Gameloft Brings The Awesome Dungeon Hunter 4 to BlackBerry Z10/Z30
Those of you on BlackBerry Z10/Z30 devices just got a great game courtesy of Gameloft. Dungeon Hunter is a great dungeon crawler game that reminds me of Diablo back in the day. This is the sort of game that sucks you in and spits you out a few months later. There are loads of goodies…
Alex Kinsella Moves On To Thalmic Labs With Their Gesture Controlled Armband
Long time BlackBerry users are very familiar with Alex Kinsella due to his long stint at BlackBerry ranging from BlackBerry App World, BBM, and BlackBerry World dev relations. He has been the face of BlackBerry in quite a few settings so its worth mentioning that he has left BlackBerry to Thalmic Labs which showed off…
Third Party Vine App “Whine” Hits BlackBerry World for Free!
The BlackBerry community just received another awesome gem from a developer who stepped in to improve the platform. Vine has yet to release an official BlackBerry 10 app so Bojan Komljenovic stepped up with his own Vine client for BlackBerry 10 called Whine. It lets you record and upload your Vines from the app on…
BBM for Android & iOS Adds "Find Friends" Functionality Using Address Book
I was waiting for BlackBerry’s BBM team to finally add this feature to BBM for Android and iOS. The latest version of BBM adds the ability to find friends using BBM on Android and iOS by using your address book. This feature was in the leaked Gingerbread BBM leak for Android but this is…
Marty Mallick Introduces Himself as BlackBerry’s New VP of Global Alliances & Ecosystems
Marty Mallick has long be working on BlackBerrys partnerships with large developers, businesses, and partners for years including BlackBerry World. He is expanding his role to include BlackBerry Developer Relations now that Alec Saunders has moved to a new role in QNX. Hopefully this means that BlackBerry World will finally be in sync with the…
BlackBerry to Lower Patent Royalty Expenses Later This Year
We have been hearing about how John Chen plans to clean up BlackBerry’s business model. Now CIBC World Markets analyst Todd Coupland sat down with BlackBerry’s CFO, James Yersh, to discuss the details. According to the Financial Post, Yersh has a goal to bring operating expenses well below $500 million a quarter target to be…
Adobe Reader for BlackBerry 10 Adds Form Entry & Usability Improvements
BlackBerry has pushed out a small update to the Adobe reader for BlackBerry 10 app today. Amir sent over the change log and it is pretty short. Mainly they added the ability to enter forms and other usability enhancements. They have also fixed it to work with the Z30 BlackBerry Screen Reader accessibility function….
Cross Platform Piip Messenger Comes to BlackBerry 10
Piip Messenger is the latest cross platform messaging client to come to BlackBerry 10. The interesting part here is that the app is free and cross platform. In this case it is also available on desktops including Windows, OSX, and even Linux. In short it is available practically everywhere including a web messenger option. They…