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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Simon at BBCool has gotten some more confirmation on the feature sets of OS 4.5 and 4.6. OS 4.5 is still set to release this summer for everything but the 8707 which is what we expected. I am surprised it is including the 8703 versions but that has happened before.
They also have confirmed OS 4.6 [...]

I have always heard that RIM was a great company to work for but I finally decided to do some research on the WHY. Turns out there is this great website www.eluta.ca that explains why RIM was chosen to be one of the top 100 places to work in Canada.
My favorite is onsite cafeteria (with subsidized [...]

JSanders at BBforums got the scoop on a scheduled outage early Sunday morning. I know I wont be awake at 2AM EDT but for west coast users this will be about 11PM on Saturday night. So if your on call that night its worth to know.
From BBforums:

Medium-S3 Severity Maintenance (New) for BlackBerry Relay service for [...]

RIM has really been pumping out the new websites and flash these past few weeks. First they have all the cool new flash and descriptions for the 9000 Bold series. They also redesigned their mobile website (for the worse).
Simon at BBcool also caught the fact that RIM has also updated their solutions catalog of all [...]

RIM is giving away a free $5 Starbucks gift card in the BlackBerry Owners lounge. I guess they are trying to make up for Luciano’s rant that the Owners lounge is useless fluff. This time they are trying to buy the way to your heart with free coffee. I am not sure the connection between [...]

I just read a great interview by Natasha Lomas on Cnet.com. She interviewed Mike Lazaridis during CES and came out with some really nice gems.
The quote she got out of him on Touch Screen technology was priceless:

I worked on the very first touch screens. Let’s go back in time now–Gold Computing, Newton, Envoy, Marco–the very [...]