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One of the few official app launches occurring at the BlackBerry Developer Conference comes from PageOnce for BlackBerry. These guys are tapping into a wide variety of APIs and partnerships to provide live feeds of information from many, many services. I talked to the head honcho in the press room earlier today, and he gave me a bit of a demo. It was really incredible how you could see Netflix, investments, e-mail, bills, everything, from under one roof. Think of it as a Facebook News Feed for all of your personal information. Although BlackBerry just launched today, there’s been an iPhone app out there for a little while now. Very cool stuff, and hopefully they’ll see some love with the upcoming BlackBerry Application Center when it launches in March. Also, good on ‘em for making a low-contrast UI. I think a lot of people overlook the fact that using a mostly-white screen is like staring into a lightbulb.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
