Facebook Messenger Now Also On App World (BlackBerry Smartphones)
Facebook Messenger has been available on Facebook’s website directly for awhile now. The app gave you easy access to chatting using Facebook chat from their app. RIM has added this functionality to the Facebook for BlackBerry app making Messenger sort of redundant but some people like it. If you are one of those people you…
RIM Giving Arduino Uno Boards to Devs @ BlackBerry Jam Americas
Now this is one of those freebies from RIM that may have a deeper meaning. We have been hearing from multiple devs (confirmed by N4BB) that RIM is giving away Arduino Uno boards to developers who complete the survey at BlackBerry Jam Americas. In case you are not familiar with it the Arduino open source…
RIM Reports On Impressive Response from BlackBerry 10 Developers
RIM put out a press release this week to share some of the details of what they are seeing from BlackBerry 10 Developers. I was part of their survey for BlackBerry Dev Alpha test device owners which RIM recently performed. They found that 99% of the respondents with some of the 5,000+ Dev Alpha test…
Twitter for BlackBerry Smartphones v3.2 Hits the Beta Zone
It seems like RIM’s Beta Zone team is working double time during BlackBerry Jam. They just pushed out a new Beta of Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones bringing us to v3.2.0.10. They were even kind enough to update the change log including: Unable to post a tweet if attaching a location is disabled Find Friends dialog…
BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012 Mobile Guide Now Available
Just as they promised on Twitter RIM has released the BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012 Mobile Guide. This is cutting it pretty close since the event starts tomorrow but either way it will definitely be useful. The guide is available for OS 6.0+ BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBooks. It lets you check out the session catalog, look…
Files & Folders Gets Maintenance Release v5.1 To Fix Google Drive & SkyDrive Bugs
The Innovatology team just pushed out a quick maintenance release to the popular Files & Folders PlayBook App. This is to fix two bugs identified in the major v5.0 release we told you about last week. This new v5.1 includes fixes for: Google Drive: Some files uploaded via the Google Drive desktop client or website…
Free Zombie Attack Game Adds 50 New Levels for Halloween
If you needed help to get into the Halloween spirit then check out Zombie Attack from Smarter Apps. They announced a new update to the popular game that offers up 50 new levels for the game bringing the grand total of levels to 250. The zombies are supposedly also wearing Halloween costumes (really?) which…
RIM Publishes Documentation for BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 & Bridge 2.1
If you needed any more proof that BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 is coming any day now along with BlackBerry Bridge v2.1 then here it is. Piotr @BBNews.pl noticed that RIM has published an updated security overview of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 along with BlackBerry Bridge 2.1 (PDF Link). I am sure someone at RIM jumped…