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According to the stats from the research firm Social Nuggets people use their computer tablets mostly for business purposes. Thus, business activity on Apple iPads and BlackBerry PlayBooks accounts for over 25%.

Meantime, owners of Android based tablets use them for business only at 20% rate. Shopping accounted for 23% of the activity on Android tablets while games accounted for 17.5% on iPads.

Social Nuggets gets the information from scanning both official reviews and comments in forums to see what people think of different tablets and what they use them for.

According to a survey conducted by Retrevo 34% of iPhone owners believe they have a 4G enabled smartphone because of “4” in the iPhone 4 name. Supposedly they are get deceived by the previous models 3G and 3GS.

Meantime, 42% of Blackberry users also believe their phones are 4G, but that is impossible. On the other hand, 61% of iPhone owners disregard if their phones are 4G enabled and they will buy the following iPhone model irrespective of the feature. Blackberry and Android users are also interested in the new iPhone, regardless of 4G speeds.

A brokerage advised on Tuesday that Research In Motion should split itself into two separate businesses to open way for innovation and robust growth.

RBC Capital Markets made its note some hours before RIM's annual shareholder meeting at its hometown of Waterloo, Ontario.

Its share price -- down more than 50 percent this year -- has led to calls for management change and suggestions RIM could become a takeover target.

As Nokia has freed the niche in the market with the abandoning to develop its own software Research In Motion is missing crucial targets to introduce its new BlackBerry models, thus disregarding the still free space.

Citigroup downgraded RIM to “hold” from “buy” and explained in a note that new BlackBerry touchscreen models may miss the crucial back-to-school buying period due to production delays, while giants Apple and Google zoom ahead.

At RIM's BlackBerry World conference this week Steve Ballmer, a CEO of Microsoft, announced the partnership with Research in Motion. Now Microsoft’s Bing becomes default search engine and maps provider for RIM’s smartphones as well as Playbook tablet.

"We're going to invest uniquely into the BlackBerry platform," Ballmer said according to bloggers covering the event. "Bing will become the default search provider in the browser and maps" on BlackBerry devices.

A new forecast made by Gartner echoed similar conclusions of IDC saying that Android will be a dominant operating system with Windows Phone 7 to come on the second place by 2015.

Further the latest Gartner forecast shows that Apple’s iPhone OS will decline to the third place behind Windows Phone while RIM’s BlackBerry will come fourth that year.

Windows Phone operating system is predicted to become the second largest smartphone OS by 2015. The Forecast made by IDC this week promises third place to Apple’s iPhone while BlackBerry will come at the 4th by 2015.

Windows Phone will grow, IDC said, because of the alliance forged between the world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia, and software powerhouse Microsoft .

First devices from the Nokia-Microsoft alliance are expected to come in 2012.

Kaspersky Lab has introduced BlackBerry and Android versions of its security software. The new software has fewer features than the existing versions for Symbian and Windows Mobile, according to the technical data.

Both the Android and BlackBerry versions can remotely block a lost or stolen device and delete its data upon receipt of an SMS (Short Message Service) code.

The software used in the forthcoming RIM Playbooks will eventually be built into the company’s flagship BlackBerry smartphones, according to the statement made by Research in Motion Ltd Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis.

Lazaridis said on Tuesday the platform used in its Playbook tablet is also targeted for future smartphones that run more complex, multi-core processors.

"By focusing on the tablet market, we see an opportunity to free where the smartphone can go," he said at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference.

A new poll of global consumer by GfK revealed that smartphone users have little brand loyalty with only Apple coming well as 59% of iPhone users are inclined to repeat their purchase.

Separate Nielsen study shows that smartphone users occupy 29% of the US market with the forecasts saying it will reach 50% by the end of next year. But it's the only market segment that makes any money, with RIM and Apple reckoned to corner over 80 per cent of the profits to be made.

According to the forecast made by ABI Research the next year will see a 15% compound annual growth rate for smartphone shipments to mobile customers. Meantime, the mobile business customer smartphone installed base will surpass 30% across the globe and in North America it will exceed 65%. The researcher says that the domination of the market will be defined by the operating system.

 According t the latest report of Lightspeed Research currently we evidence a new mobile shopping boom. 

The poll has shown that 48% of mobile phone users had made a purchase via their mobile phone. The most part of mobile shoppers are 18-34 year olds however one third of the respondents belong to 55+ group. 

During its conference for developers DevCon 2010 the smartphone maker Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry PlayBook, a 7inch rival to Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab. As you can see the device was not named as expected BlackPad. It will ship "early 2011" according to RIM.

By the moment the details about the computer tablet are as follows. The hardware measures 5.1by7.6by0.4 inches, and weighs less than a pound. The touch screen measures 7inches. It has a 1 GHz dualcore processor with symmetrical multiprocessing capabilities, and 1 GB of RAM

According to a branding index Apple was found as the fastest growing brand worldwide. Interbrand's 'Best Global Brands' 2010 brand ranking shows that Apple's brand value gained 37 percent, beating Google with a 36 percent rise, followed by BlackBerry with a 32 percent rise, J.P. Morgan with 29 percent, Allianz with a 28 percent rise, and Visa with a 26 percent rise.

MasterCard Worldwide has launched its MasterCard MoneySend service for BlackBerry Smartphones, a convenient way to transfer money in the United States from person-to-person easily and securely by combining the power of a mobile device with a banking relationship. MasterCard MoneySend is available for free download on BlackBerry App World.