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The US Postal Service has announced a ban on international shipments of devices that contain lithium-ion batteries, such as phones, tablets, cameras, and most other electronic equipment. USPS claims that lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or spontaneously combust if not fully charged or stored/packed incorrectly. Two separate fatal cargo plane crashes since 2006 have been…
One of the most interesting things Research In Motion showed off about BlackBerry 10 was the next-generation keyboard which promises to take virtual keyboards to the next level. Well, an enterprising developer has made a similar product for the iPhone but it will only work on jailbroken devices. The product is dubbed Octopus Keyboard and…
Texting while walking has been banned in the northern New Jersey town of Ft. Lee since March, but officers are now strictly enforcing the measure after three fatal pedestrian-involved accidents this year. Police Chief Thomas Ripoli states that texting while walking is “a big distraction,” adding that “pedestrians aren’t watching where they are going and…
RIM has officially taken the wraps off of the BlackBerry Curve 9220 and 9320 devices, rumored to be coming soon to the US and UK markets. The Curve 9320 features RIM’s socially-driven BlackBerry OS 7.1, the Curve’s customary 2.44″ 320 x 240 display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 1,450mAh battery, FM Radio, microSD slot, and QWERTY…
RIM has just been granted a patent filed in 2009 that is sure to make “V for Vendetta” fans squeal with delight. RIM’s patent is for an angled keyboard that features trapezoidal keys as opposed to the customary squarish shape featured on most of RIM’s smartphones. The new keyboard layout would give users a higher…
Appcelerator announced that it is working with RIM to accelerate the creation of BlackBerry 10 applications by leveraging its mobile ecosystem. Under the deal, Appcelerator will allow its 300,000+ Titanium developers to easily make cloud-connected apps for yet another platform (in addition to iOS and Android). Appcelerator developers create native, hybrid, and HTML5 mobile web…
Gameloft will join the BlackBerry 10 ride with 11 games optimized for the new platform using the native SDK. The upcoming games will take advantage of key BlackBerry 10 features including the Scoreloop social gaming tools and multiplayer functions, and will range from freemium to $6.99 per app. Shark Dash, N.O.V.A. 3: Near Orbit Vanguard…
Wikitude announced that it will support the newly unveiled BlackBerry 10, which may or may not help RIM survive the ever competitive mobile landscape. In other words — and as Wikitude likes to emphasize — their Augmented Reality platform will be first of its kind on this new OS. Wikitude for BlackBerry 10 will give…
When RIM showed off the camera enhancements built into BlackBerry 10, many in the tech community were impressed. After all, the technology takes successive photos, and allows you to pick parts of the image from each photo and merge it into one finished product, which can come in quite handy if one of the people…
If you spend it, they will come. That’s the message App Promo received loud and clear in their First Annual Development Survey. A whopping 52% of developers have absolutely no money set aside for marketing their applications, and the same percentage spends 5% of their time or less promoting their applications. This is despite 91% of…