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Santa Clara, CA – BlackBerry Developer Conference – Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced two major distribution initiatives for BlackBerry® smartphone applications at the BlackBerry Developer Conference. A new online application storefront and a new on-device application center will help application developers and carriers reach millions of BlackBerry® smartphone users worldwide and will provide consumers with greater choice, enhanced application discovery and an easy method for managing installation, upgrades, and purchases.

RIM plans to launch the application storefront in March 2009 and BlackBerry application developers can begin submitting their applications and content for inclusion in the storefront in December 2008. The storefront will allow developers to set their own prices for applications and developers will retain 80 percent of the revenue generated from their applications. RIM is working with PayPal, a leading global online payment service, to provide consumers with a convenient and trusted way to pay for applications within the new application storefront, right from their BlackBerry smartphone. Organizations that have deployed BlackBerry® Enterprise Server or BlackBerry® Professional Software will retain control of what applications can be downloaded to BlackBerry smartphones within their corporate deployments.

RIM is also working with its carrier partners to provide carrier-customized, on-device application centers to help foster after-market application downloads. The BlackBerry application center will allow each carrier to offer a convenient catalog right on the device where a customer can discover and download applications. RIM has already worked with carriers successfully to provide this type of on-device distribution system for individual software applications, such as the popular Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones application. The new BlackBerry application center will allow a carrier to build on that success with a broader catalog and provide customers with a convenient and easy method to purchase and download applications.

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Santa Clara, CA – BlackBerry Developer Conference – Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced plans to introduce powerful new tools and technologies for web application developers to build highly-responsive, interactive, standalone web applications on BlackBerry® smartphones. The new tools and technologies will include a new plug-in for Eclipse developers and new features for the BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio® that support web development capabilities; as well as support for Gears, enabling web applications to run as standalone applications on BlackBerry smartphones.

“As the BlackBerry Browser evolves to provide customers with a richer, more desktop-like experience, we are introducing powerful new web development tools and technologies to help developers create a more robust and optimal web experience for BlackBerry smartphone users,” said Alan Brenner, Senior Vice President, BlackBerry Platform at Research In Motion. “Supporting web technologies and services is part of our ongoing commitment to providing best-in-class tools and services for mobile application development on the BlackBerry platform.”

New Developer Tools for Web Development, planned for availability in 2009, include a new plug-in for Eclipse developers and new features for the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that support web development capabilities, enabling developers to create rich, dynamic BlackBerry applications that leverage the push capabilities, security and efficiency of the BlackBerry® platform. Developers will be able to build applications using HTML, JavaScript and XML that get packaged and executed as native Java applications on BlackBerry smartphones.

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Santa Clara, CA – BlackBerry Developer Conference – Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced new versions of various BlackBerry developer tools that further support innovative, streamlined mobile application development for BlackBerry® smartphones. The developer tool updates include a new public beta of the BlackBerry® JDE® Plug-in for Eclipse, as well as new releases of the BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio®, BlackBerry® MDS Studio, and Plazmic Content Developer’s Kit™ for the BlackBerry platform.

RIM continues to support innovation on the BlackBerry platform by providing developers with robust tool sets that include new capabilities and the latest advances in mobile application development,” said Alan Brenner, Senior Vice President, BlackBerry Platforms at Research In Motion. “Corporate, commercial and entrepreneurial developers have the flexibility to choose the right tool to support their skill set and feature requirements, whether they are mobilizing their organization’s business systems or creating new and innovative mobile applications for consumers.

The developer tool updates, available today, include the following:

* BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse is designed for developers who want to create and test robust wireless applications for the BlackBerry platform from within the familiar Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

New features with this latest public beta include deeper integration with Eclipse and standard Java projects, pre-processing capabilities supporting a multi-build environment, support for the BlackBerry JDE component pack version 4.3.0 to version 4.7.0, and the ability to install updates of the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse through the standard Eclipse software update mechanism. The plug-in is available for download at www.blackberry.com/developers.

