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BlackBerry users can now get in on some features introduced in Foursquare for the iPhone back in August. Now instead of just checking into a place, you can check into events, which usually means movies, but also concerts and sports matches. I tend to use GetGlue when it comes to entertainment check-ins, but I’ll be…
The latest report from Distimo is focusing on Windows Phone, partly as a celebration of its one-year birthday. Among their findings were figures for daily app downloads in the U.S., which includes 20,000 paid downloads each day, and 101,000 free apps each day. Distimo also agrees with other recent metrics that puts the total number…
Although it’s a little behind Rogers, Mobilicity and and Mobile have announced immediate availability of the BlackBerry Torch 9810. The BlackBerry Torch 9810 is one of RIM’s newer OS 7 devices, being roughly on par with the Bold 9900, despite being packaged identically to the year-old Torch 9800. The 9810 runs on a 1.2 Ghz…
Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney predicts Amazon will sell 12 million Kindle Fire tablets in 2012, which works out to 15% of the tablet market. Mahaney forecasts that 20 million units will be sold in 2013, and the price will get knocked down to $179, but we’ll see if that pans out. Of course, Amazon is…
RIM was hosting a little get-together in Toronto today called the BlackBerry Innovation Forum where they were showing off a bunch of the stand-alone apps for the PlayBook that we’ve been waiting for, including e-mail, contacts, calendar. There aren’t any big surprises here, other than maybe a little more blue in the UI than we’re…
NPD has concluded in a recent study that the TouchPad, HP’s last webOS product for the foreseeable future, turned out to be the second-most popular tablet in the U.S. so far this year. While it might seem crazy that a dead platform managed to beat out a dearth of Android competition (namely from Samsung), the…
Just when you thought the old BlackBerry platform was toast in preparation for BBX, RIM introduces a fresh feature to their old Java-based operating system. Given, FM radio isn’t what you’d call a mind-blowing new addition, it’s good to see RIM is starting to offer outside developers access to the near-field communications chips that we’ve…
Bell has announced that December 8 will be the launch day for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in Canada, with a pricetag sitting at $159.95 on a three-year contract, or $649.95 with no strings attached. When Bell initially made their announcement, there was some fishy language revolving around exclusivity, but from what I’ve gathered, it only extends over…
RIM has just launched a new beta for their signature BlackBerry Messenger app. The biggest feature in BBM 6.1 is support for animated .GIF files as profile pictures. Sounds obnoxious? You betcha. Thankfully, they only come to life when you hover over them, unlike the jolly fellow to the left who will ROFL until the…
While it’s exciting to see Android apps running on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with some degree of stability, you know what I really want to be able to play on there? Nibbles. Thanks to some tinkering by the BlackBerry community at large, popular emulation program DOSBox has been jammed into a BAR file and runs…