Archive for the 'News' Category
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Larry let me know that last week CallWave announced a slick collaboration tool that includes BlackBerry support. It allows for content sharing & conferencing with any computer and/or smartphone. Most things seem to work on the BlackBerry with the exclusion of video sharing for now. It also has a built in web messenger that [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Gareth sent me a link to a user guide that RIM has just released for the Bold. This has to be one of the coolest flash animations that RIM has ever released. Its like a book where you flip pages and all. Nothing groundbreaking here or anything but this just looks cool. You have to [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Well paint me green and call me the tooth fairy. Verizon is known for being stubborn so I thought they would never give up on the contract… Turns out I was wrong. As of yesterday Verizon now offers service without a contract.
Now you need to BYOP (bring your own phone) or buy one at full [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
With the popularity of Facebook Chat this was the obvious next step. Turns out that Facebook chat is now compatible with the Jabber protocol meaning that it can be connected to using a Jabber client. This means that BeejiveIM and IM+ should now be able to connect but no promises. If they don’t already work [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, IM Services, News, Utilities
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Compared to the Storm the 8220 has not been getting as much rumor love. On the other hand both T-Mobile and Rogers now have the 8220 up on their websites with a registration form. You can fill out the form and be the last first to know about the release. To be honest I [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Taylor and Josep sent me a link to a thread on BBForums talking about the latest version of the Garmin GPS application for the Bold. The thread author, CornerCarver, has nothing but praise for the latest version which is impressive considering how hobbled the original version was for BlackBerry. This might not take off yet [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in GPS, News, User Submitted
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Sam from KeyToss just let me know that they have updated their mobile portal with a bevy of new features. You can check them out at http://m.keytoss.com/ from your BlackBerry browser.
From the press release:
You can now add virtually any link to your personal web pages, and share them with others. KeyToss enables four types of [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Well guys, it’s about time that someone came up with this! Akakios, of BlackLightThemes.com and Michael Small, of BlackBerryThemes.co.uk, have teamed up to put together a one stop shop for theme developers. At BBIconStore.com you will be able to purchase icon sets, meters, bars and even premium themes. As of right now, they only [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Mobile Websites, News, Themes
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Marshall left a comment on our previous post about OS 4.5.0.81 for the 8310 pointing out that it can now be found for the 8120 on the Vodaphone Australia & Fuji website.
Check it out at this link: https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=B86E8D03FE992D1B0E19656875EE557C
Nice catch Marshall!
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I was browsing www.getjar.com and I found yet another application that may help you recover your precious blackberry from McAfee. this program may come in handy in case you loose it or some one with sticky fingers gets a hold of your BB. We have mentioned a few of those berry locator programs before such [...]
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