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News & Rumors / by - Feb 9, 2012 9:35 AM
Press Release Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) is launching two new smartphones in the Caribbean the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 and BlackBerry® Curve™ 9380. Both…
Apps & Games / by - Feb 8, 2012 3:15 PM
Last week I let you know that RIM was rewarding Android developers who submit their apps to BlackBerry App World with a free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Apparently BlackBerry developers didn’t…
Deals & Sales / by - Feb 8, 2012 3:00 PM
T-Mobile let me know they’re having a big sale to celebrate Valentine’s Day. This Saturday, February 11, T-Mobile stores will be offering free 4G smartphones and tablets (after mail-in rebate)…
Events & Live Coverage / by - Feb 8, 2012 11:29 AM
If you weren’t able to attend BlackBerry DevCon Europe 2012 or watch the live webcast yesterday, RIM just posted a replay of the entire General Session Keynote. We’ve already seen…
News & Rumors / by - Feb 8, 2012 9:27 AM
Press Release Amsterdam, The Netherlands – BlackBerry DevCon Europe – February 7, 2012 – BlackBerry Partners Fund™ and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the winners…
Apps & Games / by - Feb 7, 2012 11:30 AM
Here are some numbers and facts that should definitely entice potential BlackBerry developers. According to The Verge, RIM’s VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, is putting out some impressive data…
News & Rumors / by - Feb 7, 2012 10:13 AM
Press Release France - SFR and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 in Pure White will be available February 7, 2012 to…
News & Rumors / by - Feb 7, 2012 10:08 AM
Press Release Netherlands - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced the launch of the new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 in the Netherlands. Powered by the BlackBerry® 7 operating…
News & Rumors / by - Feb 6, 2012 2:06 PM
Do you ever wonder how your BlackBerry smartphone’s durability is tested? RIM today posted a few videos showing what they do to make sure BlackBerry devices are strong enough to…
Apps & Games / by - Feb 2, 2012 11:21 AM
[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/asaunders/status/165097598624075777″] You read that right! According to Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations at RIM, Android developers who submit their apps to BlackBerry App World by February 13th will…
News & Rumors / by - Feb 1, 2012 9:31 AM
Press Release BlackBerry 7 and 7.1 OS Achieve FIPS 140-2 Certification Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that BlackBerry® smartphones running on the…
News & Rumors / by - Jan 31, 2012 12:04 PM
Press Release Hong Kong - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone in Pure White for customers in Hong…
Desktop & Server Software / by - Jan 31, 2012 12:01 PM
Press Release Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service…
News & Rumors / by - Jan 23, 2012 12:18 PM
Last night I let you know that RIM named Thorsten Heins its new President and CEO. While many of you might not be happy with this change, I think this…
News & Rumors / by - Jan 22, 2012 10:45 PM
Big news coming out of Waterloo this evening! Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down as Co-CEOs at RIM, naming Thorsten Heins the new President and CEO. Here’s some biographical…
Desktop & Server Software / by - Jan 19, 2012 11:49 AM
RIM today released Beta 3 of the Native SDK for Tablet OS on the BlackBerry PlayBook. This update brings a few goodies like additions and improvements to tooling, APIs and…
Apps & Games / by - Jan 10, 2012 2:49 PM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eb9tKEXRlY&hd=1[/youtube] I just showed you RIM’s preview video for BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 and it looks like they’ve put up another one, this time for updates made to BlackBerry Bridge…
Apps & Games / by - Jan 10, 2012 2:37 PM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3bFraVcqo&hd=1[/youtube] RIM is at CES 2012 and pulling out all the stops to show off upcoming software releases like BlackBerry 7.1 and BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. In one of their…
Apps & Games / by - Jan 9, 2012 1:32 PM
Earlier today I let you know that RIM officially announced the rollout of the BlackBerry 7.1 OS. In that announcement RIM also mentioned that a bunch of apps would receive…
News & Rumors / by - Jan 9, 2012 10:14 AM
Press Release New BBM, BlackBerry Traffic and BlackBerry Travel Updates Also Released LAS VEGAS, NEVADA-(Marketwire - Jan. 9, 2012) - (CES 2012) - A wide range of software improvements await…
News & Rumors / by - Jan 9, 2012 9:57 AM
Press Release LAS VEGAS, NEVADA-(Marketwire - Jan. 9, 2012) - (CES 2012) - This week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) will be previewing new…
News & Rumors / by - Jan 9, 2012 9:48 AM
RIM today announced the official rollout of the BlackBerry 7.1 OS. According to the Inside BlackBerry blog post, this OS “has been built to make discovering new things – and…
Deals & Sales / by - Jan 5, 2012 1:38 PM
It seems like RIM is looking to greatly increase its BlackBerry PlayBook user base with a sale on all models. According to the Shop BlackBerry website you can get the…
Apps & Games / by - Dec 20, 2011 9:23 AM
RIM today let me know they’ve updated the Facebook app for the BlackBerry PlayBook with a few new features. It’s been a while since the app was last updated, today’s…
News & Rumors / by - Dec 16, 2011 9:02 AM
RIM yesterday reported their Q3 Fiscal 2012 results. Here are the highlights from the press release: Revenue of $5.2 billion, up 24% from last quarter BlackBerry smartphone shipments of 14.1…
