Archive for the 'News' Category
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
I am not sure who is responsible for this current pipe dream but it is just doomed to failure. They are essentially going to be selling MicroSD cards with an album on it. They managed to convince MI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group that this backwards approach is a [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Tom just let me know that SBSH has just released their first application for BlackBerry. Tom has been part of the beta test for SafeWallet and he came away impressed so this could be interesting. SafeWallet is essentially a secure storage application for your private information. Kind of like CryptMagic, SplashWallet, & Ascendo Datavault. You [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Astraware & Handmark just let me know that they have released Platypus. Its a arcade side scrolling shooter game with one major flaw. It has to be one of the most expensive games for BlackBerry clocking in at $19.99. Add that to the fact that there is no free trial and this game has the [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Last week we talked ranted about Verizon’s weekly internal Storm press release, Talking Up A Storm, and it looks like they are holding true to their hump day plan. More information was released today, mostly about the multimedia capability of the Storm. They talked about the 3.2 mega pixel camera, the ability to shoot [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Review: Naztech’s N300 3-in-1 Charger
Rating: 8/10
Link: www.Naztech.com
Cost: $59.99 @ Naztech.com
The Naztech website seems to think that this product is only available for the Motorola V3, but I assure you it will work with most anything that charges with a USB cable.
Ronen mentioned mobile chargers in a post a couple of months ago [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
UPDATE: Jason from usablenet let us know that the login bug has been fixed. Happy mobile gameflying!
I have been a GameFly subscriber for almost a year now so I was happy when they sent me an email announcing their new mobile site. They teamed up with UsableNet to mobilize their desktop website which looked terrible [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Real Networks has busted into BlackBerry gaming with the release of South Park Imaginationland for BlackBerry. I did not think South Park would ever make it on to the formerly conservative BlackBerry. The game mostly focuses on Butters based on his Imaginationland Trilogy so it might not be all about the usual characters. Sadly in [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
YouGetItBack is one of those applications that helps you protect your device and information if it gets into the wrong hands. They had a pretty impressive feature set until now but they have just beefed it up. I also happen to love the product logo :).
New features include:
PIN lock / unlock – The user [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
I just got an email from WorldMate letting me know that it is WorldMate’s first anniversary and to celebrate they are offering 25% off of their Gold plan. You just use the promotional code specialwml.
They have also upgraded the application with a new dashboard and a Yahoo Go! like carousel menu as you can [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Chris @ Engadget Mobile managed to score the slides from a Verizon National Account Manager training session. It is pushing the “WOW” factors of the upcoming BlackBerry Storm. Nothing new on the release date but there are some great details especially the quadband GSM. Anybody hear “unlocked Storm?”
CDMA EV-DO revision A
Quadband EDGE AND 2100MHz HSPA
VGA+ [...]
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