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Microsoft’s Photosynth software has landed on iPhone, allowing folks to take multiple pictures which are automatically stitched together in a full 360-degree panorama. The nice thing about Photosynth pictures is that they don’t just produce a horizontal strip, but they also stitch vertically, giving the full sensation of standing at a particular spot. The app…
The BlackBerry PlayBook was released to the public yesterday, and it’s already been fully disassembled for inspection by some hardware experts. A lot of the components have come from Texas Instruments (not just the processor). From a repairability standpoint, the PlayBook is easy enough to open, using standard screws, but replacing the battery requires you…
The BlackBerry PlayBook launched yesterday with little more than a home screen shortcut to the Facebook web page. Though admittedly, Facebook renders pretty nicely on RIM’s first tablet, a real app is what we’re waiting, and by the looks of this demo from Adobe, it’s not far off. Adobe was showing off a bunch of…
BlackBerry Bridge, the app which promises to bring all of your core smartphone apps to RIM’s latest tablet, has gone live with the launch of the PlayBook today. Despite a few hiccups with the app rollout, I managed to get my Torch 9800 paired up with the PlayBook just fine, and it’s now showing all…
Now that the BlackBerry PlayBook is out and in the wild, RIM has updated their software development kits so app-makers have some polished tools to work with. With WebWorks 2.0, RIM has separated JavaScript APIs from the OS, which should make it easy to add new and alter existing APIs through their open source project…
The BlackBerry PlayBook is launching on April 19 after a long six months of anticipation. As Research In Motion’s first tablet and the initial release of their new QNX-based operating system, it will be setting the bar for many future BlackBerry devices to come. Tablets are still a nascent form factor, with lots of room…
We’ve seen glimpses of the upcoming touchscreen BlackBerry Bold here in North America, but RIM’s a global company, it looks like they’re getting ready to launch it worldwide. A batch of hands-on pictures of the Bold Touch 9900 (code-named Dakota) have surfaced in Latin America, where it was compared to the Bold 9700 and Torch.…
BlackBerry smartphones aren’t the only ones that have to worry about getting keeping access in India. In a communication between home and telecom ministries, it was asked that a hold was placed on the sale of Nokia devices with push e-mail until monitoring systems were in place. This is part of a new standards compliance…
Following up on his Bloomberg interview last week, RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke with the Wall Street Journal about not only reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook, but also the ongoing security situation in India and a few other issues. Balsillie replied to Walt Mossberg’s “codependent” label of the PlayBook by calling the relationship between RIM’s…
Jim Balsillie stepped up to the plate in an interview with Bloomberg recently, in the wake of disappointed BlackBerry PlayBook reviews. Contrary to the picture above, Balsillie was actually confident, composed, and very optimistic about the future of their tablet and its new operating system. He put a lot of weight behind the updates that…