RIM Co-sponsoring Pwn2Own Contest This September with $200,000 in Prizes
Things are gearing up for Pwn2Own again this year with the mobile space heating up. Pwn2Own is happening in Amsterdam at EUSecWest this year on the 19th and 20th of September. TippingPoint is once again the main sponsor for Pwn2Own along with RIM, AT&T, and HP DVLabs. This year Pwn2Own is dedicated to the mobile…
RIM Explains New Fonts in BlackBerry 10 – Hints At More Language Support
Devs working on the latest BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha OS and latest SDK’s may have noticed some font changes. Some of the default Adobe fonts are no longer available and RIM has added a whole list of new fonts to replace the depreciated ones. They have also set the new default font for Cascades to…
BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK Has SD Card Support in API? Gets Small Update
After updating all of their BlackBerry 10 SDK’s last week RIM has released a quick refresh to the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK beta. With the help of some devs feedback they identified a sandboxing logic issue that was not working as documented and the blackberry.io.sandbox property could not be set. They have fixed this issue…
Draft UI Guidelines for BlackBerry 10 Show Off User Interface
If I am not mistaken some of these draft UI guidelines were around before but Jetp (via BBNews.pl) pointed out to me that they have been updated. These UI guidelines are what RIM provides developers to help make sure BlackBerry 10 apps have a consistent look and feel. What is interesting is that RIM shows…
bbUI.js WebWorks Framework Version 0.9.3 Released
RIM’s web team just released an update to their slick bbUI.js user interface framework. This new update brings loads of improvements for BlackBerry 10 including feedback from the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour. The goal of this release according to RIM’s Tim Neil is “to further close the gap between what is being offering…
Trouble Updating your BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha? Try this… (Mac Update Now Possible)
Some developers seem to have had issues with updating their BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha to the latest OS version this week. RIM has been working diligently on this issue and and it looks like they may have hit on what exactly is causing the issue. This thread in the BlackBerry support forum has been very…
BlackBerry 10 Cascades UI Framework Also Gains Refinement in Beta 2
When RIM announced that is had updated the BlackBerry 10 Cascades Tooling Betas I was curious to dig through the documentation for any changes to the UI Framework. Well Anders @RIM has beat me to the punch and detailed what he thinks are the most interesting changes and improvements in the Cascades UI Framework…
BlackBerry 10 Cascades Builder & Exporter Also Get Beta 2 Update
RIM made mention of Cascades also getting in on the tooling update today but now Markus Landin, Project Manager of Cascades @RIM, detailed exactly what changed. From what I read most of the Beta 2 updates focus on improving the usability of the Cascades Builder (the Eclipse Extension) and the Cascades Exporter (The Photoshop Plugin)….