With the increasing popularity of Apple’s computers and other hardware, the company’s media player and media library application iTunes has been gaining traction with consumers. So, to keep their BlackBerry customers on par with the music-playing handsets of today, RIM is working on bringing iTunes-based media transfers to BlackBerries around the world. The BlackBerry 9000…
Six Apart releases BlackBerry mobile client
Six Apart released a native mobile client for select BlackBerry phones, Pearl and Curve included. The mobile application will “enable” CrackBerry users to enhance addiction to their beloved handset, by allowing them to upload photos, manage comments, and draft, edit and post to their TypePad blogs. Yes, this means that you can take a photo…
Rogers Wireless to carry the BlackBerry Bold 9000 in Canada
Rogers Wireless will be the first carrier to offer the newly announced BlackBerry Bold 9000 in Canada. We all expected this to happen, and because RIM is a Canadian company, maybe even before AT&T got the exclusive launch rights for the U.S. Still, U.S. is a bigger market for the BlackBerry-maker and announcing a U.S.…
RIM announces BlackBerry Developer Conference
Guess this was expected following the unveiling of the BlackBerry Partners Fund. Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to launch an annual developer conference to “provide commercial and corporate developers from around the world with opportunities to advance their skills and knowledge in building powerful, world-class applications on the market-leading BlackBerry platform.” The first BlackBerry…
RIM’s iPhone fighting touchscreen BlackBerry 9500 ‘Thunder’?
Rumors, being what they are, should be taken with a grain of salt. That said, the newest rumor to leak out of Waterloo indicates that RIM is brewing up a serious all-touchscreen contender to the iPhone. The rumored handset, known as the RIM BlackBerry 9500 “Thunder” is said to release as a Verizon Wireless/Vodafone exclusive…
Microsoft to bring Windows Live Mobile to BlackBerrys
Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on BlackBerry smartphones. As a result, BlackBerry smartphone owners will be able to access Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail by simply entering their Windows Live E-Mail address and password once. To put it in other words, if you…
AT&T gets BlackBerry Bold exclusive launch rights
AT&T scored the exclusive launch rights for the latest BlackBerry Bold smartphone. That doesn’t mean other U.S. based carriers won’t get a chance to carry the long awaited device. On the contrary, that only means AT&T will be the first to offer the device, with other carriers to follow within few weeks. Hence, that employee…
RIM giving away free BlackBerry handsets on May 13
What’s better than a brand-new BlackBerry Curve? How about a FREE BlackBerry Curve? That’s right, RIM is going to give away 5 free BlackBerry Curve handsets – “2 Limited Edition Pinstack Curves and 3 Limited Edition BlackBerryHomePage Curves, complete with Certificate of Authenticities and custom cases!” Come May 13, the same day that the WES…
Quickoffice brings eOffice native Microsoft Office document support to BlackBerry with eOffice
The BlackBerry 9000 Bold is pretty much the biggest BlackBerry news that you’ll hear for some time to come, but that doesn’t make eOffice for BlackBerry any less important. As the enterprise handset of choice among corporate types, RIM’s BlackBerry has become synonymous with “push emailing, corporate workhorse.” And, with Quickoffice’s announcement of eOffice for…
RIM, RBC and Thomson Reuters announce a $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund
Google has a $10 million contest for Android developers, Apple the iFund and RIM has just announced a $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund along with RBC, Thomson Reuters, and several private Canadian investors. Agnostic to both stage and balance sheet, the BlackBerry Partners Fund will not restrict the development of mobile applications and services to…