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Scattered reports are indicating that RIM is cutting a pretty sweet deal on the BlackBerry PlayBook to those in the family. Employees will be able to snag up to five 16 GB tablets for $100 a pop, apparently. The 32 GB only costs $149, and the 64 GB version is going for $199. Those of…
It looks like Best Buy over-promised to customers eager to snag a BlackBerry PlayBook for $300 off. Despite having the same attractive offer as many retailers over Black Friday and the weekend, Best Buy appears to be unable to fulfill many (and some say all) orders of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Prices were as low as…
Finally. After at least 8 months of coy glances at mobile Wi-Fi hotspot functionality in BlackBerry smartphones, we’re starting to see some real results. A leaked OS for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 (version 7.1.0.74) will let you share your cellular data connection to nearby Wi-Fi-enabled devices. Those who have tested out the OS are also…
Black Friday is upon us, and if you aren’t already knee-deep in the sales, let us help you out. BlackBerry devices are on sale across the board, but the big one is the $200 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook sale. That’s been going for a few weeks now, so stock might be tricky, but right now…
Today, Indonesia was set to be the first country in the world to get the BlackBerry Bold 9790, and now we can see why. Over a thousand people lined up at a big BlackBerry store in south Jakarta, which is great and all, but the crowd got a little antsy since the Bold 9790 would…
Internet security service provider, Zscaler, recently published some interesting usage data for the last quarter, including some insight into mobile browser usage. Although iOS may be winning device adoption over BlackBerry in businesses, it looks like the majority of Zscaler’s enterprise subscribers that browse the web on smartphones (40.3%) are doing so through an Android…
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…
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…
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…
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…