• Bug fixes in Preview window and when switching cameras during Video calling
• Improvements in contact search in Skype Directory
• Easy Skype Credit purchase from within the Skype app
• Stability improvements and other bug fixes

Head on over to BlackBerry World for the update.

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If you did not know already QNX is what powers tons of things around the world from cars to the space shuttle and lots in between. Well QNX has put together a great video showing off just how powerful QNX is. The video puts emphasis on the Blackberry 10 devices which are incrediable. Here is what the description had to say on the video posted on QNXCam YouTube channel:

QNX Software Systems has spent the last 30+ years perfecting its ultra-reliable software, now used everywhere reliability, performance, and connectivity matter – like the international space station, next-generation smartphones, and more …

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Head on over to AT&T to get signed up!

Thanks Bill for sending this one in!

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Well let the rumors start swirling around when it comes to BlackBerry OS 10.1! In an article from BBNews.pl BlackBerry 10.1 will bring some great new features and enhancements to the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10. The new features and enhancements are said to bring HDR, improved camera speed and more!

• Improved camera that runs faster
• Camera can capture HDR (High-dynamic-range) pictures to capture a wider range of light and dark in a picture
• The ability to send PIN messages from the hub
• A connection from the Phone to your computer over BlackBerry Link allowing you to access PC files

These new features and enhancements above are not the full change log, at this time this is still just a rumor so take it as you will.

Via: BerryReview

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 We promised that Viber would be released during April, and we intend to live up to this promise   The release is very close now.

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MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – April 4, 2013) - Don Morrison, former Chief Operating Officer of Research in Motion (now BlackBerry) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Yellow Media Limited (TSX:Y), as disclosed in the company’s proxy circular released today in connection with its annual meeting of shareholders to be held on May 7, 2013.

Under his tenure, RIM expanded to more than 175 countries around the world and fiscal year revenues grew from approximately $200 million to nearly $20 billion. Mr. Morrison retired from RIM in 2011.

“Don’s disciplined approach to operational excellence and the tradition of success he built over his career make him a strong addition to the Board of Directors of Yellow Media as we work with the management team to deliver the company’s digital transformation,” said Robert MacLellan, Chairman of the Board.

In the circular, Yellow Media also stated that Marc P. Tellier, who will be stepping down as President and Chief Executive Officer as announced by the company last week, will not stand for re-election to the company’s Board of Directors. Yellow Media also disclosed details of his separation agreement.

• $4.3 million in separation pay based on Mr. Tellier’s employment agreement stipulating entitlement to 300% of the sum of both base salary ($825,000) and annual bonus for the preceding year ($606,000).
• Annual pension of $455,086 beginning in 2033 when Mr. Tellier reaches 65 years of age.

“We applied the bonus commitments and employment terms of Mr. Tellier’s employment agreement which was struck in 2002,” stated Mr. MacLellan. “Our focus is now on continuing to move this company forward by executing the established strategy and prioritizing the naming of a new Chief Executive Officer to spearhead the transformation.”

A search committee of the Yellow Media Board of Directors was established to undertake the search for a new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Tellier shall remain with Yellow Pages Group to assist with the transition process until his successor is named but will step down no later than August 15, 2013.

About Yellow Media Limited

Yellow Media Limited (TSX:Y) is a leading media and marketing solutions company in Canada. The Company owns and operates some of Canada’s leading properties and publications including Yellow Pages™ print directories, YellowPages.ca™, Canada411.ca and RedFlagDeals.com™. Its online destinations reach 9 million unique visitors monthly and its mobile applications for finding local businesses and deals have been downloaded over 5 million times. Yellow Media Limited is also a leader in national digital advertising through Mediative, a digital advertising and marketing solutions provider to national agencies and advertisers.

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Bumblebee Computing has released Think-4-U Music Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook. I have been using Think-4-U Music Player for a few days and I am truly blown away at all of the features this application has! The number one feature I adore has to be the ability to learn from your listening habits. Basically, the application builds an adaptive playlist customized to your liking this is called Think Mode.

