Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Wireless18 has been around for quite awhile offering a golf scorecard application for BlackBerry. In a previous post about mScorecard I had mentioned that there was a free application, Wireless18, that does a pretty good job of scoring your golf games.
Wireless18 does not have the GPS features of mScorecard but it has some other interesting [...]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
After all the promises we told you RIM made at Lotusphere we have one more followup from RIM. RIM previewed a BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections yesterday. The client runs natively on BlackBerry smartphones to provide users with access to Lotus Connections social software for business. According to RIM the client will be free when it [...]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Josep just sent me a link to a cool new tool for SQL DBAs. Idera has just release a cool new tool for mobile DBA’s offering them some peace of mind. I know quite a few DBAs that have to constantly carry around a laptop to monitor their SQL databases. This new commercial application from [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
The MiniMoni Traffic Monitor application that we have been mentioning over and over has finally released version 1.0. The biggest announcement is that the software will remain free but the developer is asking kindly for donations. Another big fix is that the code is now signed so the application can automatically start when you boot [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
There has been quite a bit of interest in the MiniMoni Traffic Tracking application for BlackBerry recently. The application is free and just came out with a few Beta fixes that many users who were having problems will appreciate. According to the developer, AxelE, the new version should fix some of the issues with OS [...]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Many readers have asked me about the difference between the 3 web browsers that are available on BlackBerry devices.
There are the:
WAP browser – Usually renamed by your carrier which is meant to browse WAP pages (AT&T calls it MEdia Net)
Internet Browser – Meant for regular web browsing
BlackBerry Browser – This browser is only for users [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Empower is just about to win over many BlackBerry users with their new version of Empower HTML Mail Viewer Pro. This is a new Pro version of the Empower HTML Mail Viewer we mentioned in the past. The new version will be released on the 20th of December.
They have been working secretly in their underground [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I cannot count how many times I have been asked if there is a way to monitor data usage on your BlackBerry. I do not have this issue since I am on an unlimited plan but many other users in other countries are hobbled by limited BlackBerry data plan. For these users it has been a hit [...]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
For quite awhile now we have been noticing increased traffic to the Mobile Version of BerryReview. We had gotten quite a few requests to add functionality to our mobile sites so we finally got out act together .
The newly redesigned mobile site allows you to do practically everything you can do on the desktop [...]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Josep just sent me a link to the new Google Mobile Blog and Google’s website for all their mobile applications. This is a great place to read up and check out all the current Google Mobile offerings and see demo’s of what they look like. Google as always skimps about the details with only 3 [...]
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