Fixmo Messenger Public Beta Brings BBM to Your Desktop
Over the years there have been a few solutions for chatting on BBM from your desktop over USB or Bluetooth. Now Fixmo has blown those all away with Fixmo Messenger. You simply install the beta app on your BlackBerry after which you create an account and then head on over to their website and enter…
Hands On With the BlackBerry PlayBook Web Browser
The web browser on the BlackBerry PlayBook is one of the key parts making up the PlayBook experience. I do not think I could cover all it can do in one article but I will attempt to hit the highlights. The browser opens the door for many of the web apps you currently enjoy…
HOT! WebKit Web Inspector on the BlackBerry PlayBook for Web Developers!!!
I have been begging RIM to release some form of WebKits Web Inspector for web developers since they released BlackBerry 6 with the Torch WebKit browser. It looks like they are finally listening with the BlackBerry PlayBook. I was sifting through the options in the browsers menu and ran across an option to “Enable Web…
RIM Gives Us Some Insight Into the BlackBerry PlayBook Web Platform Team
In the latest official Inside BlackBerry interview we have RIM introducing us to Matthew, the manager of the Browser & Web Platform team at RIM. Many of you may remember Matthew from the previous official browsing video demos RIM has released. He heads the team that is designing the browsing experience on the PlayBook and…
RIM Launches BlackBerry PlayBook WebWorks SDK at DevCon Asia
We I guess we now know what “Very very early in the next year” meant when RIM said that about the WebWorks SDK for the PlayBook. They have just released the new web based development Tablet SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The cool part about these apps is that they will be easily portable from…
New BlackBerry PlayBook Demo Video Shows Off Browser
We saw a little bit of the BlackBerry PlayBooks browser in a previous demo comparing it with the iPad. This time RIM decided to take a different angle by showing off how you can use the web just like you do on your desktop. They do this by showing off sites like YouTube and then…
Jim Balsillie to Apple: “You Don’t Need an App for the Web”
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie was a veritable fount of information at the Web 2.0 Summit event. While on stage he was asked what he would say to Steve Jobs if he were there. His response “You finally showed up.” I am loving how RIM’s CEOs are finally starting to break out of their business shell…