Apps & Games / by - Dec 12, 2011 2:31 PM
Following the release of BlackBerry App World beta version 3.1.0.42, RIM today also updated the BlackBerry Messenger beta. Now at version 6.1.0.37, this update brings a few fixes to the…
Apps & Games / by - Dec 12, 2011 11:01 AM
RIM recently released BlackBerry App World 3.1 in the BlackBerry Beta Zone with new gifting/begging features, content ratings and more. Today they updated the beta version to 3.1.0.42 with a…
News & Rumors / by - Dec 7, 2011 2:41 PM
Just a quick bit of good news coming out of Indonesia for those of you on Indosat. RIM today announced that Indosat will support operator billing as an option for…
News & Rumors / by - Dec 7, 2011 12:01 PM
I love it when RIM throws out numbers that contradict anti-BlackBerry comments like RIM and BlackBerry smartphones are dying. The truth is, “BlackBerry is in growth mode” and they’re racking…
News & Rumors / by - Dec 7, 2011 9:52 AM
With BlackBerry DevCon going on in Singapore and now a BlackBerry PlayBook root exploit being made available by Dingleberry, they definitely have their hands full. For those of you that…
Apps & Games / by - Dec 6, 2011 9:39 AM
RIM today officially released version 2.0 of the BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app for BlackBerry smartphones. Version 1.0.0.30 of this app has been in beta since June but it’s good to…
Apps & Games / by - Dec 5, 2011 2:24 PM
Last week I let you know that BlackBerry App World 3.1 was in the works with a few new features. App World beta version 3.1.0.38 is now live in the…
Apps & Games / by - Dec 1, 2011 10:30 AM
RIM recently posted some info on the BlackBerry Developer’s Blog offering a preview for an upcoming content rating system and filter. With the new content ratings BlackBerry users will be…
Events & Live Coverage / by - Nov 29, 2011 9:03 AM
RIM let me know they’ll be hosting a webcast today at 1PM ET. The webcast presenter is Alan Panezic, Vice President, Enterprise Product Management & Marketing, and he will be…
Desktop & Server Software / by - Nov 29, 2011 8:43 AM
RIM today announced BlackBerry Mobile Fusion (BMF), a new offering that will allow enterprises to include and have greater control over multiple mobile platforms including BlackBerry, Android and iOS smartphones…
Apps & Games / by - Nov 24, 2011 11:45 AM
RIM today released a new version of BlackBerry App World for BlackBerry smartphones. The last update to App World was to version 3.0.1.29 a month ago but version 3.0.2.7 is…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 24, 2011 11:03 AM
Last week I let you know that RIM was planning to release an update for the Tablet OS on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Today version 1.0.8.4985 of the Tablet OS went…
Deals & Sales / by - Nov 23, 2011 11:06 AM
The BlackBerry PlayBook sale rumors are true and now confirmed by RIM! For a limited time the PlayBook will be available for as low as $199 from participating retailers. Here…
Desktop & Server Software / by - Nov 22, 2011 3:06 PM
RIM today released a new beta version of the Native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Now at version 2.0 (beta 1), this beta is meant for developers and not…
Desktop & Server Software / by - Nov 21, 2011 10:27 AM
RIM recently released a new beta version of the BlackBerry Java SDK. The new beta is available for the BlackBerry Java Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry JDE on Windows,…
Apps & Games / by - Nov 17, 2011 3:31 PM
RIM just let me know they’ve released a new version of BlackBerry Messenger in the BlackBerry Beta Zone. Unlike recent updates to the app, beta version 6.1 of BBM actually…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 16, 2011 12:08 PM
RIM yesterday announced in the BlackBerry Beta Zone that a new Tablet OS update for the BlackBerry PlayBook will be available ahead of the 2.0 release in February. According to…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 15, 2011 9:44 AM
I just posted the photo gallery for the BlackBerry Curve 9380 and now here are the photos for the BlackBerry Bold 9790, also announced by RIM this morning. This Bold,…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 15, 2011 9:31 AM
As promised, here are the official press images for the just announced BlackBerry Curve 9380. This new BlackBerry 7 smartphone is an all-touch device with Curves in mind. For more…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 15, 2011 9:16 AM
RIM today announced two new BlackBerry 7 smartphones, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 and Bold 9790. We’ve known about these devices for a while now as rumors with launch details, photos…
Apps & Games / by - Nov 14, 2011 1:36 PM
RIM today let me know they’ve released a new version of BlackBerry Traffic in the BlackBerry Beta Zone. Now at version 3.0, the latest update includes a few much awaited…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 7, 2011 1:26 PM
After the recent meltdown of RIM’s BlackBerry Internet Service, I’m sure those of you that experienced an outage today were quick to point the finger them. If you did,…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 3, 2011 10:00 AM
It’s been a few months since we last heard anything about the rumored BlackBerry Curve 9360 aka Curve Touch. The team over at MobileSyrup got a tip with a leaked…
News & Rumors / by - Nov 2, 2011 12:15 PM
T-Mobile let me know they’ve officially announced the BlackBerry Torch 9810 with a general availability date of November 9th but business customers can get it today. This confirms the previously…
Apps & Games / by - Nov 2, 2011 9:42 AM
BBM Music has been in beta for some time now and recently went into maintenance mode in the BlackBerry Beta Zone. The reason for the maintenance is RIM was getting…