Mark Bridge writes:

Those quarterly figures keep coming. In our Wednesday podcast we talked about Apple and Nokia – and since then we’ve heard from Everything Everywhere, LG, Motorola, Samsung (with its multi-million selling Galaxy S II), Telefonica and Virgin Media. Each had something positive to stay, although some were more convincing than others.

Research in Motion has announced that BBM - the BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging service - is now going to be available from within certain applications.

The new version 6 of BBM will work with 'BBM connected' apps , enabling users to interact with friends from within the app itself. For example, a BBM connected game would let users chat in real-time while the game is being played.

103 million smartphones were shipped in Q2 2011 according to ABI Research. That's a 62% growth on the same period last year and a 2.2% increase on last quarter.

It notes that Nokia's smartphone market share has fallen from 38% last year and 24% last quarter to 16% in Q2 2011, leaving it in third place when it comes to shipments.

Last month, Research In Motion announced plans for a 'cost optimization program' that would involve redundancies.

It's now confirmed more details, revealing that it's cutting 2,000 jobs; roughly 10% of the global workforce.

Online video editing service JayCut has become part of Research In Motion.

In a blog post, JayCut CEO Jonas Hombert said "After spending time with RIM's CEO Mike Lazaridis as well as the founders of The Astonishing Tribe, an amazing group of creative individuals that was acquired by RIM in January, I could see that we would fit in well with them."