With RIM set to releases BlackBerry 10 and new devices in the near year, it does leave one wondering how they are going to do over the Christmas season. Recent RIM Managing Director for the UK and Ireland, Rob Orr, believes that current BlackBerry 7 devices and RIM’s partnerships will be essential in keeping BlackBerry [...]
Rob Orr of RIM believes Christmas Momentum is key for BlackBerry 10 in the UK
October 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RIM Announces BlackBerry Developer Community Awards Winners
September 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
At Blackberry Jam Americas today RIM announced the Blackberry Developer Community Awards Winners. If you’ll remember, a few weeks back we mentioned the awards and the nominating. Here are the results! Must-Follow BlackBerry Developer on Twitter Jerome Carty (@jcarty) – Software Engineer developing BlackBerry® PlayBook and smartphone apps under Kisai Labs, Blaq for PlayBook Dev [...]
BlackBerry 10 Theme Studio rumored to be coming soon, maybe even this week
September 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It seems that we may see Theme Studio for BlackBerry 10 before we even see it for BlackBerry 7. According to a tweet that was sent out today by the @BlackBerryDev account we will be seeing Theme Studio for BlackBerry 10 either during BlackBerry Jam in San Jose this week or shortly there after.
MasterCard releases NFC SDK with support for BlackBerry 7
September 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
MasterCard has made a big move into making NFC mobile payments a little more accessible today by releasing their NFC SDK, which just happens to support BlackBerry 7. RIM has definitely made their intentions towards NFC well-known, and it appears that MasterCard has taken notice. With the release of the SDK developers will not be [...]
Video: Couple falls in love with the help of Wikitude, BBM and BlackBerry!
September 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mobile Link A lot of thing bring people together from parties to a BlackBerry Messenger! BBM and Wikitude have brought the couple in this video above together. According to the video description you can Watch how this couple discover each other and fall in love with the help of Wikitude, BBM and BlackBerry.
RIM Opens A Blackberry Expert Center Dedicated To After Sales Service In Indonesia
September 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There are already 56 Blackberry Expert Centers in Indonesia, but RIM has opened up one specifically for After Sales. Located in the Duta Merlin complex in Central Jakarta, it offers the most comprehensive set of after-sales services offered by an authorized partner, furthering RIM’s commitment to continuously delivering excellent after sales support to customers.
Isis Mobile-Payment System, To Launch Next Month
August 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The NFC payment system is going to launch in September. This is a joint collaboration with Isis Mobile Payment System, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. Starting off small, only two cities are for the September launch, Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas.
RIM Puts Out Developer Success Stories
August 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There are 40 Developer Success Stories that RIM has chosen to share. They are Q and A type stories where the devs are asked questions like why they develop, and thoughts on developing for the platform, plans for the future. It’s interesting to read a different perspective on developing. From the people who actually do [...]
You Won’t Be Seeing Any Of Blackberry 7 In Blackberry 10
August 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
So Blackberry 10 will be a whole new OS, with no hints of OS7 in it. It’s brand new territory, RIM is putting out all the stops. This according to Thorsten Heins: “Nothing from BlackBerry 7 is in BlackBerry 10, nothing,” Heins told eWEEK during an interview Aug. 14. He added “the DNA is still [...]
RIM Becomes More Efficient By Trimming, Flextronics
August 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RIM has been trimming the fat on the company to make themselves more lean and themselves more lean and more efficient to ramp of things to get Blackberry 1o device out the door and in our hands! Recently they have trimmed things up a bit by not allowing Flextronics to manufacture anymore Blackberry phones in Penang. RIM responded in [...]
How To: Recent Contact Management Retention on Blackberry OS 7.1
August 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RIM has just posted a new knowledge base article KB32484 on how you can use the new Recent Contact Management Retention feature to help you when writing messages on your Blackberry Smartphone. Hit the break for more info.
BlackBerry 10 Cascades and WebWorks Beta Roadmap Confirms Magnetic Holsters!
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
One of the things I love about Blackberry and a must a have accessory is the magnet holster. Having your Blackberry holstered on your side and automatically opening the latest message received it the most assuring feature. One of the thing that I would truly miss if this feature was not included in the new [...]
Update:RIM states that BES 10 will be backward compatible for older BlackBerry devices
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
**Update: It seems that BGR has received confirmation from RIM that BES administrators will need to have BES 5 and BES 10 running in parallel for existing in-market BlackBerry 7 devices and new BlackBerry 10 devices to run on the same servers. This goes a little against what RIM stated early today. At this point BGR’s [...]
HedoneDesign Release’s Jam Theme for your Blackberry Smartphone!
August 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
HedoneDesign makes some great themes and today we are going to take a look at their latest product, HedoneDesign Jam Theme. Put your icons in a spotlight with the new HedoneDesign theme, Jam. Brilliant white circles ensconce a sharp, clean, easily understood, and unique icon set. Fixed icons will be enhanced with the spotlight effect as well. Unique and beautiful [...]
Stay Healthy and Motivated with Healty Living for Blackberry Smarthphones!
August 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Its now August thinking back was your New Years Resolution to get in shape, improve yourself, or just eat better? Well to make those resolutions a little easier with Healthy Living for your Blackberry Smartphone! Healthy Living is a fitness and well being application to help you improve your life and get yourself back on track! Healthy Living [...]
Blackberry Webinar: Installing Universal Device Service and Mobile Fusion Studio 6.1!
August 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RIM has been pushing the envelope to get more and more developers on board as well as extending their strong support to business with security and device collaboration, even if those devices don’t come in a Blackberry flavor, with Mobile Fusion. To give you more insight on how Mobile Fusion can help improve your business, RIM is continuing their [...]
Action Starts Here Campaign Continues With Contest: Win A Bold, Torch Or Curve
August 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There was an ad spread in India’s major newspaper, and then a sing along commercial. Next up? A contest. Blackberry India is putting on the contest, so what do you have to do? Aside from being at least 18 and a resident of India.
TELUS Now Selling The Blackberry Curve 9320
August 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
And for some reason, they are charging the most, at $249.99. Remember though, you can get the same Telus branded Curve at Walmart, for $198.83. For more details check it out at the Telus website.
Unlocked-Mobiles.Com Offering The Blackberry Bold 9790 SIM Free In The UK
August 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For £304.98 users in the UK can get one of the white Blackberry Bold 9790s. It is only the white version that they are offering, but I still think this is a good deal. You also get next day delivery.
Video: New Blackberry Commercial In Thailand
August 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
YouTube Mobile Link We all know Blackberry is a fan favorite over in Thailand. Here’s the latest Blackberry commercial by RIM. It features Blackberry 7 but doesn’t have English subtitles.
