It seems like RIM has returned from WES with some real action plans. They have just released BlackBerry OS 4.5.0.37 Bundle 52 to their BlackBerry partners. This is promising news since it usually means that the official OS 4.5 release is not that far off.
Just in case all of you wanted to know.  The new OS 4.5.0.37 [...]

One of our readers who wishes to remain anonymous just let me know that BES 4.1.6 is now available to BlackBerry partners. The official name for the upcoming BES will be ”BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange v4.1 Service Pack 6 bundle 7″ The best part is that this release will bring HTML email to the table. [...]

While watching Til Death last night I saw a great ad on TV for the BlackBerry curve from AT&T. Very well done. Afterwards when I was checking my Gmail I noticed this advertisement on the top of the page:

I then did a search for BlackBerry in Google and look what I found in the adsense [...]

I just visited mobile.blackberry.com from my Berry and found a new application called the BlackBerry wallet. It lets you store your owner information, credit cards, gift cards, login credentials, loyalty cards, and shipping addresses for easy access. Its much better than the password manager.

Info:BlackBerry® Wallet has been designed to make shopping on your BlackBerry® smartphone [...]

Every ounce of irony is intended on this one. Seriously I thought removable faceplates and such were not important to smartphone users. The last faceplate I had was on my Nokia 3650  and I don’t miss the flimsy feel. (or the flashing see through keypad I shamelessly sported)
I guess RIM thinks I am wrong. Kevin [...]

Bplay just released four slick Star Wars themes that I thought looked really well done. I know I grew up on this stuff so I am a bit biased but see for yourself.

The themes are all in Zen format and feature one for Hans Solo, Anakin Skywalker, Boba Fett, & Darth Vader so far. The [...]

Since I am not a Lotus guru I can only read this and do my best to explain it to you. RIM and IBM have hooked up to create the ultimate collaboration tool for BlackBerry. It integrates a ton of things that I just had to copy and paste from the press release to get [...]

John Cox of InfoWorld got the details on the upcoming BES 5.0 while at WES. The information is not the most detailed but seems to focus more on a trend. RIM is trying to simplify the management, deployment, and maintenance of BES. Essentially making it as transparent as possible.
For example 5.0 will allow admins to [...]

I guess RIM is really serious about reaching out to their developers. They have decided to break off a chunk of WES with a new announced BlackBerry Developer Conference. This years conference is planned for October 20, 2008 in Santa Clara, California. The new conference is intended to help developers keep up with the latest hardware, software, [...]

I just got an emails from readers, Nikolaus & Gareth, letting me know that RIM has updated their mobile.blackberry.com page to a whole new look. The problem is that this website looks like something I created back in 1995.

RIM has been steadily downgrading the coolness and look of the mobile.blackberry.com portal. First they removed the [...]