Devs: RIM Shares How BlackBerry Devs Make Money in App World
RIM shared some interesting stats at BlackBerry DevCon. They had the VP of App World, Dr Ronjon Nag, talking about the stats for App World. Nag was sharing some stats that we already heard and others that we have never heard of before like BlackBerry apps getting almost 50% more downloads than iOS and Android….
T-Mobile Offering BlackBerry Curve 9360 Free to Developers With 2 Year Contract
One of our tipsters let us know that T-Mobile has extended their offers to developers to include the just launched T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 9360. The new deal is not much different than the previous one we mentioned for the Bold 9900. T-Mobile is offering the BlackBerry Bold 9360 for free after a $50 mail in…
RIM Testing Out PlayBook OS 1.0.6 In Beta Zone for Select Developers?
Quite a few users are waiting for RIM to update the BlackBerry PlayBook OS with native email and PIM but it looks like another update is coming before that. The team at N4BB is hearing rumors that RIM is testing out BlackBerry PlayBook OS 1.0.6 for “select developers” to test out in the beta zone….
BlackBerry PlayBook Application UI Design Guidelines
I have been working on a few BlackBerry PlayBook applications over the last few weeks. A friend of mind pointed out to me that RIM published up their customary development guidelines for the BlackBerry PlayBook. This guide details how RIM thinks application developers should design their user interface and the different factors they should have…
Developers: Free BlackBerry PlayBook Offer Ends March 31st!
With all the potential BlackBerry PlayBook developers out there I thought I would post this reminder. RIM’s offer for a free BlackBerry PlayBook for developers ends at the end of the month! (unless they extend it again) That means if you have not already submitted your app to App World by March 31st then…
Recorded BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Tablets Webinars Available
I had a few devs point out to me that RIM has made their “Develop using the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for BlackBerry Tablets” webinar recordings online. If you missed one of the webinars this is a great chance to catch up on what was discussed. I got a chance to skip through a few and…
BlackBerry PlayBook Native C/C++ SDK Coming At Game Developers Conference
I am really excited about the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook Native C/C++ SDK since it will finally provide BlackBerry developers with some low level access to hardware. RIM seems to be targeting this SDK to game developers but I doubt it will stop at that unless RIM restricts it. As we mentioned yesterday this new SDK…