Promo Video for Rogers & CIBC Mobile Payment App Coming November 16th
Earlier today Rogers and CIBC had Canadian Olympic medalist, Simon Whitfield, make the first NFC mobile payment using a BlackBerry at Tim Hortons. He purchased a coffee if you were interested. š They also released this promo video from the event. Now we know the app is officially called the CIBC Mobile Payment app and…
Beautiful "A Day in Life" Journal App For the PlayBook
XLabz has pulled off another beautiful PlayBook app this time focusing on personal Journals with an app called A Day in Life. The app gives you a simple yet visually pleasing journal interface to jot down your ideas and more along with weather and location tagging along with photos and more. Features include: Weather…
Rogers & CIBC Kick of NFC Payments in Canada With BlackBerry Bold 9900 & Curve 9360 Support
We told you before that Rogers and CIBC were launching their new NFC payment system shortly. Well the time has come and the new service will be used for the first time today. The service currently only supports the NFC packing BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Curve 9360 but more devices are set to come…
Woman Writes 200 Page Book On Her BlackBerry & Gets a Publishing Deal
I am always amazed when I hear the stories of people typing papers and books on their BlackBerrys. The latest story is about Georgina Campbell, a mother of 3, who wrote her 55,600 word 200 page book āThe Kickdown Girlsā on her BlackBerry. She wrote the whole thriller about a group of girls growing up…
Build Your Own Universe With WorldCraft For the PlayBook (Minecraft Clone)
SolverLabs has made a name for itself over the years of creating professional clones of popular games from other platforms. After we mentioned āRevenge of the Pigsā Jason let me know that SolverLabs has another hit called WorldCraft that slipped under the radar. WorldCraft is a clone of the very popular Minecraft game on other…
Devs Don’t Forget To Integrate BlackBerry Messenger in your BlackBerry 10 App
Quite a few top tier BlackBerry apps got a nice boost when RIM first introduced their BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform SDK. This allowed third party developers to plug into the BlackBerry infrastructure and use it for peer to peer communication and sharing. RIM is promising more on this front for BlackBerry 10 but they have…
Revenge of the Pigs Holidays Released by SolverLabs
SolverLabs has released their latest installment of their knock off franchise with Revenge of the Pigs Holidays edition. This new update takes their previous Revenge of the Pigs free & paid versions and adds a holiday spin. That means 216 levels in four different holiday seasons including Halloween, Easter Weekend, Love Mood (Valentineās Day), and…
Foursquare Brings Explore Feature to BlackBerry Platform First
If you needed any more signs that Foursquare really embraces their BlackBerry community then look no further than their latest app update. We told you when we announced the availability of v5.5 of Foursquare that we had a tip about the update adding Explore functionality for users without accounts. It turns out that the tip…