Think-4-U Music for the BlackBerry PlayBook offers all kinds of great features from the Think Mode to the Gesture-enabled UI! The Gesture-enabled UI let’s you use gestures to navigate through your music with ease: swipe left for next song; swipe right for previous; quickly scroll through list of your music library using a velocity sensitive flick gesture; single tap on viewing area to toggle play/pause.

Playlists:

• Create unlimited custom playlists with ease using a drag-and-drop interface
• Create playlist directly from a folder
• Quickly add songs to “My Favorites” playlist with one tap
• Create a dynamic playlist based on the search results
• Recognizes and plays .m3u playlists created from programs like iTunes

Think-4-U Music for the BlackBerry PlayBook supports the following formats mp3, wma, wav, m4a, and aac. You your MP3′s have lyrics enabled, it will show them in the application as the song is playing. Album artwork will be present if it is available, if not it will pull Flickr’s interesting image of the day.

Think-4-U Music also lets you do an “Instant global search”  this provides you the ability to quickly search for the songs you are looking for across artist, song title, and album name. Use the results as a dynamic playlist!, “Auto-resume” automatically resume the song you were playing in the playlist, “Sleep-timer” fall asleep to your favorite songs and have player turn off at the interval of your choosing.

Movie formats are also supported on the PlayBook including mp4, mov, m4v, and so on.

Head on over to BlackBerry World to pick up Think-4-U Music for the BlackBerry PlayBook for only $.99 (it is on sale)

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“What we’re excited about is these little gems coming out,” Lazaridis said in an interview in Toronto. “The medical tricorder would be astounding, the whole idea of blood tests, MRIs – imagine if you could do that with a single device. That may be possible and possible only because of the sensitivity, selectivity and resolution we can get from quantum sensors made with these quantum breakthroughs.”

He has donated $100 million to the  Mike & Ophelia  Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre in Waterloo, Ontario, the approach of this new centre will recreate  the conditions that made AT&T Inc.’s Bell Labs a center of technological innovation what  it was back in the 1960s to be the new groundwork for the success of  Silicon Valley.

The new research center is designed to produce breakthroughs in the  science and technology of things approaching the size of an atom. It’s  “absolutely” going to be the Bell Labs of the 21st century, Lazaridis said

Mike said that he is now devoting most of his time to help get the  Quantum-Nano Centre off the ground and to form a cluster of cutting-edge  research with the decade-old Institute for  Quantum Computing and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, both founded  with a total of more than $250 million of his own money and additional funds he  helped raise.

The facilities will be enough to lure the brightest minds in the field to Canada, Lazaridis  said.

Mike Lazaridis also commented on the new BlackBerry computing system in saying that  “People that have used it for a while really start to appreciate it — they start to see its real potential” he said. “It’s a very powerful operating platform.”

We are glad to hear such news from good ole Mike! What do you think of Mike’s 100 Million Dollar investment?

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Source: N4BBviaBloomberg

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BlackBerry Navigator has been updated in the Beta Zone, and now includes support for a few OS6 devices and all OS7 devices. BlackBerry Navigator has been updated to include a few more countries as well including Canada, United States, Puerto Rico, Germany, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Device Availability:

OS7 – 9320/9350/9360/9370/9380/9790/9810/9850/9860/9900/9930/9981

OS6 – 9300/9330/9650/9670/9700/9780/9800

Download BlackBerry Navigator from BlackBerry Beta Zone

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The PPSSPP team has been working on the PSP emulator for BlackBerry devices.  The newest update v0.7 and now it is available for sideloading with updates to include:

• Compatibility has gone up dramatically
• speed has increased drastically (especially on mobile)
• There’s even horizontal tilt control
• Some newly playable games are God of War (very slow though, but this will probably be fixed in the near future), Virtua Tennis, Megaman: Maverick Hunter X, Saint Seiya and games like Ace Combat X go in game.

Hit the jump to get updates and download the PSP Enulator from PPSSPP

Download PSP Enulator from PPSSPP

Source: BerryReview

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