Google, RIM, Brad Feld, Robert Scoble and others join Alliance in commitment to serve developers, drive industry innovation and growth Washington, D.C., (April 2, 2012) – Many of the top names in application development, app integration and digital media have joined theApplication Developers Alliance and are among its founding board of directors. The board will convene for [...]
ADA (Application Developers Alliance) Includes Alec Saunders on The Board of Directors
BlackBerry 10 Jam – May 1-3
RIM has announce the dates for BlackBerry 10 Jam! Time for developers to dig into BlackBerry® 10 and get ready to build. On the BlackBerry DevBlog, http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/03/join-us-at-blackberry-10-jam/, RIM today announced that it will host BlackBerry 10 Jam on May 1-3 as a concurrent conference to BlackBerry World™, the largest annual gathering for the BlackBerry® ecosystem.
RIM is “Committed to Helping Our Developers Transition to BlackBerry 10”!!
Tim Neil, RIMs Director of Application Platform & Tools Product Management has stated during Mobile World Congress Developer Day that: RIM is “committed to helping our developers with the transition to BlackBerry 10.”
Analytics Service Webworks Extension Now Available For Blackberries
RIM has finally released the Analytics Service Webworks extension and now app developers can get it for their Blackberries. Previously it was for Java developers only.
6600 Newly Registered Developers in 11 Days for BlackBerry!
Talk about big news for RIM Alec Saunders RIM’s head of Developer Relations, posted a tweet that was just to good not to post her on NerdBerry. RIM has recived 6600 new developers registered for App World!
Video: Developers attend the first BlackBerry #DevCon Europe 2012 !
Check out our highlights video from day 1 of the first BlackBerry DevCon Europe in Amsterdam. Event speakers and attendees discuss developing on the BlackBerry platform.
Welcome to the first BlackBerry #DevCon Europe!
Rob Orr – VP, EMEA Product Management & Rory O’Neill – VP, EMEA Marketing give their thoughts on the first BlackBerry DevCon Europe taking place tomorrow in Amsterdam on 7th – 8th February 2012.
Devs: RIM Details One of the Ways to Get Your App Featured in App World
RIM has not been very secretive when it comes to what needs to be done to get your apps featured in App World. In one of their previous blog posts they published a cheat sheet on exactly what needed to be done to garner a spot on the top.
RIM Welcoming Android Aggregator Developers to Submit App Catalogs to App World
We told you about Handster Android Applications Showing up in App World for the PlayBook! Well it seems as though RIM wants more Android developers to submit their apps to App World. We’ve received awesome feedback from our developer community since launching the developer toolset for the conversion and packaging of Android apps for the [...]
Developers: RIM Opensources Java & WebWorks UI Frameworks
RIM has made significant progress with the WebWorks platform. WebWorks is pretty solid development platform on the BlackBerry PlayBook, and now RIM has opened up the WebWorkds and Java UI framework to developers by making it opensource making things more useful and easier using the new BBUI.js framework
“BlackBerry Market Shrinking” Myth Busted! 70 Million Active Subscribers!
RIM has been in the news with reports of them being inched out by Android, But with great news of the Blackberry Playbook rocking RIM sales. So it should not come as to any surprise that RIM has crushed a myth that the “Blackberry Market is Shrinking” There are currently 70 million active subscribers, 20 million [...]
Alec Saunders Confirms and Details New BBX Features
We Nerds here just can wait until the BBX platform is to be release soon, just not soon enough! We are look forward to some of the upcoming feature such as today that, it will included the new 4G LTE making BBX just that much better. Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development, recently [...]
UPDATE AGAIN: Mobihand Possibly Nearing Bankruptcy: Doesn’t Pay Developer(s)
Here is a zinger for all of you on this wonderful Friday. BlackBerryCool has posted some startling information regarding MobiHand. It looks like they are on the freeway to bankruptcy. This report has some backing and substantial information, so this is not your normal upset customer complaint situation. Hit the break for the rest of the story.
Find Developer Events Worldwide on RIM’s Developer Calendar
If you are a developer for BlackBerry and have been wanting to easily find all the events that RIM is either hosting or taking part in there is now a way. RIM has posted all their developer events on the official Developer Calendar, and it includes events all around the world. So if you are [...]
BlackBerry 7 Devices will remain themeless until mid 2012
Now this is some truly bad news to end the day with. During a recent interview with CIO.com RIM’s new VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, revealed the time frame for an update to the Theme Studio software to allow developers to make themes for BlackBerry 7 devices. Sadly it appears that we will have [...]
Video Round up from DevCon 2011!
Wikitude at BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011: Interview with Martin Herdina
RIM Shares How BlackBerry Devs Make Money in App World
RIM has shared some information at BlackBerry DevCon. Dr. Ronjon Nag, Vice President of Blackberry App World, gives stats from Blakcberry App World. Many of which we already knew, he stated that %13 of Blackberry Devloper make over $100,000 from the World of apps, which is considerably more than Android or Apple in which only 1% do. Hit the jump for a [...]
T-Mobile Offering Developers a Free BlackBerry Curve 9360 With 2 Year Contract
T-Mobile is now offering the BlackBerry Curve to developers for free with a two-year contract! The deal is almost the same as it was on the Bold 9900 from T-Mobile. The way this deal works is you pay $50 up-front and get a $50 mail-in-rebate. With the two-year contract there is no activation fee and [...]
What’s In Store For DevCon Americas 2011?
We all know that DevCon Americas 201will take place in San Francisco and will run from October 18th to the 20th. The BlackBerry Developer’s Blog has put a nice list together of what you can expect while at DevCon this year. Check out what’s in store for all that attend!
BlackBerry PlayBook Native SDK beta being made available to certain developers
The one thing that we have been waiting for for PlayBook development is the native SDK from RIM. It seems that certain developers have just now been given access to a beta version of the native SDK. The chosen developers have received an email from RIM inviting them to download the SDK and start working [...]






