I know that there is already Viigo and Newsgator Go for BlackBerry but this is a new twist on getting RSS to your Berry. IM Feeds lets you setup a feed service that Instant Messages you feed items as they come in. This is a great way to keep up with time sensitive news (such [...]

I just got an email from Loopt that they have released a BlackBerry client for their social network. Personally I have no clue what Loopt does that Facebook does not but I am not much of a social networking buff.
So far the application seems to only be available for Sprint BlackBerry devices but supposedly Verizon [...]

Do you remember the days when it was impossible to get an instant messenger for BlackBerry since there were no clients? I remember looking for one for my 7230 back in the day. The best I got that year was Webmessenger.

Well, the tables have turned since and now we have an overabundance of IM applications [...]

I know there are a ton of BlackBerry specific instant messenger applications. The problem is that I am the type who has to try every new application to see if it is better than the current one I use.
Josep just let me know about an announcement by Palringo that their instant messenger client now supports [...]

Yet another version of VR+ was announced today, 2.4.1.
The one thing I hate about SHAPE is the lack of change logs. Well, I guess I hate that in most software houses that develop for the Blackberry. How much of an impact would a darn change log have on their quarter’s bottom line? What does it [...]

Another piece of news I really want to post today so maybe you can give it a try during the weekend. Gizmo5, a notorious VoIP-slash-chat application, sent me an e-mail today with the following announcement:
Gizmo5 now connects to every major IM network in the world:
Gizmo5, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, MySpace, Jabber (including Google Talk), QQ, iChat, [...]

Well we have heard this promise before when it comes to the Windows Messenger. They promised us a native RIM IM client and it turns out that it was locked to only a few carriers and required you to pay a monthly fee. Hopefully this latest press release from RIM will change that story. RIM [...]

Sometimes, it seems that some people don’t realize that GTalk is a Jabber client and that allows them to have several protocols like MSN, ICQ, AIM etc. Since GTalk is free, you can have all these chat protocols in your Blackberry for free as well. The process may be a little bit strange to many [...]

One of our regulars, Nikolaus, just let me know that there is a new version of the official Google Talk Client for BlackBerry. The version has been updated from 2.0.43 to the latest 2.0.46.
Once again there is no changelog and I have not seen any difference but since I have been having a heap of [...]

Review: VR+ 2.3
Rating: 10/10
Developer: Shape Services
Cost: $29.95
Making software for the competitive mobile device market is not easy, but those folks at SHAPE Services are not complaining. Instead, they’re keeping up with the times and defending the relevance of their products. SHAPE Services is the company that makes VR+, a voice recorder for the Blackberry, [...]