SAN FRANCISCO -- Research In Motion's executives and partners did their best to drown the buzz surrounding Motorola's new Verizon Droid and other mobile competitors despite not having any new devices to announce themselves here at the company's developer conference today.

RIM did just release the Storm2 late last month. But in a series of keynote presentations this morning, RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) and friends instead talked up new services for the BlackBerry line.

"The BlackBerry ecosystem is thriving and with the new services platform announced today we will help developers further monetize their applications and build breakthrough, highly responsive, location-aware applications for BlackBerry smartphones," Research In Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said.

And while many of the announcements, like support for WebKit and in-application commerce, saw RIM catching up to capabilities of the Apple iPhone, the company did trump its Cupertino, Calif. rival with at least one announcement.

RIM had Adobe Systems on hand to announce the availability of its Flash multimedia technology and Creative Suite content development and authoring tools.

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