Archive for the 'Vendor' Category
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
RIM is giving away copies of Holiday Midnight Pool for the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl series devices. This game seems to be Gameloft’s Holiday Midnight Pool game for the BlackBerry.
The downloads are available from the BlackBerry Owners Lounge and do not have OTA options. I never really understood RIM’s reasoning for separating their mobile site [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Free Software, Games, News, RIM
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
I am paranoid about security so I found this Knowledgebase article by RIM very useful. In this article RIM describes the exact steps you need to take to put your BlackBerry device in lockdown. It does not include instructions on how to encrypt the memory card and device memory but that is a straight forward [...]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
It seems like T-mobile has decided to push out a link to all of their BlackBerry subscribers for their Facebook application. I have already received two emails about it so I thought I would let everybody else in on the details.
RIM and T-mobile have pushed out a link to many T–mobile BlackBerry users that puts [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, RIM, T-mobile
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
It is not just any device that gets blown up for the whole world to see in Times Square. I was strolling down the block this Christmas Eve and was astonished to see such a large ad for BlackBerry devices. Just thought you would enjoy seeing a BlackBerry 8300 blown up and plastered on a NYC skyscraper. [...]
5 Comments » | Posted in 8300 Curve, AT&T / Cingular, News, RIM
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Call Of Duty returns to the BlackBerry with Magmic newly released sequel to the Call Of Duty 3 Game that we reviewed a few months back. The new Call Of Duty 4 (very original) brings some new gameplay to your BlackBerry and some better graphics from what I can tell. You can read the full blurb below. [...]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
I guess this means Wall Street is back in love with RIM. They have posted some great results for this last quarter. Analysts were pretty conservative the past few weeks but the numbers RIM has posted are above even their highest expectations.
I am not much of a stock market guru but I can tell you [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
I just read an article on FOX Business News about an ABI Research forecast of RIM owning 10% of the smartphone market by year end. As Fox points out RIM has been growing every quarter from 7.2% in Q3 2006 to 9.5% in the last quarter. That puts RIM in second place after Nokia in [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
I read this article on GlobeSt.com yesterday and the first question that came to my mind was “Where in the world is Las Colinas?” I afterwards realized Las Colinas is in Texas (Geography-lapse moment). It seems like RIM has finally decided to setup shop this side of the border with this new location. They will [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Magmic has once again struck a strategic deal to bring more gaming goodness to the BlackBerry platform. This time they have joined with with IG Fun, the publishing arm of Indiagames Ltd, to port their popular games to the BlackBerry.
The first IG Fun titles Magmic intends to publish for BlackBerry are the martial arts [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
RIM has done all of us a small favor by releasing a list of compatible car kits and Bluetooth headsets that are confirmed to work with BlackBerry devices with built in Bluetooth. This is a great resource because until now car kits used to be trial and error with many users running into quite a [...]
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