While the BlackBerry PlayBook is fairly solid from a hardware standpoint, it lags behind the iPad and Android tablets when it comes to app selection. RIM has a pretty crafty workaround for that up its ...

Research in Motion has been promising to launch an app soon that would allow anyone with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to run Android apps as well as native apps designed for the BlackBerry Tablet ...

One of the USPs of the BlackBerry PlayBook, before it went on sale, was its compatibility with Android apps. RIM had promised the compatibility would be in place by summer and the PlayBook will be ...

We’ve been hearing about Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook for months, but there hasn’t been much word about what they’ll look like. RIM engineers at Droidcon gave a list of Android features ...

This is how Android apps are going to look on the BlackBerry Playbook. The apps run via the Playbook’s Android App Player and from the looks of it, isn’t a bad experience at all. Regardless of how you ...

1. Extract the contents of the CyanogenMod.zip file which you should have already downloaded. 2. Download an Android launcher app packaged as a .bar file from PlayBook Bars and install it using DDPb ...

RIM has launched the latest beta of PlayBook OS, with version 2.1.0 boasting enhancements in the platform s Android runtime, among other upgrades. The latest version of the OS is designed to make ...

As the first major update to PlayBook OS nears launch, so RIM is ramping up its efforts to court Android developers. It's almost a year since RIM first announced its intention to support Android apps ...

The easiest way that most thought can salvage the PlayBook tablet device out of its impending graveyard was to allow the device to run Android Apps. Their native application market just did not have ...

Dalvik is a virtual machine that’s an integral part of the Android OS, and is open source. Earlier this year, Myriad Group announced its Alien Dalvik software, which “enables Android applications to ...

Research in Motion is breathing new life into its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet today with the release of PlayBook OS 2.0, an update that adds e-mail, a calendar, contacts and support for Android apps.

Research in Motion (RIM) is offering a free BlackBerry PlayBook to developers willing to port Android apps to the device. The manufacturer launched the initiative to help boost the tablet's app share ...