Archive for the 'News' Category
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I don’t have a lot of information on this one so I will just post what I know. The European Airline commission has given the go-ahead for Airlines to install mobile phone transmitters/receivers aerials within their aircraft. This will give the traveller the full use of their mobile phones within the aircraft at 35,000 ft. [...]
8 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, News
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Al Sacco wrote a great reference on CIO.com about 5 features on your BlackBerry that not everybody knows about. He even provides you with the order of keypresses that you have to perform to get to each feature. Some of these are features I use every day.
The 5 features covered are:
Switching between applications
How to view [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in BlackBerry FAQ, News
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I know many readers who are using WorldMate Live to keep track of their itineraries from their BlackBerry. Well now there is an alternative. It does not seem to be as feature full as WorldMate but it has quite a few features that WorldMate does not have.
TripIt brings info from Google, Eventful, Flickr, Wikipedia, NOAA, and [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I know that I don’t switch wallpapers all that often but I know quite a few users who have purchased the wallpaper megaplex application from S4BB. The new catalog has over SIX AND A HALF MILLION wallpapers. I think that should cover just about every niche requirement. With an average of 15Kb per wallpaper (as far as I know) that can be over [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Images, News
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
One of our readers, Zach, sent in a tip that Telus has officially released the 8330 Curve. We usually do not cover when each carrier releases the same device but this is the first CDMA curve to be released. It is kind of ironic that the GSM Curve came out almost a year ago while [...]
4 Comments » | Posted in News
Monday, April 7th, 2008
This is just a quick one everybody. TheStreet.com has posted some live footage of Guitar Hero Mobile in action that they took during CTIA at RIM’s booth. They have Magmic’s Marketing Manager Andy Sparks walking them through the game on a BlackBerry Pearl II from what I can tell. It gives you a pretty good [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Sprint has been pining for quite awhile how the iDen networks are not dead and how they have been investing millions of dollars into them. Joshua Carp of BoyGenius picked up this little piece of news from GearLog.com and BBCool and BlackBerrySync seem to confirm as much.
According to all, Dan Hesse the CEO of Sprint mentioned [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in News, Sprint / Nextel, Wifi
Monday, April 7th, 2008
I have been trying to stay on the sidelines of this whole RIM security issue with India. Personally I originally thought it was a big hoax to get RIM to open a NOC in India to create more Indian tech jobs. RIM’s proposed solution to the problem is kind of interesting. It seems like Google [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Josep of MiblackBerry.com just released a free new application that helps you back up your SD card when you sync your BlackBerry. The software is just starting to take off so bear with him as he improves it.
So far the software will allow you to sync your BlackBerry SD card to your computer. The difference [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Stefano sent me a link to a great review on PinStack by CherriChiodo. She did a very nice review of the website www.MizPee.com. The idea behind the website is that it tells you where you can find the nearest public toilet with quite a bit of good information.
It gives you a rating based on the [...]
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