Got an email yesterday from Derik with a link to a new promotional video from RIM. The video shows off the email, documents, and phone features of the Bold. Sadly they were not “Bold” enough to show off the web browser & media player…
Check it out at this link…

I guess I sat on this one [...]

So I have been hearing this name bounced back and forth and with the help of Gareth, Lois, Vicky, & Greg I managed to get to the bottom of it. Turns out Quincy is an application which is part of OS 4.5 Betas (and many previous betas) that reports back some configuration and debugging files. No it [...]

I was browsing the BerryReview Mobile Edition and noticed that RIM is advertising on our website. Namely they are advertising a new page that lists 13 of their homescreen shortcuts that RIM has created. I already noticed a few missing including the Goal.com shortcut we mentioned previously (and the BerryReview shortcut ).

Check it out to see if [...]

UPDATE: Sorry for the confusion it is only available currently for the 8300, 8310, & 8320.
UPDATE 2: Some people are reporting issues with this OS on their 8320 devices with T-Mobile
I love the internet! Thanks to Randy & Robbie for both sending this in!
R.P has just posted links to one of the latest BlackBerry OS [...]

RIM has been really busy lately delivering a lot of good stuff in the weeks and months to come. The latest update is that Desktop Manager 4.5 is now officially released. (as opposed to it being available unofficially for quite awhile) Nothing really crazy new in this release but it is news.  

With all the new [...]

Raffy just sent me this message and it was confirmed by the same from Joe at www.dataoutages.com. It seems like the upcoming BIS 2.5 with HTML email and all will be going down next weekend. From what I can tell the activation will happen the next day.
From RIM’s announcement:
Maintenance Summary: BlackBerry Internet Service v2.4 upgrade [...]

Thanks to Nanu who sent over some more screenshots of the upcoming Desktop Manager 4.6 Media sync. I thought it might interest all of you. These ones are nice and high quality.

Nikolaus Walch let me know that RIM has sent out an auto-update to all current BlackBerry Unite 1.01 users. (For more info check out this post) I should have prompted you with the following message:

So far we don’t know what changed in the update but it updates Unite 1.0.1 from bundle 29 to 35. Version 1.01 fixed the browser issue so here is [...]

Just got an email from Chris on www.dataoutages.com that the outage we mentioned earlier today is over.
Trouble Ticket Number: TT000007257842
Severity: High
Description of Issue: Degradation of RIM Blackberry services
Location of Issue: Southeast Markets and surrounding areas
Start Time: June 18, 2008 3:25 AM PDT
Time of Resolution: June 18 2008 6:54 AM PDT
Total Duration: 3 Hours and 29 [...]

This seems to be mainly effecting AT&T BlackBerry users in the Southeast markets but there have been reports of issues internationally. The issue seems to be growing currently as they are trying to reroute data through a different datacenter. Right now there is no estimated time of resolution.
Thanks to Win & Bob on www.dataoutages.com for the [...]