Google today announced the availability of its flagship Nexus One smartphone on the AT&T network and on Rogers Wireless in Canada.

The company is offering the Nexus One directly to consumers for use on either of the two networks for $529, without any telecom subsidy in sight at least for now. There is no comment from the two carriers as to whether or not they would subsidize the device.

The Nexus One is currently offered exclusively through T-Mobile in the U.S. priced at $179 on a two-year term.

Google originally announced it intended to offer a version of the Nexus One for use on the Verizon network by spring 2010. Reports today indicate the Verizon version could launch on March 23, 2010.

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The BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) today has finally fixed a flaw that left North American users without BlackBerry Messenger, sporadic email delivery, and no web browsing yesterday and late into the morning today.

This interruption of service marks the second BlackBerry service outage in less than a week, the last one occurring on December 17.

The BlackBerry Curve was the top selling smartphone in the United States in the first quarter of 2009, giving RIM a 50-percent share of the total smartphone market in the U.S.

RIM most recently posted strong Q3 2009 earnings and added 4.4 million new subscribers in the quarter, bringing the total BlackBerry user-base worldwide to 36 million.

RIM blamed a flaw in an updated version of the BlackBerry Messenger app for causing the outage. The company is encouraging users to upgrade to the latest version 5.0.0.57 of BlackBerry Messenger. Just remember to upgrade first.

RIM spokeswoman Rachel Colley confirmed today in an email that the problem has been fixed.

A service interruption occurred Tuesday that affected BlackBerry customers in the Americas. Message delivery was delayed or intermittent during the service interruption. Phone service and SMS services on BlackBerry smartphones were unaffected. Root cause is currently under review, but based on preliminary analysis, it currently appears that the issue stemmed from a flaw in two recently released versions of BlackBerry Messenger (versions 5.0.0.55 and 5.0.0.56) that caused an unanticipated database issue within the BlackBerry infrastructure. RIM has taken corrective action to restore service.

The popular BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), today released third quarter financial earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, sending the RIM stock surging up by about 12-percent in after hours to $70.76 (as at 5:36pm EST), up from the $63.46 market-close.

Q3 (ended November 28) earnings were $3.92 billion ($1.10 per diluted share), while Wall Street was expected $1.04 per share and up to $3.79 billion in total revenue.

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If you’re wondering why emails and messages are not coming in to your BlackBerry right now, it’s because the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is experiencing problems right now worldwide.

The outage could potentially be affecting your browser, among other apps such as Facebook that rely on BIS to function. Other third-party apps such as Google Maps might not be affected by the outage.

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BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Inc. (RIM) has officially unveiled the new BlackBerry Storm 2, the successor of RIM’s very first touch-screen based device.

It is expected RIM will be announcing availability in the coming days. The phone should head to Verizon first in the U.S. and later in the Europe from Vodafone.

The Storm 2 will feature basic enhancements compared to the first-generation Storm. RIM has enhanced the SureType text-entry to only electronic-based, and there will now be no moving parts. The memory has also been doubled to 256MB of flash memory, and there is now 2GB of on board storage. The device features GPS, a 3.2MP camera, and now includes 802.11 b/g WiFi.

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Update: The syncing issues seem to be all resolved in the latest release.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM), has just released its much anticipated BlackBerry Desktop Manager software for Mac users.

Desktop Manager for Mac allows users to sync their contacts, calendar, notes, and tasks, manage applications on their device, and now it also allows Mac users to install the BlackBerry operating system (previously the process could only be done with a PC). You can also sync your iTunes playlist with your BlackBerry.

If you have Pocket Sync Manager installed, it will no longer work if you install Desktop Manager, unless you uninstall Desktop Manager again.

Trying out the program myself, I was able to successfully uninstall an app, but as of right now, my contacts have disappeared from my BlackBerry following an unsuccessful sync.

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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) in partnership with TiVo has released the first TiVo mobile app for BlackBerry devices.

The app brings new mobile functionality exclusively on the BlackBerry platform such as the ability to seamlessly browse show times/programming info, remote recording scheduling/options, all on the go.

From your BlackBerry, you can search for shows by title, keyword, actor, and genre. You can also add shows to your TiVo calendar and add reminders directly from the BB that will sync with your home TiVo.

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Yahoo today released two new important mobile apps, a native Flickr iPhone app (iTunes) along with a Yahoo Finance BlackBerry application.

The Flickr iPhone app is now the best way to upload, manage, and share your photos on Flickr via the iPhone. You can seamlessly upload photos and add information to photos such as descriptions and tags. You can also view and comment on photos from other users.

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If you’re looking for a nice theme for your BlackBerry, you might want to check out the new HTC Hero theme developed by Ethemes.

The sleek looking theme is nicely designed, and has a few features you might not have really seen on a BlackBerry theme before.

On the home-screen, the theme lets you access Media, includes quick launch icons, two other short cuts, weather app support directly on the home-screen, and even lets you browse your messages and calendar directly from the home-screen.

It is not very often a nice premium theme is released for the BlackBerry platform free of charge - so this is a pretty nice treat.

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RIM Co-Founder & CEO Jim Balsillie

Waterloo-based BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), is now the world’s fastest-growing company according to a report released by Fortune.

The report noted RIM had an average sales growth of 77% over the last three years, with average EPS growing at 84 percent during the same period.

The tremendous growth can be attributed to RIM diversifying into the consumer market space. RIM now holds over 20% of the total smartphone market in Q1 2009, according to the report. The BlackBerry Curve device was

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