BlackBerry maker Research In Motion held a final port-a-thon event recently that saw 19,000 apps submitted to its newly named BlackBerry World online store. The company is set to unveil its new BlackBerry 10 OS and handsets next week, a platform it hopes will help put behind it the difficulties of recent years.

Research in Motion has rebranded its application store, now named BlackBerry World, and given it a makeover in time for BlackBerry 10's launch. Company CEO Thorsten Heins remains realistic ahead of its debut on January 30.

After CES, the news about current devices can seem boring; We just want the new stuff. Since we can't have it quite yet, we might as well stay informed about the now. LG and Google are having a rocky relationship, Samsung's selling tons, and Apple's barely selling at all. All that and more in this week's mobile news recap.

A BlackBerry 10 smartphone believed to be called the Z10 may have leaked on Verizon's website.

The descent of RIM has been well-documented in the tech press, but the obituaries may have been scribbled prematurely. BlackBerry 10 is almost here and it could spark a major comeback for the brand.

Getting businesses back on board is key to the success of RIM's next-generation BlackBerry 10 platform. So the fact that more than 1600 companies have so far signed up to its BB10 training program – among them Fortune 500 firms and government agencies – looks like excellent news for the Canadian mobile maker.

There's still a couple of weeks to go before BlackBerry 10 is launched, but if you can't wait to see the new operating system in action, you'll want to see this hands-on video of the software running on a BlackBerry Z10.

A special event held by Research In Motion over the weekend saw BlackBerry and Android developers submit 15,000 apps in under 38 hours to the soon-to-launch BB10 platform.

A new leak indicates T-Mobile USA will release a BlackBerry 10 device on March 27, a month after Best Buy Canada is rumored to do so, and two months after Research in Motion's global BlackBerry 10 launch event.

A possible release date for the first BlackBerry 10 handsets has been leaked, and it's in keeping with RIM's own promise the phones would go on sale less than 30 days after the January 30 launch event.

RIM is now just a couple of weeks away from its highly anticipated BB10 launch, set for January 30. The mobile maker says it will unveil two new handsets on the day, with at least four more to follow by the end of the year.

Android, iOS, and Windows Phone are the big names in mobile operating system software, but this may be about to change, as there are five interesting challengers all vying for a piece of that valuable market share - and they're all coming very soon.

While Thursday was all about being thankful, the rest of the weekend is all about regretting that you ate so much. If you're just waking up from a food coma, you may have missed Jolla's Sailfish OS, Google skipping December, and Instagram's record setting day. Don't worry, we've got it all and more in the weekly mobile wrap.

Google enters the patent battle, Blackberry lays low, and some awesome apps find new homes in this week's Mobile Weekly Wrap.

RIM has announced the new version of the BlackBerry PlayBook and it features 4G LTE connectivity. It will be released in Canada first on August 9. RIM CEO Thorsten Heins also floated the idea of licensing BB10 to manufacturers.

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has another article in The Globe and Mail, this time answering reader questions in response to his editorial about BlackBerry 10 last week.

Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has written an editorial for The Globe and Mail defending BlackBerry and RIM's future.

Without citing sources, Britain's The Sunday Times reports that Canada's Research in Motion is considering selling its handset division or splitting it into a separate company.

Sources close to the former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie claim that the company was close to opening its famed network to wireless carriers for the use of any device, paving the way for low-priced data plans. But the deal was reportedly killed at the last minute by RIM corporate infighting.