RIM unveils its next-gen mobile OS: BBX

From CNET News.com: BBX combines the best qualities of RIM's older BlackBerry operating system and its QNX platform, which powers the PlayBook tablet, Lazaridis said during the company's developer conference today.

Lazaridis is still speaking, so I'll have more as his talk unfolds.

The RIM co-chief also reiterated his apology for recent service failures today as he kicked off the BlackBerry DevCon conference.

"The worldwide outages we experienced this week were unfortunate," he said.

It's been a tough few days for RIM. BlackBerry users last week had to deal with a system-wide outage that affected some customers for as many as three days--seemingly a lifetime in the dark for those who depend on e-mail as a critical communication tool. The disruptions finally ended last Thursday. In the meantime, rival Apple had a stellar launch over the weekend, selling 4 million iPhones as customers increasingly drop BlackBerrys.

RIM apologized for the disruption and yesterday said it would give $100 worth of premium apps away as a gesture of contrition. Enterprise customers would get a month of technical support for free.

Lazaridis thanked some of the development partners who were helping to supply apps to the free program.

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