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BlackBerry Beta Zone Now Open for Asia Pacific Region along with Puerto Rico and Philippines
BlackBerry Beta Zone welcomes new members from more countries than ever! Residents in the Asia Pacific region along with Puerto Rico are invited to come join the site today! In addition to Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, BlackBerry Beta Zone membership is now open to people from the following countries: Bangladesh Hong Kong Malaysia Philippines Puerto Rico Singapore Taiwan... Contine Reading > >
New BlackBerry Wall Charger Adapter from RIM
Instead of shipping wall charger and a data cable separately, RIM has redesigned the wall charger which now includes USB plug where the data cable can be plugged to charge the BlackBerry. This makes sense, as there is no need to carry two cables and now users have less weight to carry while travelling. Contine Reading > > Read More →
Viigo is Now Part of Research In Motion
Viigo has announced today that they are now a part of Research In Motion. This is very surprising Friday evening news from no where however it’s great for folks over at Viigo to built a very useful app and bringing it to this level in a short time. Viigo is among the top 10 favorite apps for many BlackBerry users (including myself). Read the full announcement after the jump. Contine Reading >... Contine Reading > >
BlackBerry Beta Zone Open to the General Public
RIM today opened up the BlackBerry Beta zone to general public and inviting new members to join this program. This is the first time BlackBerry Beta Zone has been open to the general public. Currently RIM has BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 beta on board which starts at April 1st and will run for eight weeks. Contine Reading > > Read More →
BIS 3.0 Rolling Out on March 28th to North American Users
After the official announcement of BIS 3.0 features on the knowledge center two weeks ago, it appears now RIM is giving advance alert to all North American BIS users about the 4 hours downtime scheduled on next Sunday during which RIM will be upgrading their servers to support BIS 3.0. Read the details of the upgrade after the jump. Contine Reading > > Read More →
Add Your BlackBerry Messenger Barcode To Your Facebook Profile
We have covered the Barcode (QR code) feature introduced in BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 many times on this blog. Today RIM introduced the Facebook app for BlackBerry Barcode Generator on their official BlackBerry Facebook page. This Facebook app allows you to use your BlackBerry PIN to create a BBM barcode that you can: Show it off on your Facebook profile pic Feature it on your Facebook profile page... Contine Reading > >
Blackberry Push Service Now Available to All App Developers
This is great news coming straight from Official BlackBerry Developer’s Blog announcing the release of BlackBerry Push Service SDK to app developers. The push service enables developers to develop Java apps or BlackBerry widgets that leverage RIM’s famous push technology to push images,text or audio content to millions of devices at once. With this I am sure we’ll see more super apps coming... Contine Reading > >
RIM Introduces BlackBerry Storm2 in Australia and New Zealand
I thought the remaining wireless carriers are waiting for BlackBerry Storm2 to get positive media coverage and widespread acceptance before introducing it. Well, the BlackBerry Storm2 looks very positive with the enhanced touch screen and RIM introducing it for customers in Australia and New Zealand. Read the press release after the jump. Contine Reading > > Read More →
RIM to Manufacture BlackBerry in Brazil Starting with Curve 8520
Jim Balsillie announced that RIM has signed an accord with Singapore’s Flextronics to manufacture the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Brazil. RIM may consider producing other models in Brazil in the future. Co-Chief Executive Jim Basillie said “This is part of a greater market strategy at RIM to target Latin America. It is extremely important for us to be here to manufacture locally and sell locally,”.... Contine Reading > >
BlackBerry Dominates US Market As Per Latest Reports
RIM’s BlackBerry platform dominates the US smartphone market as per the recent data from comScore. ComScore has released their latest survey results and shows BlackBerry platform dominates with 42.7 million BlackBerry smartphone users in the US. The data has been collected from November 2009 to January 2010. According to comScore, BlackBerry grew by 1.7% from November to January, while Apple... Contine Reading > >
