RIM took over the company Mobile Application Document

BlackBerry device maker, Research In Motion (RIM) recently acquired DataViz, the developer company's Microsoft Office document editing applications in mobile devices.

As quoted from the site InformationWeek, RIM has acquired virtually all assets and employees of DataViz. CrackBerry site the first time this led to rumors of the acquisition after several employees DataViz update their LinkedIn profile.

RIM does not disclose how much the value of this acquisition. However, the value of CrackBerry said acquisition amounted to U.S. $ 50 million.

This is the latest acquisition after RIM acquire specialist provider of virtual application infrastructure to store, Cellmania.

Is a developer DataViz Documents To Go application, document editor Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, in various types of mobile, including the iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Maemo, PalmOS, and Windows Mobile.

On IOS platforms, Document To Go is one good Office application. But on that platform there is also the Quickoffice applications and Office competitors.

While the Android platform, Document To Go competes with Androffice, who works with Google Docs.

While on the platform of Windows Mobile and Windows Phone, Microsoft has also made his official versions of Office applications. However, DataViz did not provide for the operating system WebOS applications.

Unclear whether RIM will still be providing support for the development of applications on various platforms earlier. However, with this acquisition, RIM could be providing a free version of Documents To Go for BlackBerry users

Research In Motion Acquisition Cellmania

Soon after updating store applications on the net, the BlackBerry App World, Research In Motion infrastructure specialists to acquire a virtual application store, Cellmania.

"Cellmania very pleased to announce that our company is part of Research In Motion," wrote Cellmania on the main page of his official site.

RIM has confirmed the news to the PCWorld site. "Cellmania will bring expertise in application development shops, to the BlackBerry platform," said RIM.

Cellmania is a company originated in Mountain View California United States which was founded in 1999.

This company has been developing mobile infrastructure Cellmania, like Apple's App Store infrastructure, work on content distribution networks, and enables operators to control the main screen mobile phone subscribers.

In addition to technology owned by Cellmania, RIM will also get a pretty valuable asset of human resources, ie, co-founder and CEO of Cellmania, Ronjon Nag.

Nag is a PhD graduated from Cambridge and an MBA from MIT, who has served as vice president of Motorola.

He mastered the field of human interface (human interface) and is the founder and CEO of Lexicus, the company pioneers in the field of voice recognition technology and handwriting, which was then acquired by Motorola in 1993.

Just maybe, the presence of Nag at RIM team can provide incentives for innovation in the areas of operating systems, user interfaces, and software ecosystem, to compete with Android and Apple iPhone.

BlackPad is not expected to use the BlackBerry operating system OS.

Rival BlackBerry device iPad tablet computer, BlackPad, is not expected to use the BlackBerry operating system OS.

As quoted from CNet, Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian BlackBerry maker vendor, it will grow besutan QNX Software Systems software as its operating system in BlackPad.

QNX Software Systems itself is a company that was acquired by RIM in April. At the time of acquisition of QNX, RIM is committed to increasing the use of an integrated experience between smart phones, car audio and infotainment systems.

QNX Software besutan itself is used in various types of applications, ranging from the BMW vehicle navigation applications, to software for the six-wheeled vehicles unmanned tanks owned by the U.S. military, which is created by Carnegie Mellon University in 2006: Crusher tanks.

Clearly, this step can be regarded as an attempt to conduct refresher RIM to BlackBerry devices to challenge Apple's flagship products like the iPhone and iPad.

BlackPad itself will be equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. BlackPad will not be able to connect to the network provider directly, but must be connected to the phone via Bluetooth first, to be able to access the 3G network.