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Those of you into music, and more specifically music videos, will have probably heard of Vevo. They offer over 25,000 free legal Flash-powered music videos, namely on YouTube, thanks to partnerships with Universal and Sony. Some welcome news out of BlackBerry World last week was that they’re going to be launching a PlayBook app to…
Over the course of BlackBerry World last week, Xobni, a popular e-mail inbox management app (coming soon to Android and iPhone), updated to version 2.0.28 with a giant heaping fistful of new features. For starters, free users can now enjoy limited daily universal searches (a feature previously held back for premium customers). There are also…
One app to make its debut at BlackBerry World last week was Unsubscribe. They’ve been getting cozy with desktop e-mail through Outlook and Gmail since late last year, and are now moving into mobile starting with BlackBerry. While any decent e-mail-based marketing not caught by your built-in spam filter will offer an “unsubscribe me” link,…
Back at Mobile World Congress, RIM’s new Sweden arm, The Astonishing Tribe, showed us a few apps that demonstrated the graphical capabilities of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. One of them, though not exactly pushing the 3D boundaries of the device, did show what some simple imagination could accomplish. Scrapbook let you take locally stored images…
As a part of the announcement of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 this week, RIM showcased a preloaded augmented reality app that we’ve seen on other platforms called Wikitude. Since the 9900 is the first BlackBerry to include a magnetic compass and the right display overlay software, it’s the first to support AR apps. To give…
Here at the BlackBerry World conference, RIM’s Sweden team (better known as The Astonishing Tribe) has been very busy, not only pumping out the Scrapbook app we saw at Mobile World Congress for public consumption, but also doing some cool stuff with the upcoming native software development kit for the BlackBerry PlayBook. TAT has a…
RIM has spent a lot of time cultivating and justifying Bridge, the Bluetooth pairing process that shares data between a BlackBerry smartphone and the new PlayBook tablet. Though they haven’t opened up that potentially promising mechanism to third-party app developers yet, that hasn’t stopped location-based search app, Poynt, from offering a pairing connection through standard…
The clever guys at RIM-owned The Astonishing Tribe have ported the open-source first-gen Quake game to the BlackBerry PlayBook, and have the game running in multiplayer across three tablets. One device acted as the server, and all three could handle laser beams, explosions, and gibby body parts all while maintaining 60 frames per second. RIM…
Jaguar and RIM are working closely at BlackBerry World to offer a product similar to what we’ve seen with Ford Sync and BMW ConnectedDrive. The big difference here is that Jaguar is putting the BlackBerry screen exactly as you see it on your phone onto the in-car dash system, complete with touchscreen responsiveness. Combined with…
Yesterday, RIM announced the latest addition to the Bold family, the 9900, and at the BlackBerry World show we got some time to play around with it. It is indeed their slimmest BlackBerry to date, and the first in a long line of upcoming devices to support augmented reality apps, near-field communications, and big horsepower.…