RIM’s CEO & CMO Share More BlackBerry 10 Launch Details in Latest Interview
Note to self: Next time I see Thorsten Heins I need to hit him up for some BlackBerry fire decals for my Vespa. With that said Kevin over @CrackBerry made the trip to RIM’s headquarters during their annual shareholders meeting this week. While there he sat down with RIM’s new CMO Frank Boulben and ran…
Caveman HD (Lemmings Clone) Comes to the PlayBook
Awhile back we told you about Aaron Ardiri who joined RIM as a Senior Technical Evangelist. He wrote up a detailed recount of how he ported one of his games, Cronk, that he created as an independent developer to the PlayBook. Now Ardiri’s development company, Mobile1Up, has released a second game for the PlayBook called…
Easily Jot Down Expenses and Export them to CSV With MoneyMind
K2 Mobile mentioned their new app MoneyMind in the forums and it caught my attention. I have been using memopad and other solutions for quickly jotting down expenses and then recording them when I get back to the office. MoneyMind hopes to simplify that with a bare bones expense manager for BlackBerry smartphones. It simply…
Blaq PlayBook Twitter Client Updated to v1.8.3
Jerome over at Kisai Labs let us know that they have released a new update to the very popular Blaq PlayBook Twitter client. The new version includes some nice updates including profile image caching and hardware acceleration. It also packs some tweaks and bug fixes all around. The change log includes: What’s New? Inline photo…
Foursquare Gets Another Small Bug Fix Release With v5.0.5
Right on the heels of their previous bug fix update to v5.0.1, Foursquare has brought us v5.0.5. This version promises some bug fixes and enhancements for their big v5 overhaul. Let us know if you spot anything new! Check out the updated Foursquare v5.0.5 in App World
Truphone Shares Story of Porting Their VoIP App to BlackBerry 10
One area where current BlackBerry OS Java developers have long struggled with is true VoIP communications. That is the reason I was very happy when Tru decided to share some of the details of how they ported their VoIP app to BlackBerry 10. They have been documenting some of the steps on their blog but…
BlackBerry Mobile Voice System v5.2 Adds Wi-Fi to Cellular Handoff
Awhile back RIM added a key feature to BlackBerry Mobile Voice System which allowed it to handoff phone calls from cellular connections to Wi-Fi connections. They have now updated MVS to v5.2 which adds a few key features. The one that really caught my interest was the automatic network handoff between Wi-Fi back to wireless…
Desktop Manager v7.1.0.31 Now in Beta Zone
RIM has just put out a new version of BlackBerry Desktop Software v7.1.0.31 in the Beta Zone. This version offers some improvements for consumers along with allowing developers to hook up Dev Alpha devices. (Thankfully I have not needed it with mine) RIM provided this change log for the v7.1 branch including Add a BlackBerry…