InternetEconomic Woes Can't Stop BlackBerry Growth

Research in Motion outpaces the market in the U.S.

Source: Reuters For the first time, Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry cornered 10 percent of U.S. mobile phone sales in the second quarter in a market that grew more than 5 percent despite economic concerns, Strategy Analytics said on Monday. The research firm said Canada's RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) was seeing huge success with both consumer and enterprise handsets in the United states where total mobile phone shipments rose 5.3 percent to 41.9 million units from 39.8 million in the second quarter of 2007. Also in the second quarter, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) managed to keep the lead in its home market. While some analysts have been expecting Motorola to be overtaken by rivals even in its strongest market, the phone maker had better-than-expected U.S. sales in the quarter, giving it 25.8 percent of the U.S. market compared with its global share of less than 10 percent. RELATED ARTICLES Surprise! Motorola Turnaround Yields Small Profit Sluggish Economy Not... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

InternetCitigroup sees better Amazon Kindle sales (Reuters)

Reuters - Citigroup said on Monday that Amazon.com Inc's Kindle electronic book reader appears to be selling much better than expected and could double a previous estimate for units sold this year, sending shares in the online retailer up 9 percent.

InternetFaster Attacks Break DNS Patches in Under 10 Hours (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - The Internet remains vulnerable to exploits of a critical security flaw in the Domain Name System, a Russian programmer demonstrated last week. Writing on his blog on Friday, Evgeniy Polyakov posted that he had succeeded in getting patched DNS software to return an incorrect location in less than 10 hours.