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When RIM announced their first tablet a few weeks ago, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Flash support was one of the big selling points. To that end, today at the Adobe MAX conference Adobe has launched a set of AIR development tools that work with the tablet’s new operating system, Neutrino by QNX. BlackBerry wasn’t the only…
Google Maps for BlackBerry has been updated to version 4.5.1, including the ability to filter local search results based on review ratings, or how close they are to you. There’s also place pages for the businesses that support it, complete with hours, and comments left by patrons, but that’s been available since 4.4.0. Google Maps…
Those wonderful people at Powermat have just updated their lineup of wireless charging receivers with a new design that seamlessly replaces the battery door on the Motorola Droid X, HTC EVO 4G, BlackBerry Curve 8500-series and 9300, and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. The iPhone 4 is a bit trickier, but manages to offer no-wires recharging…
RIM has steadily been calming down the governments of the world about lawful interception over the last couple of weeks, but they’ve been tight-lipped about the specific solutions they have been implementing to meet security demands. There was some talk about setting up local servers, or forwarding decrypted e-mails from corporate mail servers to ISPs,…
Viper’s car control system for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android is getting a little more accessible, and tacking on some new features today. Firstly, they’re knocking $100 off the price of the SmartStart car add-on to $199, meaning you’re looking at $399 rather than $499 for the whole shebang. You still have to pay $30/year for…
Strategy Analytics, an analyst firm that keeps a running tally of how everyone is doing in the mobile industry in terms of unit shipments, took out their abacus, punched some numbers, and found that 77 million smartphones shipped during the third quarter of this year. That’s up 78% compared to last year. The biggest “winner”…
Australia’s Optus has joined Canada, the U.S., U.K., and others by launching the BlackBerry Torch 9800 today. Optus is offering the Torch for free with a $AUS 79 monthly plan on a two-year contract. For now, it’s only available to small and medium business customers, but seeing as their only personal BlackBerry for sale is…
RIM has been displaying the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in an untouchable plastic prison since launch, which hints that, as you might expect, the Neutrino OS by QNX is still very much a work in progress.This picture was snagged at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, where it looks like the PlayBook was somehow derailed from its…
A couple of quick BlackBerry OS updates for you Berry addicts out there today. More specifically, these updates are for the Bold 9650 and Storm 2 9550. Both of these updates are official… rare to see two official OS releases on the same day! First off is 5.0.0.983 for the 9650. It comes to us…
Phillip Huang and Maynard Um, analysts at UBS believe that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion could be acquired by enterprise telecom giant Cisco “at the right valuation.” Specialties in enterprise markets, video calling, and social networking are just a few of the places the two could potentially mesh well together. Such a hypothetical situation wouldn’t arrive…