Free Barcode Scanner lets you scan barcodes and more!
S4BB Limited let us know today that they have released a new FREE Barcode Scanner to transform our BlackBerry Smartphones into a bar-code Scanner. Besides barcodes, they have also added the support for QR codes, datamatrix, UPC codes and many more formats which makes it stand out in the crowd of such apps. If you…
RIM Reporting Q3 Fiscal 2012 Results Today at 5PM EST
RIM is going to have a pretty interesting earnings call today at 5PM EST. They recently issued a revised forecast for this quarter and the year saying that Q4 will not exceed shipments of Q3. The RIM stock is currently the lowest it has been in 7 years which is pretty crazy and is down…
Sprint Selling BlackBerry PlayBooks for $199 From Dec 26th to Jan 7th
The $199 deals for 16GB BlackBerry PlayBooks look like they will be continuing. A leak spotted by SprintFeed (via CB) shows a flyer for Sprint’s holiday deals. They are going to be selling the BlackBerry PlayBook for $199 from December 26th until January 7th 2012. My guess is some other retailers will be jumping in…
Why Doesn’t App World have Gift Cards & Coupons Yet?
Now that RIM is rolling out App World Begging and Gifting over BBM in BlackBerry App World v3.1 it leaves a big question in my mind. RIM managed to integrate a complex process where you beg a friend for an app on App World through the new BBM SDK and then follow the request to…
TeleNav Working on Free HTML5 Based Navigation Solution for “Early 2012”
In the same vein of what I said earlier today that “The Web, Not Apps, Is the Future” we have TeleNav weighing in. They announced today that they are working on a new HTML5 browser based, voice-guided, turn-by-turn GPS navigation service. That means they will no longer need to create an app for every platform…
CarrierIQ Publishes Report on What it “Does and Does Not Do”
CarrierIQ has finally realized that they need to come out and vocally defend their logging of information on handsets. The drama has been going on for awhile now and it seems like most BlackBerrys on most carriers are spared and the app is relatively easy to spot do to BlackBerry security. On the other hand…
Verizon gets the spotlight in AppWorld!
Verizon customers are reporting that they now have a Verizon section in BlackBerry App World. It looks to be a list of apps that Verizon has created for their subscribers, paid and free. The apps are not proprietary to Verizon, just recommended. It makes me wonder if independent carrier stores are going to go way…
Connect In Private Launches Email & Browsing Apps That Bypass RIM’s NOC
Connect in Private let us know that they have launched a new app that gives you what they call “Highly Secure BlackBerry Email and Browsing” application that is independent from RIM’s network. This is an interesting development because BES hosting or internal servers offers way more security than Connect In Private but the concept is…
