BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion registers ‘BlackPad.com’

“Unless someone at Research In Motion is taking the time to screw with all of us, it looks like we might have an official name for their long-rumored BlackBerry tablet project: BlackPad,” Greg Kumparak reports for MobileCrunch.

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“Word of the name comes not from a disgruntled employee, nor from a prototype left at a bar; this one’s straight out of a good ol’ fashion WHOIS lookup on a domain,” Kumparak reports. “According to registration records, RIM purchased BlackPad.com just days ago.”

Kumparak reports, “Interestingly, the name ‘BlackPad’ has been surrounding the rumored tablet for almost as long as the rumors have existed. Some have chalked it up as a code name, while others insist it’s the name it’ll ship with — either way, RIM seems to have interest in protecting it.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Pad. Hey, where’d all the prepubescent wiseasses go? Not such a silly name anymore, now is it? The race to be Apple’s first also-ran meanders along.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “jax44” for the heads up.]