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Following up on their December update with chat and push notifications, Facebook is launching a new discount engine for their Android app; now when you use Places to check in and share where you are with your social network, businesses can offer you particular perks. Participating locals have a yellow icon next to them if…
Some developers for Microsoft’s high-tech table, the Surface, have created a mobile app for iOS, optimized for both the iPhone and iPad, which lets you share all sorts of multimedia and files between each other without needing the awkward tags that the Surface usually needs. When the app is running, Amnesia Connect basically turns an…
The other week, we got a good look at a variety of new BlackBerrys coming down the pipe, but as per usual, GSM carriers will be the first ones to the party. CDMA carriers won’t be completely left out though, and they’ll even have one handset that the GSM guys won’t – the BlackBerry Curve…
As a result of civil unrest in Egypt, BlackBerry service provided by the three main carriers there, Mobinil, Vodafone, and Etisalat, has been shut down, according to a flood of tweets from the area. Twitter and Facebook access has already been restricted in order to clamp down on the organization of further protests. BlackBerry’s blockage…
On their quarterly conference call today, Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, mentioned that they must “build, catalyze, and/or join a competitive ecosystem.” That last bit definitely sounds an awful lot like Nokia’s considering supporting another operating system on top of MeeGo for the upper-range and Symbian for their lower-range handsets, but Elop went on to…
We had caught a glimpse of the OtterBox case for RIM’s first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, but a crisp render of the full product has slipped out, and it looks pretty sweet. This is the Defender Series, which is Otterbox’s toughest lineup, consisting of a hard plastic frame, a rubber exterior, and a plastic screen…
We’ve heard launch dates for the Motorola Atrix 4G being tossed around a fair bit, ranging from March 1 to as soon as February 13. We now have an even later window, March 17, to add to the pile, and some confirmation that it’s coming to Canada by way of Bell. A later launch date…
After a little bit of drama, the Kongregate Arcade app is now back on the Android Market, complete with access to the 300-odd achievement-laden Flash games. So what was all the fuss with being pulled by Google in the first place? Well, Google thought the Arcade was too much of a competing marketplace, which is…
Some old rumours about RIM’s first tablet running Android are cropping up again. The BlackBerry PlayBook will definitely be getting support for Java apps (so your old BlackBerry apps will work on the tablet in some capacity), but the particular virtual machine they use hasn’t been nailed down. According to the latest rumour, RIM may…
We got a sneak peek at upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server features the other week, detailing Balance, a new initiative from RIM to support folks who buy their own device and want to be able to use it for both work and play. The main thing has been to keep personal and professional data distinct and…