Just a day after rolling out its first clamshell phone, Canada’s Research in Motion has unveiled a new agreements with Microsoft, MySpace, TiVo, and Slacker designed to bring new media-intensive services to its BlackBerry devices—and increase its smartphones’ appeal to consumers. The deals will enable BlackBerry users to tap into Internet radio, keep in touch with their MySpace friends, manage their TiVo set-top boxes, and tap into Microsoft’s Live Search for quick lookups and location-savvy information.
“As the BlackBerry platform continues to evolve and broaden its appeal to mobile users, RIM looks to answer our customers’ needs with a broad range of high-value solutions optimized for use with BlackBerry smartphones,” said RIM’s VP of corporate marketing Mark Guibert, in a statement.
