RBC Capital Markets GM Mike Abramsky, suggested that RIM could sell as much as 6 million BlackBerry PlayBook’s the fist year! In an independent survey of 1,100 consumers conducted after the CES 2011 (Consumer Electronics Show) RBC found that 6% of respondents were likely to purchase the BlackBerry PlayBook once it comes available. This represents [...]
PlayBook to Have Longer Battery Life than iPad – 4,000 3rd Party Apps at Launch
January 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
More details have emerged on the BlackBerry PlayBook’s battery life and App’s expected at launch. Reuters spoke with Jeff McDowell, RIM’s senior vice-president for business and platform marketing in regards to the Blackberry PlayBook’s battery life. There has been a lot of concerns surrounding the PlayBook’s battery life since Kaufman Brothers Analyst Shaw Wu said [...]
Meet Matthew, Manager of the Browser & Web Platform team at RIM
January 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM has been introducing us to the team that has had a hand in producing the BlackBerry PlayBook. Today the have introduced us to Mathew, manager of the Browser & Web Platform team at RIM, which is crafting the Web experience for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and helped build the BlackBerry® 6 Web browser. Mathew [...]
Build Your Own YouTube Viewer!
January 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
Tim W. over at the Official BlackBerry Developers Blog has posted an awesome “how to” on how to build your very own YouTube viewer using BlackBerry 6 Communications API. It is great to see RIM posting some great tutorials for the average developer! It also shows other developers on othe platforms just how simple it [...]
Get The Official Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry Today!
January 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
Back on September 2 2010 we told you about how Starbucks was testing out a new form of payment “mobile payment” that is. Well it looks like the testing went very well, so well in fact that the official Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry is official being accepted across the U.S starting today! You [...]
BlackBerry Playbook Makes a National Appearance.
January 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
Leo Laporte, A well known tech personality goes on “Live with Regis and Kelly” and shows off the some of the best devices that were at this years CES. Among them was the BlackBerry Playbook He shows it off int he first part of the segment and even boasts about how great it is with multi tasking and how [...]
Get “DataSmart” With BlackBerry
January 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
Everyone has been talking about data usage, data caps, and data throttling so much lately it seems RIM is now in the “data bandwagon” if you will. Introducing “DataSmart™”, RIM states on Inside BlackBerry “As you probably already know from this post about data efficiency, BlackBerry® smartphones are designed to be data efficient. But did [...]
Rumor: AT&T 3G BlackBerry PlayBook?!?
January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When the BlackBerry PlayBook is finally released it will be WiFi only, With the 4G WiMax PlayBook on Sprint to follow this summer. There is now a rumor floating around that the BlackBerry PlayBook will show up on AT&T sporting 3G by the end of March or early April. Then “sometime soon after” AT&T is to [...]
BlackBerry App World: “2 millions apps downloaded every day”
January 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
Tyler Lessard, RIM’s vice president of global alliances and developer relations, had a recent interview with Fierce Wireless. According to Lessard BlackBerry App World is gaining strength! Check out what Lessard tolds Fierce Wireless: “Today we have 17,000 apps in the store. It’s an incredible number of applications at the end of the day. And what [...]
Released: BlackBerry Payment Service and BlackBerry Payment Service SDK
January 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
The BlackBerry Developer’s Blog has posted the RIM has released a new service, Payment Service SDK Beta, This SDK will allow developers the chance to make an app and have you make purchaes from inside the application via the new BlackBerry Payment Service. Types of digital goods that are okay to distribute: Digital Content – Digital content can [...]
RIM to Ship 1M Playbooks Q1????
January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
So word on the proverbial street is that RIM is gearing up to produce and ship 1M yes million Playbooks during Q1. Those are some pretty big numbers to push to the streets in 3 months. We shall see. Source: BlackBerryCool
PlayBook is still ‘great’ without tethering a BlackBerry
January 17, 2011 By 3 Comments
I have talked to a bunch of people about RIM’s latest product the BlackBerry PlayBook and they all seemed to have the same question.: Why do we have to tether our BlackBerry? Well we cananswer that question. The answer is the PlayBook must be connected wirelessly to a BlackBerry smartphone in order to access PIM-related functions [...]
“Your Life on PlayBook” is now on Facebook
January 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
Here is another really cool Facebook app from RIM. RIM is promoting their BlackBerry PlayBook any which way they can, Now you can check out The Your Life on PlayBook app on Facebook. The Your Life on PlayBook app is cool it pulls info from your Facebook page and that info shows up in a virtual BlackBerry [...]
BlackBerry WebWorks for Tablet OS Webcasts – A Series of 4 Webcasts
January 14, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM announced the BlackBerry WebWorks for Tablet OS the other day. Now they have posted a series of 4 webcasts that will start on February 1, 2011 at 2 PM EST. The webcasts will teach you everything you need to know about WebWorks for tablet OS, including: Install tools Set up development environments Create your first application [...]
Released: BlackBerry Push Service SDK v1.0.1 – Updated: BlackBerry Push Service
January 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM has just released BlackBerry Push Service SDK v1.0.1 and updated BlackBerry Push Service What’s new in the BlackBerry Push Service v1.0.1: Subscription Check API: A new server side API has been added, which allows you to check the registration status of devices registered with your application. Optimizations and bug fixes: Improvements made to both performance [...]
RIM has Extended the offer for a free BlackBerry PlayBook!
January 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM has released the BlackBerry® WebWorks™ SDK for Tablet OS today, They also have extended the deadline for the free BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet offer! ”Offer is open between 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on December 7, 2010 and 11:59 p.m. ET on March 15, 2011 (“Offer Period”). Research In Motion Limited (“Sponsor”) reserves the right to extend the [...]
RIM Releases New Developer Tools and Services for PlayBook OS and BlackBerry Smartphones at BlackBerry DevCon Asia
January 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
With CES over, Everyone seems to have started to look at what DevCon will bring this year. With that said, RIM has now released BlackBerry WebWorks SDK (beta) for tablet OS, and New Services and Tools for BlackBerry Smartphones. The WebWorks SDK will provide Developers with: RIM’s powerful WebKit web rendering engine (which is at the [...]
Video: QNX Car concept integrates with PlayBook hands-on
January 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
RIM was not the only company at CES 2011 displaying the BlackBerry PlayBook. QNX was also displaying the PlayBook inside the QNX concept car. The QNX concept car was showing how the BlackBerry PlayBook intergrates with a car. The demo shows us how media can be displayed on the cars main from multiple devices. Terminal Mode will be used to replicate the [...]
Video Q&A: BlackBerry PlayBook tablet Product Manager Ryan Bidan
January 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Mobile Link Inside BlackBerry Posted the above video yesterday featureing BlackBerry PlayBook Product Manager, Ryan Bidan holding a Q&A session. The questions were sent in by readers as well as comments about CES. The Q&A includes: Do you need a BlackBerry to get a PlayBook? An explanation of BlackBerry Bridge Will we be seeing apps like [...]
Texas Instruments (TI) 1Ghz OMAP 4430 Processor in BlackBerry PlayBook
January 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
Engadgetmanaged to speak with a RIM rep on the floor at CES 2011 and confirmed the BlackBerry PlayBook was indeed running TI’s OMAP 4430 1Ghz dual core processor. Ronen Halevy over at Berry Reviewhas a great point “The thing I did notice is that TI already has a successor to the 4430 in the 4440 which [...]
