Police officers who are investigating the the riots in London will be able to track down and arrest those who are responsible based on their BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) conversations with those who took part. BlackBerry owners who used the social network to send messages and plan the unrest, could find their personal data, including their names and those they contacted,...

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced the Blackberry Messenger 6.0, a significant update that takes one of the smartphone’s most popular apps and turns it from being just an instant messaging app into a social platform for other applications. This spring, RIM showed some of the capabilities of the new BBM at the BlackBerry World, and while it may not cause so much...