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blueSLR has expanded from iPhone to support Android and BlackBerry handsets recently. By slapping their Bluetooth accessory onto the side of your DSLR camera, you can control shooting settings for your camera from your phone, as well as geotag photos and upload them to Flickr, Picasa, and other web albums. Although cameras on smartphones are…
This morning, RIM posted a video of their co-CEO and founder, Mike Lazaridis, talking about the BlackBerry service interruptions that have been ongoing since Monday around the world. Lazaridis reported that service levels are approaching normal, but they still can’t say for sure how long it will be before everything is restored. He sounded sincere…
It looks like EA is going to have some competition with the new titles it just launched. Gameloft has just released six games for RIM’s tablet, running the gamut from sci-fi shooter to soccer. UNO HD is the classic card game, complete with multiplayer and various game modes. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD is a racing…
Normally BlackBerry service outages aren’t worth much attention because they’re usually resolved within the day, but there’s a particularly big one that has gone for three days now in some areas. The initial outage knocked out instant messaging (including BBM), e-mail, and web browsing in some capacity. At the very least, it sounds like RIM…
Jaguar Financial, a noisy little financial firm that has a few shares in RIM, has piped up again with complaints about the company’s leadership, only this time it’s not just them. They have apparently won support from those who own 8% of RIM’s total issued shares, who all feel that there needs to be an…
EA is following up on their BlackBerry PlayBook release of Dead Space over the summer with a handful of other recognizable games. Casual puzzler Bejeweled 2, urban planning strategy game SimCity Deluxe, and classic board game The Game of Life are now all available in BlackBerry App World. EA was in a good spot…
After a lengthy stay on Android and iOS, Foodspotting has finally come to BlackBerry. Even Windows Phone got a release before BlackBerry. Foodspotting is just what you’d imagine it is: you take pictures of your meals, and share ’em with the community at large, be it within Foodspotting’s own little corner, or out to larger…
Yesterday, RIM announced that they would be incorporating an NFC feature called Tag into their next BlackBerry 7 update. It will let owners of NFC-enabled BlackBerry devices to swap contacts, documents, web site URLs, pictures, and videos just by tapping their phones together. Yeah, it sounds an awful lot like Bump, but good luck getting…
Research In Motion will spend roughly $100 million to purchase NewBay to boost its cloud services, according to a report in The Irish Times. The $100 deal is a relatively large sum for RIM, so what will it be getting? On its website, NewBay says it offers, “a white label software platform, called LifeCache, that…
RIM’s stock jumped yesterday on the rumour that Vodafone is considering acquiring the maker of BlackBerry. RIM’s market share is continuing to dwindle, and if the launch of QNX-powered smartphones early next year doesn’t pan out, they may very well be in the market for acquisition. I find the rumour a little hard to swallow. Sure,…