Research In Motion is putting its money where its mouth is, when it comes to developers. The company is guaranteeing that developers will generate at least $10,000 in sales of BlackBerry 10 apps in the first year — or it will pay the difference, according to The Verge. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use …

Motorola Mobility posted a wider first-quarter loss in what will likely be its last report as a standalone company. The mobile-devices and TV set-top box manufacturer, poised to be acquired by Google, posted a loss of $86 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $81 million, or 27 cents a share. Excluding items, the company …

commentary A BlackBerry without a keyboard? Sacrilege, I suspect many of the faithful will say. But Research In Motion has bit the bullet and shed its physical keyboard — arguably the defining trait of its best phones — and has opted to go virtual with its BlackBerry 10 operating system (at least for the initial phone). And even though I …

Federal regulators said today they needed more time to review Verizon’s deal to acquire spectrum from the cable providers and cross-sell cable and wireless services. CNET The Federal Communications Commission extended the typical 180-day review period by 21 days to give it sufficient time to examine the reams of documents that were submitted late by Verizon and the cable companies. …

A simple Skype exploit can reveal IP addresses — remote and local — of any user. A blog post by skype-open-source runs through the process of obtaining a user’s IP address. Essentially, all a person has to do is start the process of adding a contact with a specific user name. Instead of sending a contact confirmation, the person can …

Microsoft is going to have to work quickly if it wants to avoid losing a Windows Phone supporter in LG. Following another disappointing quarter of sales decline in its key mobile devices business, LG said the company hasn’t seen much success with Microsoft’s mobile platform and doesn’t expect to make any Windows Phone products in the near future. According to …

Riptide looks better on a Tegra 3 chip than without, according to Nvidia. Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET If you want to create some pretty apps, look to Nvidia. The company, best known for its graphics processors in PCs and laptops, has during the past year branched out into the mobile world with its ARM-based Tegra processor, specifically designed for mobile …

Eager to see Research In Motion’s latest and greatest phones at BlackBerry World next week? Prepare to be disappointed. RIM will be taking a software-heavy approach this year, using the event to formally unveil its BlackBerry 10 operating system. “We are not unveiling any BlackBerry 10 hardware,” a company representative confirmed to CNET. There’s never been a more crucial BlackBerry …

Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile customers will be getting 4G — albeit the older WiMax variant — in the next quarter. Sprint Nextel is keeping its older 4G standard alive and plans to bring it to its two prepaid arms next quarter, said Steve Elfman, president of network operations for the carrier. He made his comments during the company’s earnings …

Sprint Nextel is banking that its unlimited data plan will continue to set its iPhone apart from the others — even when the next version arrives. If the next iteration of the iPhone arrives with LTE, Sprint will continue to offer a no-strings unlimited plan, CEO Dan Hesse told CNET. The company is already sticking with unlimited for its first …