Retail Support Reps Across Canada and the US Sent Packing
Although John Chen has assured us that BlackBerry will remain a player in the handset business, he has also made it clear that there will be a focus on businesses. Marketstar, a company that has worked with BlackBerry to promote and support their products has been forced to lay off some of their reps…
Awesome Thomson Reuters Eikon Financial app for BlackBerry 10 (Native)
BlackBerry just had another hard hitting financial business app release for BlackBerry 10. Thomson Reuters has released their Thomson Reuters Eikon app for BlackBerry 10. This gives Eikon subscribers (an alternative to Bloomberg terminals) access to real time financial markets data on their BlackBerry 10 device. Best of all it comes in a fast and…
Business Card Reader & Document Scanner Apps for BlackBerry 10
To Xuan Triet has been working hard to bring more OCR capabilities to BlackBerry 10. He has followed up his nice Document Scanner app with a separate Business Card Reader app for English. It allows you to easily scan in business cards to your address book using your camera on BlackBerry 10. It still needs…
T-Mobile Launches BlackBerry Q10 Registration Page for Business Customers
Its interesting how T-Mobile puts their business customers first compared to other carriers who put them last. The latest showing from T-Mobile is the opening of a pre-registration page for business customers as promised. You simply give them your email and name and it will tell you more about the launch when they have the…
T-Mobile Opens Up Business Pre-Orders for BlackBerry Z10
T-Mobile has one-upped AT&T by offering the BlackBerry Z10 for preorder to businesses today. That is a day before AT&T offers them tomorrow. T-Mobile is still being cagey about the consumer launch date but told Reuters it would be before the end of the month. We are still waiting for Verizon to crack and announce…
BlackBerry Beta Zone Redesigned & New Business Beta Zone Launches
RIM has been gathering feedback for awhile now on how to improve the BlackBerry Beta Zone and they have now executed. They have redesigned it along with improving things like the mobile experience and a more user friendly interface. They have also launched the new clearly separated Business Beta section of the Beta Zone…
RIM Splitting Off Beta Zone for Business Into New Sub-Site
I am not sure what the main purpose of this split is but RIM claims it is necessary. RIM sent out an email to many beta zone participants saying that they are creating a new sub-site called BlackBerry Beta Zone for Business specifically for business software and services. These programs were already in the regular…
Card2Contact BlackBerry Business Card Scanner Updated
Card2Contact let us know that they have updated their BlackBerry app for their Card2Contact business card scanning service. The new version improves the contacts page to view the uploaded business cards status and other pending tasks. In case you are not familiar with Card2Contact they differentiate themselves by promising 100% accuracy for their conversion by…