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Although I can’t consider myself a HUGE fan of The Joy of Tech, every once and awhile one of their comics will catch my eye, and make me laugh. Case in point today comes to us in the form of a new BlackBerry PlayBook comic. Check it out above. If you’re waiting patiently to get…
Heralding the launch of NFC and augmented reality-enabled BlackBerry handsets, an updated version of RIM’s desktop software companion has broken cover. BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.1 has a few new features by the looks of it, like forgetting a previously synced device if you don’t want to have extraneous backup data cluttering your computer, and launching…
Back in January, it was looking like Kodak’s outstanding camera patent lawsuit against BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and Apple was on its way out the door empty-handed, but the fight’s not over yet. The International Trade Commission has pledged to review Kodak’s case, which has already earned them $550 million from Samsung and $414 million…
RIM announced its fourth quarter financials for the fiscal year ending February 26, 2011 and while its quarterly results are strong, its guidance is shaky. The Canadian handset manufacturer shipped 14.9 million BlackBerry handsets in the last three months. This figure that is at the top of its estimate for the quarter, but less than…
Today RIM announced that they’re expanding the developer ecosystem not only with a native SDK that high-end game developers have been toying with privately on the PlayBook tablet, but also two app layers to run legacy BlackBerry apps, as well as Android 2.3 apps, as speculated at great length. Android apps will be found in…
Earlier this week, four U.S. senators called on Apple, Google and RIM to remove DUI-busting applications from their respective App stores. The apps in question include titles such as FuzzAlert and Buzzed. These apps and other like them help drivers pinpoint DUI checkpoints presumably so they can avoid them. Several of the apps accept user-submitted…
Received a note from a good developer friend of mine this morning, letting me know about a new BlackBerry app (in Beta) from Fixmo. Called ‘Fixmo Extend’, this new app allows you to connect your laptop to the internet via your BlackBerry’s internet connection. From what I’ve read so far, it looks pretty neat. Made…
After much speculation regarding when exactly we’ll see the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM has announced specific launch details for their first tablet. Prices for the Wi-Fi-only model start at $499 for the 16 GB version, $599 for 32 GB, and $699 for 64 GB – more or less in line with what we were expecting. The…
We’re expecting the Wi-Fi-only BlackBerry PlayBook to launch any day now, but a 4G version isn’t far behind. A few months ago Sprint had promised a WiMAX PlayBook, and now we’ve got a summer timeframe for a launch. Around the same time, I’m expecting we’ll see a software update to the Wi-Fi version which will…
A juicy leak from Three UK has revealed a bunch of release dates, as well as our first look at the Samsung Galaxy S2 Mini. The original Samsung Galaxy S Mini is still just getting its feet wet in the UK, but the S2 Mini definitely bumps things up a notch. The screen has been…