RIM Extends DevCon America $699 Rate Until September 23rd Using This Code
RIM’s early bird $699 rate for BlackBerry DevCon Americas expired on August 26th which brought the price back up to $849. They have now extended the discount to App World vendors offering the $699 rate back until September 23rd which is nice of them. To get this rate you simply register now using the code…
Devs: BlackBerry Advertising SDK Beta for WebWorks Now Available!
WebWorks developers just got a nice boost from RIM. They have released the BlackBerry Advertising Service SDK for BlackBerry WebWorks in its first public beta today. This beta lets developers easily add advertising to their apps to monetize them. The advertising service requires BlackBerry OS 6.0+ devices to work though it is really easy…
RIM Updating BlackBerry Analytics (Webtrends) Portal Tomorrow
RIM sent out an email to devs that they are planning on revamping their BlackBerry Analytics portal tomorrow. BlackBerry Analytics is a free app analytics platform for developers powered by Webtrends. The upgrade is set to start at 5PM PT tomorrow (Sept 15th) for a few hours where the portal will be unavailable. After that…
Devs: WebWorks Twitterview Q&A Session from RIM Tomorrow
If you are a BlackBerry WebWorks developer you are going to want to be on Twitter tomorrow (Friday September 9th) at 1PM EDT. RIM is running a Twitterview Q&A session on their @BlackBerryDev Twitter account. Josep pointed out their announcement on the forums. Here are the details:
RIM Sponsoring 50 Android Developer Meetups to Promote PlayBook Android Player
A friend pointed out that RIM is really starting to make themselves known to Android developers and other developer communities on Meetup. Until now they have been using it to court BlackBerry developers with meetups all over the place and a few web developers but now they are clearly sponsoring Android developer meetups in anticipation…
Rumor: Neil Sainsbury to Possibly Replace Mike Kirkup as Director of Dev Relations @RIM
It was sad news when we heard that Mike Kirkup would be leaving RIM and leaving his post of Sr. Director of Developer Relations at RIM. Now Kevin @CrackBerry is hearing that Neil Sainsbury (@eZainny) might be stepping in to take Mikes place as a possible candidate for the Director of Developer Relations at RIM….
BattleBallz Dev Explains How to Deploy a Marmalade SDK Game to the PlayBook
We just told you about the Marmalade SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook but we have some other good info for game developers. The developer of BattleBallz Chaos, DrMop, has posted a great guide on how to setup and deploy a game developed using the cross platform Marmalade SDK onto the BlackBerry PlayBook and available in…
Devs: Polar Mobile Open Sources PlayBook WebWorks ChildBrowser Extension
I love seeing BlackBerry developers giving back to the developer community. I think this is all part of RIM’s new move towards opensource especially with WebWorks and it seems like the trend is catching on. Polar Mobile’s Michael Russo has released a BlackBerry PlayBook WebWorks extension for ChildBrowser windows. This lets developers embed external web…