual editor Windows Phone App Studio.

The next update to the tenth version of BlackBerry will allow Android developers to directly (without porting) transfer their applications developed with an eye on Jelly Bean to the Canadian OS. 

Expert project Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru and IDC conducted a study of the Russian smartphone market in the first quarter of 2013.  According to its results, the share of Android-based devices in shipments for the year increased from 39.7% to 70.9%.

Briefly about the main “iron” events of today: Sony introduced its new tablet, the characteristics of LG Optimus G Pro became known, BlackBerry was compared with the iPhone 5.

Briefly about the main “iron” events of today: in 2013, a rapid increase in the number of tablet phones is expected; Samsung is going to introduce a 6.3-inch Note; the characteristics of the BlackBerry 10 L-series have become known.

RIM Canadians have finally released a ready-made development kit for the tenth version of their operating system. At the same time, photos of the company’s new device got online. 

According to the results of the third quarter of this year, 75% of the global smartphone market belongs to Android.

A Canadian vendor has opened the BlackBerry Tech Center in the UK – the first technical support center for developers of mobile applications based on BlackBerry 10.

As part of the BlackBerry Jam 2012 event, RIM introduced the BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system.

During the second quarter of this year, almost 154 million smartphones were sold, two–thirds of which are Android-based devices, according to Garther. 

The management of the Korean company denied rumors about possible cooperation with the creators of BlackBerry. 

The Steve Jobs platform managed to reverse the aggressive growth of Android in the US market. According to Strategy Analytics, compared to the results for the second quarter of last year, Google lost more than 4% of the market. 

Research in Motion (RIM) is investing $100 million in developing a developer community for its BlackBerry platform.

The share of Android in the American smartphone market has grown to 49% in the first quarter of 2012, according to experts of the advertising company Millennial Media. So Google’s operating system continues to be the “king of the mountain”; also in the US, 15 of the top 20 mobile devices run on Android 

Potential tablet buyers are less and less interested in purchasing devices from Apple, according to Ipsos Mediact analysts, who provided detailed data on the current preferences of American consumers. 

Canadians from RIM in honor of the festive event – the “blackberry” app store turned three years old on April 1 – shared the achievements of the store.