Wireless Industry Veterans Kristian Tear and Frank Boulben to Join RIM Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced key additions to its executive leadership team with the hiring of Kristian Tear as Chief Operating Officer and Frank Boulben as Chief Marketing Officer. With deep experience in the mobile computing [...]
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Research In Motion Appoints New Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer
May 8th, 2012 
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Posted in Apps, Blackberry, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry OS, Carriers, Devices, Featured, News, News, Press Release 
Tags: CMO, COO, Frank Boulben, Kristian Tear, press release, research in motion, RIM 
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Native IM Clients: WML & Yahoo Messenger Both Updated to v3.0.0.20
May 8th, 2012 Sleepracer RIM has just released updated to their native IM clients for BlackBerry. Windows Live Messenger (WML) and Yahoo Messenger both have been updated to v3.0.0.20. for some reason or another Google Talk has yet to be updated to v3.0.0.20.
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RIM Gets Slapped With Another Patent Lawsuit – This Time it is Over Music Playlists
May 8th, 2012 Sleepracer Well here we are the second week into the month of May and RIM has been hit with yet another patent lawsuit over music playlists. GigaOm was informed that a shell company, Point Ventures of Seattle has sued RIM for infringing on US Patent 7667123.
Posted in Apps, Blackberry, BlackBerry OS, Carriers, Devices, Featured, News, News Tags: blackberry, Lawsuit, music, patent, Patent Trolls, Playlist, RIM No Comments »
Fruit Slash for PlayBook Updated to v1.4.6
May 8th, 2012 Sleepracer Fruit Slash for the BlackBerry PlayBook has received a small update to v1.4.6 in App World. Fruit Slash – slice your way to the top ranks of Juicy Ninjas! Beware of bombs, unlock hidden achievements! Fruit or berry – turn it into tiny pieces!
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Touch Bowling for PlayBook Updated to v2.0
May 8th, 2012 Sleepracer Touch Bowling for PlayBook has been updated to v2.0 in App World. This is a simple and fun bowling game. User can position the ball before rolling by tapping and holding anywhere on alley. To play game user should flick the balls towards pins.After the game is over total score and highest score is displayed. [...]
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Xploding Boxes for PlayBook Updated to v3.3
May 8th, 2012 Sleepracer Xploding Boxes for the BlackBerry PlayBook has been updated to v3.3 in App World. Xploding Boxes is a strategy game where the intent is to start a chain reaction that will explode all of the boxes on the screen. Each level gives you a different number of clicks, and requires a different strategy to solve.
RIM Announces May’s BlackBerry Fan of the Month – Congrads to @AllAboutMyBB
May 7th, 2012 Sleepracer RIM has announce May’s BlackBerry Fan of the Month! We like to take a minute to congratulate Mark AKA @AllAboutMyBB for being the BlackBerry Fan of the Month! Nice job Mark keep up the great work and if you are interested in writing about BlackBerry news and more let us know by BBMing us! Our [...]
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ZXing and CppUnit Has Been Ported to BlackBerry 10
May 7th, 2012 Sleepracer If you are a BlackBerry Developer you will be happy to know that ZXing and CppUnit both have been ported for BlackBerry 10! ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java, with ports to other languages. It decodes barcodes on the device without communicating with a server. ZXing [...]
Posted in App Updates, Apps, Apps, BlackBerry 10, Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha, BlackBerry PlayBook Apps, Devices, Featured, News, News, Update Tags: BlackBerry 10, CppUnit, github, Open Source, ZXing, ZXing and CppUnit No Comments »
UberSocial for Twitter and Facebook Gets Updated to v1.353
May 7th, 2012 Sleepracer UberSocial for Twitter and Facebook has been updated to v1.3.53 today in App World. What’s new in this version? Fixed bug in 1.352 where the thumbnail based photo chooser wasn’t used being used for BlackBerry OS versions 6.0 and above. Born on BlackBerry and built specifically for BlackBerry users, UberSocial (formerly UberTwitter) is the #1 [...]
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RIM Launches BlackBerry Screen Reader for Customers with Visual Impairments
May 7th, 2012 Sleepracer Waterloo – – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched BlackBerry® Screen Reader, a free software application that helps customers who are blind or visually impaired operate their BlackBerry® smartphone. BlackBerry Screen Reader provides an audible output based on visual information displayed on a BlackBerry smartphone.
