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Those of you into music, and more specifically music videos, will have probably heard of Vevo. They offer over 25,000 free legal Flash-powered music videos, namely on YouTube, thanks to partnerships with Universal and Sony. Some welcome news out of BlackBerry World last week was that they’re going to be launching a PlayBook app to…
Back at Mobile World Congress, RIM’s new Sweden arm, The Astonishing Tribe, showed us a few apps that demonstrated the graphical capabilities of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. One of them, though not exactly pushing the 3D boundaries of the device, did show what some simple imagination could accomplish. Scrapbook let you take locally stored images…
Here at the BlackBerry World conference, RIM’s Sweden team (better known as The Astonishing Tribe) has been very busy, not only pumping out the Scrapbook app we saw at Mobile World Congress for public consumption, but also doing some cool stuff with the upcoming native software development kit for the BlackBerry PlayBook. TAT has a…
Google Earth has been a joy to use on the iPad but the search giant has finally optimized the app for its own Android Honeycomb tablets. As you can see from the video below, it’s quite a sight to behold. The Google Earth Honeycomb app really feels like a desktop experience, particularly with the power…
Earlier this week we reported that Apple had reached a special agreement with Time Inc. that enabled subscribers to the print editions of Sports Illustrated, Time, and Fortune to access the iPad versions of those respective magazines for free. Today we’re happy to report that Apple has also agreed to enter into an agreement with…
The clever guys at RIM-owned The Astonishing Tribe have ported the open-source first-gen Quake game to the BlackBerry PlayBook, and have the game running in multiplayer across three tablets. One device acted as the server, and all three could handle laser beams, explosions, and gibby body parts all while maintaining 60 frames per second. RIM…
Adobe is hoping to capitalize on the tablet craze, as its Creative Suite 5.5 version now includes tools to target the Apple iPad, Android and BlackBerry tablets. The Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 is a set of tools that are commonly used by content creators to create things like magazines, newspapers, websites and much, much more.…
During this morning’s general keynote at the BlackBerry World conference, RIM showed off the Android app wrapper which was announced a few months ago for the PlayBook tablet. As you can see from the video below, a variety of apps all run extremely smoothly. Things started simply enough with a piano app and drum machine,…
The BlackBerry PlayBook launched with the rather irksome “feature” that required a BlackBerry smartphone to be paired over Bluetooth to get core apps like e-mail, contacts, memos, and tasks. RIM has been promising that stand-alone versions would be available, and today at their big conference, they showed e-mail and contacts running fine without a Bluetooth…
Earlier today, there was a leaked file for BBM on the BlackBerry PlayBook, but it’s a bit of a moot point now, as RIM has announced the the signature instant messaging app will be included in a software update going out tomorrow, and like many core apps, will be dependent on Bridge. Included in the…