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After being yoinked from the BlackBerry App World, Kik Messenger now has their development effectively frozen, as Research In Motion has revoked their access to the software development kit, and stopped push services for the app, effectively killing its usefulness for existing users. The developer doesn’t mention any reasons, and RIM’s statement on the issue…
RIM has just updated their bundled mapping app, BlackBerry Maps, to include data for Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, New Zealand, the Philippines and Taiwan. Additionally, map data now includes a smattering of points of interest on the map, so you can see handy little icons where hospitals, universities, police stations, subway stations, shopping centres, parking,…
RIM and CollegeHumour teamed up for a funny little game show where they offered a hundred bucks cash to folks who would spin this wheel and send whatever message it landed on to a BlackBerry contact of the hosts’ chosing. Flipping a coin determined whether it would be a BlackBerry Messenger or text message, and…
BlackBerry Curve 9300 and 9700 users, it’s time to sit up and take note of a couple of operating system leaks that hit us over the weekend. First off, we have OS 6.0.0.358, which leaked for the 9300. So, if you’re a Curve 3G owner and want to get the latest and greatest (albeit unofficial)…
Yes, we’ve heard that TELUS will have the BlackBerry Style 9670 on offer… the question is, and still remains: How soon? The first rumors had the device hitting TELUS shelves in early November. With those days come and gone, it’s safe to say we should see it in-store and online very soon… and that looks…
Developers have had some time to play with RIM’s software development kit for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and one, Universal Mind, is showing off what they’ve done so far with their fantasy football app. There’s a video below to see it in action in the simulator, and presuming that the device itself performs just as…
Dish Network is making a big push for TV everywhere, as the television provider is teaming with Dish to bring live TV to Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and BlackBerry devices. We knew the company planned this and most of the apps are now live. The Apple iPad version will be getting live streaming television…
As expected, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now available in white on Rogers. That’ll pair up nicely with the white Bold 9780 that Rogers will be launching in good time. Bell will have a red 9800 if you’re not digging the white. There are no white Torches in Canada available outside of Rogers by the…
Wind Mobile is gearing up for the holidays with their second Android device, the Alcatel Tribe OT-981. It runs 2.1, has a 2 megapixel camera, 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G. It’s a portrait-slider with a full QWERTY keyboard not unlike the Motorola Spice that Mobilicity launched yesterday. On top of that, Wind Mobile…
The BlackBerry Traffic application that has been chilling out in a closed beta format for the last couple of months is now done testing and available to the public at large for free. For those unfamiliar, it’s is a turn-by-turn directions app made by RIM that instead of showing a map, would display a simple…