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BlackBerry in talks to preload BBM on rival handsets

BlackBerry is working with other handset manufacturers to get its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service preloaded on to their phones, according to a top executive. BlackBerry announced that BBM would go cross-platform at its annual conference last month. (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) “There is interest from other handset makers,” BlackBerry chief operating officer Kristian Tear told CNET in an interview on Wednesday. …

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Apple said to limit wireless speeds on some U.S. carriers

Editor’s note: See update at the bottom of this post. A developer who provides iPhone hacks claims to have discovered code in iOS that suggests Apple is helping the top three U.S. wireless carriers throttle data speeds for all iPhone and iPad customers. Joseph Brown, operator of the Web site iTweakiOS, claimed — in a post that has since been …

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