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New plug-ins for the Eclipse and Visual Studio development environments have been announced that will help application makers get started with web apps for BlackBerry. RIM’s latest push to support web apps was made at the last BlackBerry Developer Conference, so there has been sufficient time to get dev feedback and polish the tools. With these plugins, hopefully we’ll see some rich web-powered apps that won’t hinge on limited device-side resources, but let’s give developers some time to make something. If web apps are your bag, you can get started with the Microsoft Visual Studio plug-in here and the Eclipse plug-in here.
[via MarketWire]
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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.
