Free HopStop Personal Navigation App for BlackBerry offers Directions in Many Cities
In case you are not familiar with HopStop they offer a very useful directions and navigation service. You can use their service to get public transit, walking, taxi, and biking directions in dozens of cities throughout the US, Canada and Europe. I use their website all the time in NYC and its great to see…
Porsche Design P’9981 Shows Up on RIM’s Website & Gets an Official Announcement
Until now all we have been hearing about the Porsche Design P’9981 has been coming second hand. Now we have an official press release from RIM about the Porsche Design Smartphone P’9981 from BlackBerry and the details are in along with tons of pictures. RIM has also confirmed the Knight codename in the names of…
Android Games Start Showing Up in App World for PlayBook OS 2.0 Beta Devices?
It looks like RIM’s tonnage of apps are coming to the PlayBook even before RIM’s current promise of a February 2012 PlayBook OS 2.0 release. Don pointed out to me that Second Gear Games has released Shopper’s Paradise HD for the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0+ devices. This game seems to be a port of their…
BBX Smartphones to Have Same Pixel Density as BlackBerry PlayBook?
I was going through my notes from DevCon last week and I remembered something that Alec Saunders, RIM’s new head of Developer Relations, said in a response to a question I asked. I asked the panel at this press only session how easy it would be to run current BlackBerry PlayBook Flash, Native, or…
BlackBerry DevCon 2011 Sessions Now Online and Available Free?!?
Usually RIM does a great job of posting up the sessions from DevCon online including audio and presentations along with sample code. The thing is that content is usually limited only to registered attendees of DevCon. Josep pointed out a thread on the forums where Adam Stanley from RIM confirms that the sessions are now…
Sweet Golf Battle 3D PlayBook Game with Online Multiplayer Fun! (Marmalade SDK)
The fun continues with the rollout of yet another Marmalade SDK developed game for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Imperial Game Studio has released Golf Battle 3D for the PlayBook today and the game is freaking awesome! It also offers online multiplayer gaming against their 250,000+ players on the PlayBook, iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows 7, and…
BBM Music v1.0.0.124 Now Available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone
RIM put out v1.0.0.117 a little over a week ago in the BlackBerry Beta Zone and then quickly yanked it out. Now they have put out a similar release of v1.0.0.124 that fixes issues along with some nice improvements though it still has a way to go. RIM was kind enough to provide the change…
BBM Generation Protégé Challenge Part I Contestants Selected – Check Them Out!
We told you before about the BBM Generation Protégé challenge that RIM was sponsoring to connect youth with celebrity influencers. Well the results are in for the first challenge that the celebrity influencers put out and I the responses are pretty cool. The results for the first challenge in the six categories come in…