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Gaming was a massive part of BlackBerry DevCon 2011 last week, thanks not only to a range of high-grade developer tools becoming available to game makers, but also lots of releases. We got a sneak peak at big-name title, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, during the DevCon general keynote, and took some time…
Some internal T-Mobile documents are indicating that the BlackBerry Torch 9810 may be headed their way soon. As is, AT&T is the only U.S. carrier offering the phone, but after the AWS version made its first appearance in Canada by way of a Wind Mobile announcement, it’s not a huge surprise to see T-Mobile working…
RIM has just announced a beta program for Office 365 on BlackBerry, which will offer business organizations Exchange synchronization and security options, without all of the hosting hassle. A browser-based console allows managers and end-users to keep tabs on their BlackBerry deployment, including remote wiping if needed, and the usual sync between e-mail, calendar, contacts,…
Our first glimpse of Android apps running on the PlayBook was a little choppy, but now that RIM has opened up the App Player to developers, we’ve got a chance to see performance closer to what was demoed at BlackBerry World. RIM’s Chris Smith walked us through some of the apps that they’ve got working…
Poynt’s location-based search app for BlackBerry has been updated recently to include a whole new category: Offers. With it, you can find short-term local sales offered by Restaurant.com, Peekaboo, Mobile Spinach, and others. Some of the coupons are limited time, others ongoing, and cover a breadth of different businesses – food, hotels, services, and lots…
Earlier this week at DevCon 2011, RIM announced the name and developer framework for their next-gen BlackBerry operating system. BBX was meant to bring the QNX-based operating system on the BlackBerry PlayBook to smartphones, and though we didn’t get a clear picture of what the OS would look like (nevermind what device it would launch…
Facebook’s new Messenger application has been chilling out on Android and iOS for awhile, and now BlackBerry gets join the party. Android and iOS versions are also getting a bit of an update, so you can now see when someone else is typing, and you’ve got quicker access to your favourite friends. They also include…
Back at BlackBerry World, RIM had promised that a lot of the fancy user interface elements made by their Swedish branch would become available to BlackBerry developers. This week at DevCon 2011, RIM took some time to show off the library, called Cascades. During the keynote, they showed off just some of those UI bits,…
During a briefing on their involvement with Android on the PlayBook tablet, a RIM exec at DevCon 2011 made a somewhat bold statement: BlackBerry App World would be the first professional market for Android applications. This stemmed from a line of questioning around security – how does RIM propose to stop just about anybody from…
RIM has updated the official Twitter for BlackBerry app in the Beta Zone with a long-awaited feature: multiple account support. Now you can send tweets and monitor timelines from up to five accounts. On top of that, you can also edit your Twitter profile from the device now, include name, location, and bio fields. Twitter…