RIM Gets 15,000 App Submissions For Its New BlackBerry Phone In One Weekend (RIMM)

RIM held a "portathon" over the weekend where it offered a $100 prize to any developer who could port his or her app to BlackBerry 10 and get it approved. There were 15,000 submissions, according to a tweet from Alex Saunders, RIM's president of developer relations. Not bad, although it's still unclear how many of those submissions will be accepted. One of the biggest problems facing RIM's new BB10 operating system is the lack of apps compared to Google's Android and Apple's iPhone. RIM is going...