ReadItNow Pocket Client Goes Native on BlackBerry 10
The awesome ReadItNow app just went native on BlackBerry 10. In case you do not know ReadItNow is a client for the popular Pocket service that lets you save web pages to read later. Pocket used to be called ReadItLater if that rings more bells. Well ReadItNow is now Built for BlackBerry certified and it…
BBM for Android Now Available on Google Play
Right after the launch of BBM for iPhone we now have the official availability of BBM for Android. The app is up in Google Play for the first time and it is free. Keep in mind BlackBerry is limiting the approvals so you will be put in a queue to get full access. Check out…
BBM for iPhone Goes Live in iTunes – Android Link Available But Not Live
The BBM for iPhone client is now live in iTunes. You can find it at this link though you will still have to wait in for your BBID to be approved. They have made the Google Play URL live but sadly it is showing as not found yet.
Over 1 Million iPhone Users "Sideloaded" BBM On Their Phones
BlackBerry snuck in an interesting statistic when they announced today’s rollout for BBM Cross Platform. They announced that “more than one million people have found creative ways to side load BBM on their iPhone.” I have been hearing from users who found ways to do this but I find the number astonishing. That is some…
BlackBerry Teams Up with Wolfram Alpha For BlackBerry 10 Voice Control
BlackBerry has teamed up with Wolfram Technology to help power answers to voice questions on BlackBerry 10. At the Wolfram Technology Conference today they announced that Wolfram|Alpha will be available to BlackBerry customers with OS 10.2 through Voice Control. This will allow users to ask questions of Wolfram’s human curated collection of data including: –…
BBM for Android and iPhone Re-Launch Starts Today!
We have been hearing rumblings about this coming today but now it is here. BlackBerry has announced BBM for Android and iPhone to start rolling out today. It will be in Google Play, the App Store and in select Samsung App Stores. BlackBerry is implementing a line up system for the rollout allowing you to…
Fake BBM Apps for Android Continue to Flood Google Play
BlackBerry is still struggling with getting BBM ready for a relaunch after an epic failure of a launch last month. During the first launch there were many fake BBM apps that made it into Google Play which were then removed. Now we have the same thing happening again with more fake BBM apps showing up…
Facebook Now Back to 100% After Suffering Global Issues
We heard from some readers that Facebook for BlackBerry was not working this morning. It seems like the problem is a global issue with Facebook that is supposedly now resolved. It was a global outage caused by network maintenance and was resolved in a little over 2 hours. Check out the details at Mashable.