Last week the 2012 BlackBerry Roadmap slide deck was leaked. The leaked Roadmap document included a photo of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone. The image of the slide above contains some details of BlackBerry “London” also known as BlackBerry 10.

Research In Motion Limited (TSE:RIM) has turned down take-over offers in the past, but one of the most interesting was from Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). RIM knows that they have been having problems with maintaining a solid market share, but they prefer to get better as an independent. This past summer, Amazon.com hired an investment bank to review a potential merger with RIM. A formal offer was never made.

Research In Motion Limited (TSE:RIM) has announced their third quarter earnings earlier today. RIM reported $265 million in earnings, which is 51 cents per share for the quarter. This is down 71% from $911 million during the same quarter a year ago. The reason for the drop is because of the $485 million hit RIM took due to unsold PlayBook tablets.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) will no longer support the Gmail App for BlackBerry (installed native app) on November 22, 2011. Users can continue using the app, but it will not be supported by Google any longer. BlackBerry users can continue accessing Gmail through the mobile web app at http://www.gmail.com through the BlackBerry web browser. [Google Apps Update]

There has been a 3 day disruption of BlackBerry services that spread to North America today. This has caused frustration to millions of BlackBerry users. RIM has advised their clients about an outage happening in the Americas and they are currently trying to restore services in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and India.

Earlier this week, Sprint announced that they will be launching the BlackBerry Curve 9350 smartphone which has the candy bar design, GPS, WiFi, 5 megapixel camera, and BlackBerry 7 operating system. The 9350 will be available on Sprint on September 9th for $79.99 with a two year contract. Sprint’s business customers may be able to buy the phone for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Press release below:

Klout, the social influence measuring service, just released some new data on how phone preference correlates with influence: Blackberry users score highest, with an average Klout score of 43.6. Klout users with iPhones score an average of 42, and Android owners come in last at 40.6. The scores rank between 1 and 100 and are calculated based on social networking interactions like replies and retweets. Gizmodo theorizes that RIM devotees are more influential because Blackberry owners tend to be “corporate executives, often C-level types” and thus engage in more professional online chatter.

Research In Motion Limited (TSE:RIM) is actively working on getting their first QNX Realtime operating system mobile phone off the ground in time for the new year. The first phone is believed to have a dual-core processor. Rumor also has it that RIM is having a hard time getting QNX to work well with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software. This is evidenced by the lack of stand-alone e-mail and other productivity applications on the PlayBook tablet device. The QNX-powered phone has the code-name Colt. [IntoMobile]