BlackBerry App World 3.0 Comes Out of Beta – Download it Now!
We knew it was coming but now it is official. Shahzoor from BBin.in let us know that RIM has unleashed BlackBerry App World 3.0.0.73 out of the Beta Zone. That means all of you can now download the updated version of App World without having to enter in Key Codes and jump through hoops. You…
RIM Boils Down their BlackBerry Smartphone Core Values for Us
A friend of mine pointed out something interesting about the slide deck RIM put up during their BlackBerry 7 device launch in the UK and Canada. RIM kindly posted the slide deck on SlideShare and it really boils down RIM’s smartphone core values, strategy, and even ethos into two slides. The first highlights how…
Free Official FML (FmyLife) App Provides Loads of Laughs
There have been quite a few FML BlackBerry apps released over the years for the awesome www.fmylife.com website. Tom let me know about the latest by Antoine Réveillon which allows you to easily read the stories from FmyLife. The thing is if you go to the FML website they have this app listed as the…
Openwave Decides to Sue RIM & Apple Over Five Ridiculous Patents
Patent trolling continues to gain steam with a new lawsuit from Openwave against RIM & Apple. At first you would think Openwave was a technology company but it seems like they are banking on their patents since everything else is not working for them. AllThingsD managed to boil down the five patents Openwave is…
BattleBallz Chaos PlayBook Game Free Until Tomorrow!
We told you earlier today about the BattleBallz Chaos game for the BlackBerry PlayBook and now we have some good news. Pocketeer has let us know in the forums that they have made BattleBallz Chaos for the BlackBerry PlayBook free until tomorrow. Its a pretty sweet game built on the new Marmalade Visual C++ SDK…
US DOJ Sues AT&T to Block T-Mobile Acquisition for Antitrust Issues
The hammer has fallen. It looks like the US Department of Justice was not as easily swayed by AT&T. AT&T has been trying to argue how their acquisition of T-Mobile would help customers even though everybody knows that is more or less a joke. Bloomberg is reporting that the Department of Justice has filed a…
BattleBallz Chaos Marmalade SDK Game for the BlackBerry PlayBook
I have been writing about the Marmalade SDK quite a bit today but I wanted to end off with one of the games developed for the PlayBook using the engine. Pocketeers has released BattleBallz Chaos for the PlayBook for $1.99 in App World. It is sort of an interesting take of two players playing…
BlackBerry Developer Gets Hit with Lodsys In App Payment Patent Lawsuit
The patent wars have once again made their way into the BlackBerry ecosystem. Both Apple and Google along with many of their developers are being sued by Lodsys who owns a patent for “in app payment methods.” Originally when Lodsys (who makes nothing useful aka Patent Troll) starting suing they were aiming for payments that…