BlackBerry App Development: Gold Rush or Drops in a Bucket?
I was lured into PlayBook app development last winter by the offer of a free PlayBook. My motivations weren’t at all to make any money. To the contrary, I was firm in my belief that the app landscape consisted of big winners like Angry Birds who made back their investment 10,000 fold, and hundreds of…
MobiHand Under “Financial Strain” & Looking to be Acquired While Devs Not Being Paid
Many of you may be familiar with MobiHand or some of their affiliates including our own BerryReview store. They have been facing some stiff competition from App World but it seems like they are really feeling the pain. We noticed that something has been off for the last few months especially with them moving…
Devs: BlackBerry Analytics Portal Getting Redesigned This Weekend
Developers that are using RIM’s free BlackBerry Analytics service powered by Webtrends are getting a nice facelift this weekend. RIM sent out an email that the portal is getting redesigned starting Saturday November 12th from 7:30AM Pacific Time and lasting for “several hours.” The BlackBerry Analytics service will continue collecting data at that time but…
Interview With RIM’s Alec Saunders on the BlackBerry Developer Ecosystem
Back in August I got a chance to sit down with Mike Kirkup who was then the Senior Director of Global Developer Relations at RIM. Since then Mike has left and Alec Saunders has made a big splash as the new Vice President of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at RIM even posting his email…
LocalBar App Installs BAR Files Directly from your BlackBerry PlayBook
We are getting one step closer to being able to easily install PlayBook applications OTA just like current BlackBerry smartphone apps. Until now RIM has forced us to load apps only through App World or by using a convoluted sideloading method which requires a PC and quite a few steps. Now Yohan aka TinyHack…
Devs Share Their Stories from BBM Hackathon Events on Video
RIM started an interesting new video series on YouTube highlighting some developers that have attended their recent BBM Hackathons. The videos are done nicely and are interesting to watch if you want to gain some insight into why devs are attending the events. Check out the videos below or more in the BlackBerry YouTube…
Find Upcoming BlackBerry Developer Events Worldwide on RIM’s Dev Calendar
My buddy Josep pointed out to me that RIM has posted up a nice microsite that shows all of their upcoming developer events. These are events hosted by RIM or ones where RIM will have a presence which is nice. All in all a good resource to find where you can meet up with RIM…
RIM’s Alec Saunders Says BBX “Designed for Dual Core” & Theme Studio Coming in 2012
RIM’s new VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, sat down with Al Sacco @CIO for a quick interview on the future of BlackBerry. Most of it seems to cover the same topics we heard at DevCon but there were a few tidbits that are worth pointing out. Alec continues to stress that BlackBerry OS 7…