Former RIM Exec Mike Kirkup Shares His Feelings on CTV
Mike Kirkup made a name for himself at RIM awhile back when he was the Senior Director of Developer Relations. He left RIM awhile back as Alec Saunders took over the reigns of wooing developers to the BlackBerry platform. Kirkup is now the Director of Student Innovation at the University of Waterloo Velocity program…
BlackBerry Curve 9350 OS 7.1.0.580 Officially Released by Sprint
If you own a BlackBerry Curve 9350 from Sprint you will be happy to learn they have pushed out a new OS update for you. This new update brings it closer to the recent Bold and Torch updates which is nice. No word on what is new in this release but expect some bug fixes….
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 & BlackBerry Device Service Get FIPS 140-2 Certification
RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 just joined the rest of the BlackBerry family by gaining FIPS 140-2 certification. This comes along with RIM’s BlackBerry Device Service, a component of BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, also getting FIPS 140-2 certification. That component is the one that manages the security and policy on the BlackBerry PlayBook and will also…
Facebook for BlackBerry v3.2.0.7 Released in the Beta Zone
RIM’s social media app developers are really going full force in the Beta Zone with rapid release cycles. They have just announced the release of v3.2.0.7 in the Beta Zone. This is once again just to round out the application with some needed features and bug fixes. The change log includes improvements for: Duplicate comment…
USB Promoter Group Approves USB Power Delivery Of Up to 100 Watts
Now this is one technology movement I am excited about. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has approved a new specification for power delivery over USB. Specifically it is called the USB Power Delivery specification and its meant to offer a smarter way to pump power through USB. This means that they will be able to…
Free Zello Push To Talk App Gets Update to v1.29
One of the up and coming push to talk apps for BlackBerry Smartphones, Zello, just received a nice update this week. This is an update to their push to talk application that is free with clients for your PC, BlackBerry, iOS, and Android devices. That means you can push to talk cross platform with ease….
OS 7.1.0.580 for the Bold 9930 and Torch 9850 Now Official from Sprint
Sprint started rolling out OS updates for their OS 7 devices over the air last week and now they are following up with desktop installs. Jason let us know that Sprint has made OS 7.1.0.580 available officially for the Bold 9930 and Torch 9850. No word on what is new in the OS but its…
Free Wikitude Augmented Reality Browser Updated to v7.1
Wikitude has updated their popular augmented reality world browser to v7.1 today. Sadly they do not have a change log for this update but I am hearing it might just be a bug fix. Check out the latest v7.1 of Wikitude free in App World and let us know if you spot anything new!