Archive for the 'News' Category
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Yahoo is attempting to free content from your desktop onto your mobile device with their recently announced OnePlace service. Even Yahoo Executive Vice President Marco Boerries does not really understand how this is going to work but he sure does seem optimistic!
The beast that is OnePlace seem to be one part digg, one part rss, [...]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Josep just sent me a link to a new piece of free software for BlackBerry called PLT7. The idea of PLT7 is to keep track of when a BlackBerry enters or leaves a specified zone based on your specification. You select an area in Google Maps online and the software will automatically notify a cellphone [...]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Not quite sure what this means to us end users but the BlackBerry beta of Version 6 is now out of beta. I noticed this a few days ago and was reminded when I read a post on BlackBerryForums about it. MobiPocket has decided to follow in RIM’s footsteps by not releasing a changelog beyond [...]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
As I promised in the previous post here are some more screenshots of the commercial Android theme released by Corey of VistoThemes.com. For more info reference the previous post:
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
The thing that shocked me about the latest press release from Zenprise was not the product features. The crazy part is that they have cataloged over 6,000 things that can possibly go wrong with your BlackBerry! Seriously that has to be a ridiculously long list. I started counting the ones I know to myself and [...]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
The CEO of Enigma Games, Xavier, just let me know about a new game they have just released for BlackBerry. The game is called EFL: Preseason and seems to be some variant of football. Until a few minutes ago EFL stood for English (as a) Foreign Language to me. After I did a bit of [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
After a week or so of wailing on Rim and BlackBerry and all of there shortfalls, I thought I would write a feel good story about the advantages of BlackBerry ownership.
Last weekend when I was supposed to be home writing my butt off, I actually went 4 wheeling to a local trail to test out [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
S4BB has just released a new Sudoku game for BlackBerry. The game looks pretty good and has some nice features but I am not sure how well it will do for one simple reason. RIM has offered a free feature full version of Magmic’s Sudoku for quite awhile. This means that Sudoku Expert is competing [...]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
The CEO of Viigo, Mark Ruddock, just let me know that their planned server upgrade has been completed and is now fully up and running. If you have been using Viigo for the last few months you may have noticed that the servers have been getting slower and slower when it comes to updating feeds. [...]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Josep just sent me a link to a press release by a company called SyncWizard. They have released a (seemingly free) product that hopes to integrate all of your contact information and personal information from a wide array of devices including BlackBerrys. It syncs bookmarks, wallpapers, documents, pictures, music, and most importantly contacts and calendars. [...]
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