Research In Motion to support Yahoo! services on Blackberry

Research In Motion has confirmed that they are going to support various Yahoo! services on their personal digital assistant product, the Blackberry. They would be adding features like search, e-mail, instant messaging, and news from the company on their upcoming Blackberry models.

This new service would be launched in as many as 60 countries in about two weeks. This deal would mean Yahoo! and RIM would be working more closely together than ever before. RIM customers as a result would get support for some of the most popular online services available online today.

RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said in a statement on this new initiative: “Our job is to create a rich user experience for our community so that they want to use Yahoo on it, and hopefully we create such a rich experience for the Yahoo community that they want to buy a BlackBerry and run Yahoo on it.”

Marco Boerries, senior vice-president of Yahoo Connected Life added his views: “We have 200 million mail users worldwide, and we’re using that user base of Yahoo to connect them to the premier device today.”

Yahoo! is also already working on providing similar services to the customers of companies like Motorola, AT&T Inc. and Cingular Wireless.