Archive for the 'RIM' Category
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Yesterday when we posted some video & screenshots of Desktop Manager 4.5 somebody (Sir Brian of Dunwoody) asked why we left off the Media Manager. Turns out its there but we forgot about it. Feel free to check out the screencandy below:
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Our anonymous tipster also showed us an interesting screenshot of the files installed by the upcoming BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.5. I guess Josep was on the money when he caught the Symbian files.
Turns out that when you install Desktop Manager 4.5 it installs two new DLL files in the Common files folder shown below:
VBBClientCommForNokia.dll
VBBClientCommForWM.dll
I wonder [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I know that BoyGenius showed you some screenshots before of OS 4.5 before but here is some video from an anonymous donor. There are also the eyecandy screenshots below. Sadly there is no changelog and NO we do not know where you can download this but its nice to see that RIM is working on [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
I know many of you were excited when we first announced the availability of the BlackBerry wallet application. Then sort of disappointed when we explained how it works. Well now we have some better news.
RIM has released 3 support documents for BlackBerry wallet. These documents outline exactly what a web developer or online store need [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
I know this argument has been going on for ages. Is it BlackBerrys or BlackBerries. I have heard the points on both sides and personally held by BlackBerrys. Even the trusty Wikipedia refers to both the plural “BlackBerrys” AND “BlackBerries” in their article.
So I did the research and it turns out all of us were [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Thanks to Raffy for sending this one in. RIM is finally holding its own against the requests from India’s government. They have answered that they do not have the technology (and should not) to decrypt and spy on their users emails.
From the coverage by the WSJ’s Livemint.com:
“The Blackberry security architecture for enterprise customers is purposefully [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Hope you guys are having fun with OS 4.5… The links had to be taken down per request. We didn’t start the fire I recommend searching the web if your still looking for the latest OS versions.
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Thanks to a very friendly birdie we can offer you some insight as to what is new with the BlackBerry 4.6.0 Java Development environment we mentioned before.
I copied some of the items I found interesting below but you can get the full PDF by going to this link on RapidShare. I wonder what all this [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Chalk this one up to the RUMOR category. Josep just caught some interesting information in the device.xml file. (Translated to English) It seems like there is reference to a new (SYM) Symbian virtual platform for BlackBerry.
I know it has been over a year since RIM mentioned the Virtual BlackBerry experience for Windows Mobile and they have still [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
I just got word that RIM has just released some of the development tools for OS 4.6 to their BlackBerry Universe Partners.
Included in this update:
4.6.0 BlackBerry JDE Beta 1 Release Notes
4.6.0 BlackBerry JDE Component Package Beta 1
4.6.0 BlackBerry JDE Beta 1
This is just another sign that the public OS 4.6 release is coming [...]
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