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Santa Clara, CA – BlackBerry Developer Conference – Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of the new BlackBerry® Web Signals technology for the BlackBerry developer community.

BlackBerry Web Signals leverages RIM’s unique push technology to allow online content providers to automatically notify BlackBerry smartphone users when relevant content has been published and to allow streamlined, one-click access to the online information. With online content services powered by BlackBerry Web Signals, BlackBerry smartphone users can spend less time searching the web and more time connecting directly to the content that matters to them personally. Content providers will offer a range of services powered by BlackBerry Web Signals that enable customers to stay connected with news, weather, sports, entertainment, financial information and more.

BlackBerry Web Signals technology allows content providers to engage their customers on a whole new level and to make mobile web access a much more interactive and personalized experience,” said Alan Brenner, Senior Vice President at Research In Motion. “Push technology makes a night-and-day difference to the mobile experience and BlackBerry Web Signals will help online content providers add value for their customers while driving significant additional traffic to their web sites.

BlackBerry Web Signals technology leverages BlackBerry push APIs to enable content providers to push relevant and timely alerts to BlackBerry® smartphone users based on a customer’s opt-in preferences. Several members of the BlackBerry developer community are already set to launch services powered by BlackBerry Web Signals technology:

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Ronen over at BerryReview just got an update email from Rogers. They have officially released OS 4.6.0.162 for the BlackBerry Bold 9000. Even though you can’t see that it is 4.6.0.162 from the download page, as soon as you click it to download it you will see that it is.

Get OS 4.6.0.162 for your Bold.

Source – BerryReview

BGR was sent this print out. According to BGR, it seems like Best Buy will be getting the BlackBerry Storm sometime around November 16, 2008. This isn’t a public release date, but an in-stock date. The actual public release date might be before Thanksgiving, but it’s not a sure thing yet.

Source – BGR

I will be doing some site maintenace over the next few days. I can’t say for sure when I will be finished since I’m waiting for a response from someone, but there shouldn’t be any problems with the site.

If you experience any problems or hit any error pages (404, etc) please let me know by sending me a message with the contact form, Or you can just leave a comment on this post.

T-Mobile has finally released OS 4.5.0.81 for the BlackBerry Curve 8320. Here is what is included in this update:

• Video recording and HTML e-mail formatting
• Attachment download and editing
• myFaves 1.5 (NO idea what this is, anyone, anyone, Bueller?)
• Enhancements and stability improvements to Wireless Network interaction, UMA, Messaging, Media Player, Web Browser, Phone application, Bluetooth Technology, and more.
• GSM/Edge Toggle

All we need now is OS 4.5 for the other BlackBerrys! I’m a little disappointed that it isn’t the latest OS that’s floating around, which I think is 4.5.0.93. But hey, beggars can’t be choosers right?

Head on over to tmobile.com/bbupgrade to download the upgrade for your BlackBerry.

Source – TmoNews

REMEMBER: Always make backups before making major changes/upgrades/downgrades to your BlackBerry.

TORONTO, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ – The BlackBerry Partners Fund LP, a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and services for the BlackBerry(R) platform and other mobile platforms, announced today that it has launched its Jump Start Financing Initiative.

The Jump Start initiative provides entrepreneurs with capital infusions of up to $250,000. The funding initiative is designed to bring new and innovative ideas into the development process faster allowing entrepreneurs to focus on building great smartphone applications instead of raising seed capital.

“At the BlackBerry Partners Fund we believe it is important to encourage the development of an industry that is predicted to become the fastest growing application market the world has ever seen,” said Rick Segal, Partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund, who is spearheading this program. “We are eager to review pioneering ideas and assist entrepreneurs with the advancement of their concept into a viable product faster and more cost effectively than ever before.”

“Building a business to compete in the fast moving mobile marketplace requires focus,” said Kevin Talbot, Co-Managing Partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund. “We want entrepreneurs to spend time building innovative applications instead of searching for start-up capital in a time where the economic environment may prove unnecessarily distracting.”

