Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Personally I am never one to put much stock in rumors. They just get my hopes up for a product that we know nothing about. On the other hand I have found on multiple sources online that RIM’s co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie has confirmed that a 3G HSDPA phone is right around the corner for GSM [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News, RIM
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Simon at BBCool has the innate ability to see through smoke and mirrors. Or in this case a bad transparent ribbon covering a screenshot. This is on the new teaser site Viigo has created in preparation for WES. They are calling this latest release “Project Tango” promising “To Change The Way You Use Your BlackBerry.” Those [...]
6 Comments » | Posted in Internet, News, RSS
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
A few weeks ago I cleaned up all of the free memory on my BlackBerry by uninstalling all the games and removing voice dialing from my BlackBerry. I was so proud that I finally had 10+ megabytes of free space on my device! The ironic part is that today my BlackBerry decided to go on [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Editorial
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
A colleague, Mark, just sent me a link to a great video on YouTube. He sent it to me after reading and agreeing with our previous post about why RIM needs a new advertising agency. According to him this is a link to some new stuff that started as a skunkworks project in RIM from some creative [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in Editorial, News, RIM, Video
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
I just got a tip from Gary about a cool video site that works on BlackBerry devices as long as the video is not too large. You can download videos but not stream them at this time. (I am not sure about the 8130) The site is pretty standard when it comes to video selection [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in Multimedia, News, Video
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Now, being a day of love is not just for relationships as you have all come to accept them… There is a different style of love around these days that did not exist 25 years ago.
Imagine taking your loved one out to dinner or cuddling up in front of the fire place when it is [...]
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Magmic has just released 2 new games for BlackBerry and they look hot! The first is called Star Wars Battle Above the Coruscant. The second is just plainly called Caesar. Both games clock in at $9.99 from Bplay.com and both sadly lack trials. Stay tuned for some reviews if you are hesitant. Luc and [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in Games, Magmic, News
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Review: NBA 2-on-2 SLAM
Rating: 8.5/10
Link: www.magmic.com
OTA: www.magmic.com
Cost: $8.99
Hey, I am Brazilian, I should be reviewing a soccer game. I don’t know anything about basketball. Well, maybe basketball is your game. If it is, you can play it in your Blackberry too.
NBA 2-on-2 SLAM, as the name indicates, is a game of basketball [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Games, Magmic, Reviews
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Seriously after so many years you would think RIM would have learned how to remove Single Points of Failure from mission critical services! While this is not going to make people run out and buy a Windows Mobile device it will reduce peoples confidence in relying on their BlackBerry.
From Marketwatch.com:
…the interruption was brought on by [...]
Leave Comment » | Posted in BES, BIS, BlackBerry Service, News, RIM
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
EZ Reregister, also known as BARRT (BlackBerry Application Reregistration Request Tool), is a nifty application that is currently in Beta. During the Beta the application is free. The developer, Mark, created the application to easily allow himself to request registration codes for his latest BlackBerry. This has always been one of the issues with the [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in News, Utilities