We already saw a press release today from QNX about their plans to team up with SIAT CAS in making a Center for Excellence in China. Now they have released another press release about their new partnership with Dalian Eastern Display Co., Ltd. The new partnership with combine QNX’s embedded software with the smart appliances and LCD screens that [...]
QNX and SIAT CAS to establish Center of Excellence in China for Embedded Software Systems
June 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
QNX has released a few press releases today letting everyone know that they are branching out into some new endeavours. Not all these new endeavours will directly relate to the QNX side of BlackBerry, but mainly to do the automotive and embedded software solutions that the company is renowned for. However the partnership to establish [...]
New EPSN Stations On Slacker Radio
June 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Slacker Radio has launched 6 new live radio stations for their streaming service. This includes Spanish ESPN stations, also national and regional ESPN stations. There is no way you are going to miss any sports news in New York, LA, Chicago or Dallas. There’s a slacker app you can get for Blackberry from www.slacker.com. For [...]
iOS 6 announcement leaves BlackBerry 10 unswayed in RIM’s intended position
June 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
Yesterday at the keynote for WWDC, Apple unveiled the new features of iOS 6. It has been speculated that iOS 6 and the new iPhone (whether it be iPhone 5 or whatever they decide to call it) would mean the automatic failure of BlackBerry 10. After watching the keynote and reading up on all the [...]
iOS apps running on the BlackBerry PlayBook thanks to Emulator
June 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
When you think of the BlackBerry PlayBook you obviously think about how RIM has allowed for Android apps to be used on the tablet. Now we never thought that we would see iOS apps running on anything other than an Apple mobile device, but apparently someone forgot to mention this fact to one developer. There [...]
Read It Offline RSS Reader for the BlackBerry PlayBook
June 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I am always looking for different ways to get news from website to RSS feed applications for my BlackBerry to my PlayBook. The RSS feed applications I use most are BerryReader from Bellshare on my BlackBerry Bold 9900 to Pipeline Pro from Magnoware on my PlayBook. Today, Read It Offline By The Pumping Lemma Company has [...]
Details for the T-Mobile Father’s Day Sale get released
June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It is starting to become a tradition that T-Mobile runs an awesome Father’s Day sale. This year T-Mobile is offering up all “4G” phones for “free” during the weekend sale. Now of course there are a bunch of rules, and you will have to send in for a mail-in-rebate, but essentially the phones will be [...]
ShutUp Camera gets pulled from BlackBerry AppWorld, Still available in the Nerdberry Store
June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
When RIM pulls apps from AppWorld it isn’t always apparent to the rest of us as to why. ShutUp Camera by Devcellent Solutions was recently removed by RIM from AppWorld for unknown reasons. The app allows you to use the native camera app without the shutter noise. Personally I like to have no shutter sound [...]
T-Mobile stores start to receive Father’s Day promo materials
June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Well it looks like T-Mobile is going to be running another awesome Father’s Day promotion again. As you can see from the promo material that has already started to arrive in stores it looks like we are going to see another “All Phones Free!” promotion. Well we do not have that many details yet, I [...]
Go in the right direction with Compass for the BlackBerry PlayBook
June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The BlackBerry PlayBook is home to numerous sensors that have yet to be highlighted by a lot of apps. One app that is definitely using the magnetometer very well is Compass from mappau OG. The developer has made a very user-friendly compass that does not require the user to move the PlayBook around to get [...]
Uppidy adds enterprise support to their text messaging backup service
June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Uppidy has provided text message backup service for a little while now that allows you to save and search your SMS messages in the cloud. Today they have announced that they are adding Enterprise support to their app, which will focus on company issues devices. The idea is that companies will be able to monitor [...]
9mm HD from Gameloft gets updated to v2.0
June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For all you PlayBook owners that have been playing Gameloft’s 9mm HD game, you will be happy to know that it has received an update today. While we do not have a changelog as of yet, if version numbers are any indication this one is a big update as it has jumped from v1.0 to [...]
Rim discontinuing the 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook?
June 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
According to an email that a Crackberry forum member received it looks like RIM is going to be discontinuing the 16GB variant of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Really this doesn’t come as much of a surprise to us for several reasons. The main one being that the 16GB version isn’t really suitable for the media hungry [...]
BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK and Ripple Emulator updated
June 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
At BlackBerry World and BlackBerry 10 Jam RIM made the commitment that they were going to try to release frequent updates to all the developers tools in the lead up tp BB10 hitting the market. Today on the BlackBerry DevBlog RIM announced that they have updated the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK and Ripple Emulator, which [...]
IDC predicts Windows Phone will surpass BlackBerry by 2016
June 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
While Android and iOS are fighting over the top spot in the mobile market share, the bronze medal is currently up for contention as well. The IDC has released a new report today that shows where they believe the mobile market is trending through to 2016. Their reason for giving Windows Phone an edge over [...]
Official UEFA EURO 2012 App With Orange For Blackberry
June 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
The UEFA European Football Championship is just days away, starting June 8th. Orange has put out the app just in time, so you won’t miss out on the action. Features: The official UEFA EURO 2012 app with Orange gives you access to the final tournament of the 14th UEFA European Football Championship. It will be [...]
Ford bringing their Sync AppLink technology to Asia, starting with the Focus in Taiwan
June 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In the current mobile market more and more “non-mobile” companies are looking for ways to get into the mobile game. Ford has done an excellent job in this with their Sync AppLink technology, and they announced today that they are bringing it to Asia. AppLink will make a debut in Taiwan with the new Ford [...]
Cricket launches the BlackBerry Curve 9350 for $199.99
June 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Today Cricket has announced the addition of the BlackBerry Curve 9350 to their lineup. The 9350 will cost you $199.99 and will be available on the $55 unlimited talk, text and data plan without a contract. This is a great option for any BlackBerry fans out there that are looking to avoid the large monthly [...]
RIM Builds Up Infrastructure For Upcoming LTE Devices?
June 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
Since it has been confirmed that there will be a Playbook LTE and on the Blackberry 10 devices, then RIM has to have the infrastructure for it to work. Though unconfirmed by RIM, it has been made known to several sources that RIM is getting it’s network prepared for the next generation devices.
Job placement assistance available to former RIM employees
June 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
With the talk of layoffs at RIM I am sure that there are quite a few employees that are worrying about where their next paycheck will come from if they are one of the unlucky ones. Thorsten Heins spoke of RIM looking to save around $1 billion this year, and of course that does mean [...]
