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RIM has taken the unusual step of handing out thousands of ‘stripped down’ prototype Blackberry 10 devices to developers in Florida this week, getting devs on board with the platform reboot ahead of its launch later this year. Some see this as the Canadian firm’s last roll of the dice, but will it pay off?

The debate has been raging for awhile: Which will win out? Mobile websites or native apps? There have been solid arguments for both and even hybrid compromises (like native app icons that take you to a mobile site). But another melding of the two forms has just appeared in the form on CNET’s new mobile site

We write a lot about the scope of mobile fragmentation (particularly within Android) and the vastness of the testing matrix related to that fragmentation. Usually it’s viewed as a pain in the side of developers because it makes it difficult to know how their apps will preform across different devices/OS/etc.

Research in Motion has announced that its BlackBerry 10 Jam for developers will run in early May. In a March 15 entry on the BlackBerry DevBlog, RIM announced that it would host BlackBerry 10 Jam on May 1-3 as a concurrent conference to BlackBerry World, the largest annual gathering for the BlackBerry ecosystem.

London-based app consultancy and development house Chelsea Apps Factory have made a number of new appointments that point to an increasing focus on the enterprise apps market.

Google has unveiled a new set of glasses, enabling wearers to check directions, video call and take photos whilst on the move.

Reviews are a mainstay of the mobile world. It seems that nearly every publication worth its weight in data is publishing them for just about every major launch. But did you ever wonder how they go about such a process?

Google has launched a new initiative, aimed to encourage UK businesses to establish a mobile web presence.