Archive for the 'RIM' Category
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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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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Monday, December 17th, 2007
A bit back I had a friend of mine ask me about a problem he had when buying a ringtone from AT&T’s MEdia Net store. I told him that his first problem was paying for a ringtone but that is besides the point. While trolling the RIM Knowledgebase today and ran into a work around RIM has [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Alexander Wolfe of InformationWeek has written a great editorial on the recent comparison Consumer Reports did on smartphones. His claim is that Consumer Reports has rated the BlackBerry completely out of sync with reality. The BlackBerry is rated #7 in the full list of smartphone ratings way below the Windows Mobile devices such as the [...]
2 Comments » | Posted in Editorial, News, RIM
Friday, December 14th, 2007
UPDATED: KioskGuy thanks for pointing out the error of our ways Electronic Art is actually a custom Kiosk vendor.
Just thought you guys would be interested. Electronic Art, a kiosk vendor the creators of all those EA Games, has just announced that they will be working with AT&T and Rogers to create kiosks for their [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in AT&T / Cingular, News, RIM
Friday, December 7th, 2007
I just got an email from RIM about their booth at CES 2008 this January. If you are not sure what CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is then check out their website at: http://www.cesweb.org
The show is set to be huge this year and I think I may be attending the extravaganza this year. You can read [...]
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Josep just sent me a link to a new portal on RIM’s website for all the native RIM Instant Messaging applications. The applications are still restricted to specific carriers by service books but if your carrier does support them the links are now all in one place.
I also noticed on the AOL Instant Messenger page [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I was just reading a great article about BlackBerry sales this past Thanksgiving on Seeking Alpha. It seems that even though RIM was not celebrating Thanksgiving in Canada they did quite well and have much to be thankful for with over 1.7 million new subscribers so far this quarter.
Seeking Alpha has some really great stats on [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
If you are one of those people (like me) who has to have the latest version of everything…RIM has just released updated versions of the Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger clients. The version is a bump from 2.0.33 to 2.0.38. As usual RIM has provided no release notes or change log so we have no [...]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
I was just forwarded a great link on the BlackBerry website that breaks down the features of each different BlackBerry email solution. The features are displayed in an easy to digest chart that I found very useful. I know I have received quite a few questions about the differences between BES and BlackBerry Professional Software [...]
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