<p>BlackBerry has become the Bluto Blutarsky of the American smartphone market because, as Dean Wormer said in the 1978 classic "Animal House," its market share is now "zero point zero."</p><p>Consumer Intelligence Research Partners on Thursday came out with its latest numbers on mobile market share in the United States and found that BlackBerry devices accounted for 0 percent of all smartphone activations in the fourth quarter of 2013, which isn't too surprising considering that the company spent a good chunk of the quarter with a "For Sale" sign hung around its neck.</p><p>In its last earnings report, BlackBerry said it only sold 1.9 million total smartphones on the quarter and most of those were BlackBerry 7 devices targeted toward emerging markets. So BlackBerry posting a 0 percent market share in the U.S. over that period is well within the realm of possibility.</p><p>BlackBerry launched BlackBerry 10 exactly one year ago in the hopes that the new platform would revive its flagging handset sales.</p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/01/31/blackberrys-us-market-share-hits-0-percent/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/01/31/blackberry-sales-basically-vanish-in-u-s/">BlackBerry Sales Basically Vanish in U.S.</a> (TechnoBuffalo)</p><p><a href="http://www.techhive.com/article/2092237/big-fat-zero-blackberry-u-s-market-share-hits-rock-bottom-survey-says.html">Big fat zero: BlackBerry US market share hits rock bottom, survey says</a> (TechHive)</p><p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/blackberry-u-s-market-share-dropped-to-zero-in-q4-2014-01">BlackBerry US Market Share Dropped to Zero in Q4</a> (WebProNews)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dI7ixHTJRezvbTMMQjnGg3P_U0mEM&authuser=0&ned=us">19 additional articles.</a></p>