RIM Offers Free Premium Apps & Games for Outages – Offers Support for Enterprise Customers
RIM has made a nice gesture this morning for the outage many of us experienced last week. RIM is offering up a selection of 12 apps and games in App World (valued at $100+) that will be made available in the coming weeks. They will remain available free until December 31st, 2011 which means you…
RIM Wants Developers to Prepare for Unannounced BlackBerry 9380 & 9790
RIM is once again leaking their own device announcements. This time they have gone around and confirmed the BlackBerry Curve 9380 and BlackBerry Bold 9790 through a blog post for developers. They are telling BlackBerry devs to prepare for the new devices and resolutions which is nice and early to get devs ready. The Curve…
Foursquare for BlackBerry v3.3 Adds Notification Tray & More
Foursquare announced a new feature addition for BlackBerry users with their v3.3 launch. The main new feature is the addition of a notification tray which keeps track of quite a few notifications for you. It notifies you of things like friends joining Foursquare or if you share a place on your To-Do list with a…
Plantronics Improves on Perfection with Voyager Pro HD Bluetooth Headset
When I got my first Plantronics Voyager Pro I few years back I fell in love. It was a super comfy Bluetooth headset that simply worked and the battery lasted forever. Plantronics then gave it a marginal update with the Voyager Pro+ with A2DP and a voice controls. Now they have tuned the mix just…
RIM Posts Global BlackBerry Service Update Page – Confirms Issues in the Americas
RIM’s @BlackBerryHelp account posted a link to a “BlackBerry Service Update” page on their RIM.com website with updates on the current BlackBerry Outage. This is on top of the UK BlackBerry Service Update page. The latest update just went up an hour ago confirming intermittent issues for “Subscribers in the Americas.” They are obviously working…
BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team Responds to Elcomsoft Brute Force Password Attack
I received a copy of this email that RIM has been sending out to customers about the brute force passwords attack Elcomsoft has announced for BlackBerry media cards. We told you earlier this month that practically any offline password system devoid of hardware protection is vulnerable to a brute force password guessing attack and how…
IBM Study Finds Filing Your Email into Folders is Unproductive…
You have to love these kinds of studies. The latest coming out of IBM Research is a 345 user study into how productive it is to file your emails into folders. According to their filings findings it took users an average of 17 seconds to find an email via searching compared to 58 seconds to…
Free Cozi MobileLife Family Organizer – Custom T-Mobile Variant
Back when T-Mobile announced the BlackBerry Bold 9900 it said it was shipping with T-Mobile’s MobileLife Family Organizer powered by Cozi. I was not familiar with the service then but T-Mobile let us know that the T-Mobile version of Cozi is now available for BlackBerrys and other platforms at www.t-Mobile.com/calendar. The thing is it seems…