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Remember earlier this week when Jim Balsillie cut short a BBC interview after a question about India and the Middle East caused him to lose his cool? A report from The National, a newspaper based in the UAE, may provide a clue into this surprising and embarrassing response. According to The National, the UAE will…
We finally have a retail-ready BlackBerry PlayBook unit in our hands, so we decided to give it a quick unboxing video to show you all what it will look like once you’re able to go out and buy one of your own. The packaging is actually quite nice. As you’ll notice from the start, it’s…
Hey, folks! We’re sure you’ve seen BlackBerry PlayBook reviews hitting the web the past few days, and our unit just arrived this morning. So, while we’re working away at our review to give you guys the details, we’re also live-streaming so that you can ask us questions for the next half hour or hour. Ask…
When it comes to the BlackBerry PlayBook, it doesn’t seem like RIM has the confidence it needs to really make it a huge success. In a recent interview with the New York Times, co-chief Mike Laziridis seemed to complain about why RIM isn’t getting the respect and praise it deserves. “Why is it that people…
Gartner has just released their forecast for the global mobile market reaching out to 2015, and as you might expect, things are looking good for Android. Much like ABI’s report, Gartner says Android is poised to take about half of the mobile smartphone market share by the end of 2012. A big part of the…
Twitter’s online safety account tweeted an alert yesterday that warns users of UberSocial and Twidroyd users of a potential privacy problem. According to the tweet, direct messages that are longer than 140 characters and are sent via the “d username” method are visible publicly. This glitch reportedly effects UberSocial for Blackberry and iPhone as well…
To follow up on the brief glimpse of BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.1, the application has been leaked for everyone to try out. If that wasn’t enough, OS 6.1 itself has leaked for two upcoming BlackBerry handsets, and someone has extracted updated versions of App World, Podcasts, Radio, News, Facebook, and Visual Voicemail. We’re expecting to…
Internally, Research In Motion has been running a conference for their BlackBerry developers, talking a lot about how to speed up the rollout of their operating system upgrades, but also hinting at the future. BlackBerry OS 7 is a new project named “Highlander” which will attempt to join the QNX Neutrino-based operating system on the…
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…
Starbucks addicts have been flocking to the Starbucks Card Mobile application by the millions. In fact, the company says that three million users have already used the mobile app, available on the iPhone and on BlackBerry, to make payments inside 6,800 Starbucks locations. Mashable reports: “Starbucks now offers the nation’s largest mobile payment network,” vice…