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Over the course of BlackBerry World last week, Xobni, a popular e-mail inbox management app (coming soon to Android and iPhone), updated to version 2.0.28 with a giant heaping fistful of new features. For starters, free users can now enjoy limited daily universal searches (a feature previously held back for premium customers). There are also…
One app to make its debut at BlackBerry World last week was Unsubscribe. They’ve been getting cozy with desktop e-mail through Outlook and Gmail since late last year, and are now moving into mobile starting with BlackBerry. While any decent e-mail-based marketing not caught by your built-in spam filter will offer an “unsubscribe me” link,…
Back at Mobile World Congress, RIM’s new Sweden arm, The Astonishing Tribe, showed us a few apps that demonstrated the graphical capabilities of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. One of them, though not exactly pushing the 3D boundaries of the device, did show what some simple imagination could accomplish. Scrapbook let you take locally stored images…
As a part of the announcement of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 this week, RIM showcased a preloaded augmented reality app that we’ve seen on other platforms called Wikitude. Since the 9900 is the first BlackBerry to include a magnetic compass and the right display overlay software, it’s the first to support AR apps. To give…
Research In Motion has just updated its Twitter and Facebook apps for the BlackBerry smartphones and this includes improved user interfaces and a few new features. If you recall, the Facebook, Twitter apps were built with the help of RIM itself, so these have deeper ties into the operating system than some third-party programs. This…
Here at the BlackBerry World conference, RIM’s Sweden team (better known as The Astonishing Tribe) has been very busy, not only pumping out the Scrapbook app we saw at Mobile World Congress for public consumption, but also doing some cool stuff with the upcoming native software development kit for the BlackBerry PlayBook. TAT has a…
RIM has spent a lot of time cultivating and justifying Bridge, the Bluetooth pairing process that shares data between a BlackBerry smartphone and the new PlayBook tablet. Though they haven’t opened up that potentially promising mechanism to third-party app developers yet, that hasn’t stopped location-based search app, Poynt, from offering a pairing connection through standard…
The clever guys at RIM-owned The Astonishing Tribe have ported the open-source first-gen Quake game to the BlackBerry PlayBook, and have the game running in multiplayer across three tablets. One device acted as the server, and all three could handle laser beams, explosions, and gibby body parts all while maintaining 60 frames per second. RIM…
Jaguar and RIM are working closely at BlackBerry World to offer a product similar to what we’ve seen with Ford Sync and BMW ConnectedDrive. The big difference here is that Jaguar is putting the BlackBerry screen exactly as you see it on your phone onto the in-car dash system, complete with touchscreen responsiveness. Combined with…
We’ve seen a lot of official announcements here at the BlackBerry World conference, but there’s still a lot going on behind closed doors. One rumour has it that the next version of the official BlackBerry software storefront, App World, will include an updated UI (including carousel and search bar), app sharing through BBM, subscription support, and more…