BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has launched a call for economy in smartphone application design. With Apple’s thousands of developers clearly in the company’s sights, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis warned that the iPhone is a prophet of the bandwidth-challenged future.He points out that carriers in the US urban areas already face problems maintaining their network in the face of the deep data greed of the new data-centric smartphone generation.In a slap of the wrist to Apple, he says, "Manufacturers had better start building more efficient applications and more efficient services. There is no real way to get around this," “If we don't start conser
