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Apple’s iPad has been a tremendous success with mainstream consumer but the “magical” tablet is also gaining some corporate fans as Wells Fargo, SAP, Mercedes and even the White House are using the device for business purposes. According to a report by Bloomberg, the Apple iPad is being used by multiple businesses for things like…
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software has just been updated to version 5.0.2, now allowing end-users to buy their own BlackBerry and use them for work without setting off alarms. Inside BlackBerry hinted at this feature not too long ago, and focused on the security implications of allowing outside users to bring in their own devices.…
I’ve known for awhile now that my bud Hedone Hawker was busy working away on a killer iPhone theme for BlackBerry. I knew it was coming, but when? How about TODAY!? After popping open my email this morning I was warmly greeted with an email from Hedone. He told me briefly about his new BlackBerry…
This morning we’ve got a trio of videos showing the breadth of RIM’s immediately upcoming BlackBerry lineup, featuring the 9800 slider code-named Talladega (launching as either the Bold or the Torch), the 9670 clamshell code-named Oxford, and the BlackBerry Curve 9300, also known as the Kepler. First up, the BlackBerry 9670 that’s being reviewed is…
BlackBerry Twitter fanatics can start getting excited now as the official Twitter for BlackBerry application has finally grown out of beta. We’re proud to see that the app has graduated into full, official status and with it comes a whole slew of new features and improvements. It’s about time after so many beta updates. Letting…
Looks like the good folks at SHAPE Services have been working hard on IM+ for BlackBerry yet again. They’ve just released an update for the all-in-one messaging app for BlackBerry. The update brings us up to version 8.5, and besides the usual box full of slight modifications and bug fixes, the developers have added a…
While visiting Canada for our national holiday on the 1st., Queen Elizabeth II swung by Waterloo to visit our country’s most successful company, Research in Motion. She got a white BlackBerry Bold 9700, and stayed at the RIM assembling facilities for less than a half hour. The Queen’s not the first one in the royal…
The unannounced BlackBerry Curve 9300 has earned its FCC wings today, including support for CDMA and AWS bands. We’ve seen a lot of the BlackBerry 9300, code-named Kepler, but there are still a few unclear details, like whether it has 256 MB or 512 MB of application memory, or if it will be launching with…
It’s been a somewhat slow week on the BlackBerry OS scene. Not many updates or leaks to tell you about, so I’m going to keep this brief. Listed below are the updates I’ve noticed over the past week or so. Click the links to download the operating systems listed, however, be sure to backup your…
The post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online game, Fallen Earth, released an iPhone and Android companion app not too long ago to stay in touch with your clanmates, keep an eye on auctions, and use as a general game reference. The same functions are now available on BlackBerry, shown in some of the screenshots above. I actually…