By offering up to $250,000 in the form of a convertible debenture, the BlackBerry Partners Fund is providing entrepreneurs with a standard financing package that is not onerous on the entrepreneurs while giving the BlackBerry Partners Fund early exposure to the opportunity. Entrepreneurs interested in the Jump Start Funding Initiative should visit www.blackberrypartnersfund.com.

About BlackBerry Partners Fund

The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture capital fund focused on applications and services including mobile commerce (payments, advertising, retailing and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, communications, social networking, location-based applications and services (navigation and mapping), media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry(R) and other mobile platforms. The Fund will consider all stages of development and is co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners. For further information visit: www.blackberrypartnersfund.com.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

PARIS, October 20 /PRNewswire/ –

- With Webwag Mobile 2.0, Internet and Mobile Become One

Webwag, an Internet and mobile widgets publisher, announces today the launch of Webwag Mobile 2.0, the new version of its mobile widgets engine, which will be commercialized in both versions directly to consumers and as a white label.

Webwag Mobile 2.0 aims at the convergence of the Web and the mobile Internet. It has been designed to be practical and easy to use: Users’ data are automatically synchronised between their mobile phone and the Web.

The same content is then offered on both media.

Easier, more user-friendly, more intuitive, enabling hundreds of widgets and RSS-feeds, synchronized with Webwag’s web page, Webwag Mobile 2.0 features a tutorial meant to guide the mobile Internet users in their selection of the services they are interested in. The most relevant widgets are then automatically added in function of the pre-selected user’s interests’ lists.

Two features are especially innovative and practical:

- My friends, my community: Users select their nine favourite contacts to phone them, send them a text message or a Widget, in just a few clicks without the need to leave Webwag Mobile.

- Location-based content: By selecting their city, users receive relevant content such as weather forecasts and other local information. Other location-based services will soon be available.

20 to 40 uses per month!

Webwag introduces its widget engine as a white label for mobile operators, mobile phone manufacturers, content publishers, service providers and media groups. Webwag Mobile 2.0 is the best way to reach end-users and increase their loyalty, directly from their mobile phone, via a simple, entertaining and flexible interface. The widget environment, the billing and the user identification can all be customized so as to meet the customers’ demands.

Webwag is now available on hundreds of mobile Java phones, on the Web, on the iPhone, and shortly on Windows Mobile and BlackBerry.

“Webwag Mobile users launch our widget engine as often as 20 to 40 time a month! Nothing can stop the widget phenomenon now, as widgets can make Internet access, mobile or not, much easier. With its new mobile version, Webwag is overthrowing received ideas. Most users can now have access to rich and customized mobile Internet. Widgets for the stock exchange, route descriptions, the weather forecast or Sudoku, they all offer an easy and fast experience and make the Webwag Mobile 2.0 a unique application”, said Florent Pitoun, COO.

    Webwag's widgets include:

    - The major national and international medias with RSS-feeds

    - E-mail with complete display

    - Comics of the day

    - A daily Sudoku

    - Traffic information (in France, in UK in a near future)

    - The weather forecast for the location of your choice

    - A search widget for Wikipedia

    - All major search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo!

    - Access to blogs and favourite web sites

    - My Stock Exchange to keep track of the portfolio in real-time

    - A Web-synchronized calendar.

To start using today the mobile Internet of tomorrow with Webwag Mobile 2.0, please visit http://www.webwag.com/mobile from your PC/Mac, or http://m.webwag.com from your mobile phone.

About Webwag:

Webwag, a publisher of mobile and Internet widget convergent solutions, helps users create a personalized home page with data feeds and web 2.0 services that are always accessible from any computer. Webwag goes further than any other widget service by allowing users to search among feeds directly on their personalized page. In February 2007, Webwag launched the world first Widget On Demand(TM) technology, WOD(TM). In June 2007, Webwag launched Webwag Mobile an open solution for mobile widgets, entirely synchronized with an Internet start page. contact@webwag.com

Distributed by PR Newswire on behalf of Webwag