RIM made some high-profile announcements on Monday at DevCon, but it also talked up a set of interesting BlackBerry stats. Research In Motion (RIM) made a handful of application-developer-related announcements at its third annual BlackBerry Developer Conference (DevCon) in San Francisco, including the unveiling of the brand new BlackBerry “PlayBook” tablet computer and the introduction of new app development and monetization utilities. But the BlackBerry-maker also announced some fairly impressive statistics on BlackBerry use. Tyler Lessard, RIM VP of Developer Relations, on Stage at DevCon 2010I won’t waste too much space pontificating on the numbers, some of which have been published before, since I think they mostly speak for themselves. But for a company that seems to be increasingly on the receiving end of media- and analyst-lashings, RIM’s BlackBerry numbers sure do look good on paper. BlackBerry by the Numbers SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe 50 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide 150 million BlackBerry smartphones sold to date12.1 million BlackBerry smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2010BlackBerry is the #1 smartphone in both North and Central America, based on subscribersRegistered BlackBerry application developers total more than 300,000Current BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) installations total more than 250,000More than 25 million active BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) users RIM is currently adding about 1.5 million new BBM users each month, or roughly 2000 BBM users each hourAbout 35 million people use BlackBerry App World, RIM’s mobile software store, every dayBlackBerry App World now sees an average of 1.5 million application-downloads a day More than 75 percent of all BlackBerr App World apps are downloaded to smartphones running RIM’s BlackBerry 5.0 or BlackBerry 6 operating systemsAS Al Sacco covers Mobile and Wireless for CIO.com. Follow Al on Twitter @ASacco. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline. Email Al at ASacco@CIO.com. Related content feature Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat A cryptographically relevant quantum computer will put everyday online transactions at risk. Mastercard is preparing for such an eventuality — today. By Poornima Apte Sep 22, 2023 6 mins CIO 100 CIO 100 CIO 100 feature 9 famous analytics and AI disasters Insights from data and machine learning algorithms can be invaluable, but mistakes can cost you reputation, revenue, or even lives. These high-profile analytics and AI blunders illustrate what can go wrong. By Thor Olavsrud Sep 22, 2023 13 mins Technology Industry Generative AI Machine Learning feature Top 15 data management platforms available today Data management platforms (DMPs) help organizations collect and manage data from a wide array of sources — and are becoming increasingly important for customer-centric sales and marketing campaigns. By Peter Wayner Sep 22, 2023 10 mins Marketing Software Data Management opinion Four questions for a casino InfoSec director By Beth Kormanik Sep 21, 2023 3 mins Media and Entertainment Industry Events Security Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe