RIM Offering Sweet 65%+ Discount on DevCon Europe!
One of our tipsters let us know that RIM has a pretty sweet promotion for DevCon Europe until December 23rd, 2011. The deal gives you 50% OFF the already discounted Early Bird rate. In other words the regular rate is €400 and the early bird rate is €275 and this “incredible limited time discount” is…
Free 2010 US Census Browser App for the BlackBerry PlayBook
@andytrice let me know that he has released his slick web app for the 2010 US Census demographics data for the BlackBerry PlayBook. According to Andy the app is packaged using WebWorks for the PlayBook and was created to “showcase enterprise-class data visualization in apps using HTML-based technologies.” It definitely does that with some cool…
Devs: RIM Opensources Useful Java & WebWorks UI Frameworks
Devin let me know that in the last few weeks RIM has opensourced a separate WebWorks and Java UI framework for developers. The WebWorks framework is called BBUI.js and has been around in some forms for awhile but is definitely useful to help devs get phone apps out quickly. RIM has also put out…
Java Files Leak for Bold 9900 OS7.1.0.150
NerdBerry just let us know that the Java files for the BlackBerry Bold OS7.1.0.150 have just leaked. The rumour is, is that this OS might have an internal device analyzer, and you can read about that on NerdBerry. Now if you are not sure what to do with the java files, then just let them…
Bolt Browser has Closed Down Due to Economical Circumstances
It looks like Bolt Browser, one of the ever so popular 3rd-party browsers for the BlackBerry has been discontinued. Bolt brought tabbed browsing to BlackBerry’s, also the speed of its browser was one of its biggest advantages.
webOS Now Opensource, Developers to Focus on Other Platforms??
We all know that Research In Motion is trying to expand it’s customer base by bringing the Android Player to the PlayBook. Which for me, is something exciting. It can only be a win/win for developers and end users if applications, games, and utilities are available on all platforms. Yesterday, Meg Whitman, CEO of HP,…
Asia Pacific 2011 BlackBerry Developer Challenge Winners Selected
To wrap up DevCon Asia in Singapore the BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced the winners of the Asia Pacific 2011 BlackBerry Developer Challenge Recognition Awards. You can read more about the challenge at blackberrypartnersfund.com/challenge or simply check out the list of winners announced. There are some good ones in there as examples of what RIM…
BlackBerry 10 SDK Announcement From DevCon Asia on Video
HWZ BlackBerry Support has just posted a GREAT video on BB10 taken from DevCon Asia. This video shows the vision for BB10 and there is a lot of talk on the open source aspect of it. The info was already posted here, but it is nice to see them talking about it more from a…