Fifty Shades of Grey written on a Blackberry
If you like to write and find yourself handcuffed often, then you should probably make sure you can write with your thumbs or hands held close together, right? So many Hollywood people favored the BlackBerry for so many years for a reason. Then it should be no surprise that infamous novel-turned-into-movie “50 Shades of Grey”…
The BlackBerry is not Apple
While we’re all still hurting from BlackBerry’s decision not to bring OS 10 to the Playbook, Ronen just published his commentary on the sorry outcome, based on an article published by our friends at Crackberry.com. I decided to check the original piece, less for the piece itself than for the comment section, because Crackberry.com succeeds…
BlackBerry Bluths
Now the story of a wealthy company that made some huge mistakes and almost lost everything, and a legion of fans who have plenty of choice, but still choose to keep it all together. It’s BlackBerry’s arrested development. The Bluths are back. After a much lamented cancellation in 2006, the most dysfunctional and loved…
RIM Acquires Social Calendaring Application Tungle.Me
This one just in via TechCrunch: RIM is still on a shopping spree, this time it bought startup Tungle.Me, a social calendaring application/platform. I admit I had never heard about it, but TechCrunch describes it this way: Tungle.Me offers users a free web-based application that lets you share calendars across companies and platforms, schedule meetings…
Valor Econômico – Brazilian financial newspaper now has BlackBerry app
I don’t know how many Brazilian readers we have, if still any at all, but I am Brazilian so I thought I would mention it here. Even if you’re not in Brazil, at least enjoy the pics, it’s a good app. Valor Econômico is a Brazilian financial newspaper. Of course, they have an online version,…
Lencri.com sells spare BlackBerry parts and accessories
We have been buying spare parts and accessories from CNN.cn for several years now. They not only have very good prices, their service is also pretty good. I know, I have bought from them. But a little competition is always welcome. I just found out about Lencri.com, another Chinese company that sells BlackBerry parts and…
Pictures of BlackBerry Shield for BIS
We talked about rumors involving BlackBerry Shield for BIS some time ago. It is a security service with features such as remote device wipe, remote password change, “Lost & Found” screen, tracking, backup and alarm. That kind of functionality has always been available by means of commercial applications, but BlackBerry Shield is supposed to be…
New BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0 – Service Pack 1
The BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0 is not new, it has been available since last year. It is basically a new edition of the old Plazmic application, which has always been a very important tool for theme developers. Now apparently there is an even newer edition, with improvements which, frankly, I do not know. Vicky is…