The BlackBerry World conference is kicking off this week in Orlando, but the news is already flowing out of the expo. New devices, operating systems, and apps, oh my! Check out all the latest BlackBerry news below! New devices — RIM unveiled BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9300 models, which both feature keyboards and touchscreens and are the thinnest BlackBerry devices yet at 10.5mm thick. See the Read more

Anyone who's had a BlackBerry will likely tell you that BlackBerry Messenger is one of the coolest features on the device. It allows free and fast messaging to any other BlackBerry user by using a special PIN without worry of text messaging fees. Plus, it allowed you to see when your message was read — a helpful if slightly stalkerish feature. After switching to an iPhone from a BlackBerry, I Read more

The tablet market is exploding since the huge success of Apple's iPad, with Samsung, HP, and even Dell creating tablets (or tablet-like devices) of their own. Now RIM is releasing more details about its seven-inch PlayBook tablet, specifically pricing and release date. A WiFi-only version is expected to hit the market first with a sub-$500 price tag in March 2011. This should place the PlayBook Read more

Sketchy details first emerged about iPad competitor over the Summer, and now RIM has released official details. The tablet, dubbed the PlayBook — not the Blackpad — features a seven-inch screen (smaller than the previously reported 9.7-inch) with a 1024 x 600 pixel display. It will also feature a GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, dual HD cameras, and support for HTML 5 and Flash. It's 9.7 Read more

In last night's Mad Men episode, Betty gets a surprise visit from the Department of Defense, who are investigating a certain ex-husband who isn't who he says he is. When she calls Don to tell him the news, they suddenly realize that the phone line could be tapped, and their conversation turns humorously stilted as they try to keep things as nonincriminating as possible. But 50 years later, who Read more

RIM officially unveiled two projects it had been working on this morning — the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and its new OS 6 — during a press conference in NYC. We get our first look at the BlackBerry Torch here (which is RIM's first smartphone to come with both a 3.2-inch touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard), while getting a closer look at the OS 6.0 operating system. Hitting AT&T Read more

It's a good thing the ladies of Sex and the City 2 traveled to Abu Dhabi when they did. Officials in the United Arab Emirates — where Abu Dhabi is the capital — have Banned BlackBerrys from the country completely. Want to know why? Find out more, as well as what prompted the action after the break. Read more

The iPad is a bestseller, but that's not preventing RIM from releasing its own "iPad killah" this November called the BlackPad (yes, the BlackPad). This tablet will be checking in with similar specs as the iPad — like a 9.7-inch screen alongside WiFi and Bluetooth technology — but will feature some additional goodies that the iPad is lacking. Find out what those are, along with rumored Read more