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As expected, RIM has acquired Gist, a company that offers an e-mail and meeting service which ranks and prioritizes incoming messages, as well as offers web-based contextual info about who’s contacting you. Gist figures out who’s most important to you based on how often you interact, and farms up data from blogs and social networks…
RIM introduced, BlackBerry Travel, a new native travel application for its BlackBerry handsets. The BlackBerry Travel application will compete with other travel applications like WorldMate which has a similar feature set, but is not integrated into BlackBerry OS 6. The native Travel application from RIM has a full set of features for mobile jet-setters including:…
Today at Mobile World Congress 2011, RIM announced two new 4G-ish varieties of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. In the second half of the year, there will be one PlayBook that runs on LTE and Wi-Fi, and another that runs on HSPA+ and Wi-Fi, in addition to the WiMAX version headed to Sprint. The rest of…
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet was announced with HDMI-out capabilities, but it hadn’t been shown in action. Today, a video demo shows the PlayBook hooked up to a projector, and streaming HD video and the native OS to the big screen with little problem whatsoever. At 1:51, it looks like the video jumps a little bit,…
We had heard a rumour the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would be able to run Android apps by using the same version of the Dalvik virtual machine as Google’s operating system. Now three more supposedly trusted sources are confirming that it’s real, and should be made available to PlayBook owners in the second half of the…
A quick BlackBerry OS update for those lovely Brits out there on Three UK. Turns out that OS 6.0.0.448 has gone OFFICIAL on us for not only the BlackBerry Torch, but the Curve 9300, Bold 9700 and Bold 9780 as well. Yes, that’s a lot of official OS update goodness. As per usual, no changelog…
Nevermind Brickbreaker, the BlackBerry PlayBook is going to launch with some real games. EA Mobile has announced that racing game Need for Speed Undercover and classic puzzle title Tetris will both be included on the PlayBook at launch. This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen Need for Speed on a BlackBerry, either; it was…
In a recent video demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook by RIM VP David Heit gave us the tour of various ways in which the tablet will be able to connect. We’ll have the Bridge mode we all know and love, which requires a PlayBook be paired with a BlackBerry handset to access any PIM data…
A few months ago, RIM pulled a growingly popular app, Kik Messenger, from BlackBerry App World, revoked their access to the software development kit, and sued them for patent infringement. Kik Messenger basically aimed to deliver BBM-style functions, namely notifications for received and read, across multiple smartphone platforms. Today, a document outlining their defense against…
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is starting to wriggle its way into retail channels for a late March launch. One such store, Office Depot, has it listed internally for $499 for the 16 GB model, which confirms earlier rumours of that price point. Other denominations of memory will cost $399 and $599, according to separate rumours.…