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News December 9, 2010

RIM Rebrands Annual WES Conference as BlackBerry World

RIM announced the name change from to annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium, aka WES, conference. Now it will simply be ‘BlackBerry World’. This change marks a further move away from focusing only on the enterprise, or business customer. Typically the yearly conference is filled with Sales and IT staff from companies all over the world learning [...]

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Reviews October 24, 2010

by LarryGreenberg

Video Review: ADT PULSE Interactive Security System

When the new ADT PULSE system became available in my area I immediate jumped at the chance to have it installed in my home. PULSE not only allows for the ability to arm and disarm one’s home security system from anywhere in the world, it does much more. The new ADT PULSE system is all [...]

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eBooks, News September 28, 2010

by Carly Z

Kobo And Amazon Confirm eBooks Will Be Big On the PlayBook

iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/15337155″ width=”400″ height=”300″ frameborder=”0″> Kobo with BBM from Kobo on Vimeo. It’s looking more and more like eBooks are the “killer feature” for tablets. Everyone is bragging about ebook integration into their tablets, from the iPad and iBooks to Kobo being native on the Galaxy Tab and now on the Blackberry Playbook as well! [...]

Blackberry Takes A Shot At iPad Glory With The Playbook

At today’s Blackberry development conference RIM announced their soon to be released tablet device named the Blackberry Playbook. The 7″ tablet features a 1GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB RAM, and front and rear facing cameras. It’ll run flash 10.1 with hardware acceleration and it supports HTML5. The device also has both HDMI and USB ports. It’ll [...]

UAE To Suspend All Blackberry Use Because They Can’t Eavesdrop On Them

It seems that more than a million BlackBerry users may have key services in Saudi Arabia and the UAE cut off after authorities stepped up demands on smartphone maker Research In Motion for access to encrypted messages sent over the device. The BlackBerry’s Messenger application (which allows users of Blackberry’s to chat with each across [...]

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News July 9, 2010

by Joel McLaughlin

Remember NTP? They’re back and they are suing everybody.

To refresh your memory, NTP is the company that in 2006 sued the creator of the Blackberry, Research in Motion, otherwise known as RIM. RIM settled out of court with NTP for 612 million. Not chump change. RIM is still around and they are not being sued again by NTP, but almost everyone else is. [...]

Tangoe Simplifies the Expense and Management of Wireless Devices

As companies continue to “go mobile” to take advantage of giving their employees the means to manage their work anytime or anywhere, the inevitable problems of how to manage devices and costs quickly becomes top priority. Imagine being able to easily manage all of the service costs for each device — before those pricey overage [...]

RIM Introduces The BlackBerry Developer Resource Center

You gotta hand it to RIM. They’re really working hard to earn developer love. Today, the Canadian mobile phone giant announced the BlackBerry Developer Resource Center. This portal will make things much easier for developers who need or want to build some BlackBerry apps. Part of the problem — and the complaint from developers — [...]

RIM Makes BlackBerry 9650 and 3G Pearl 9100 Devices Official at WES, World Yawns

[images courtesy of geeky gadgets] If you were expecting the first round of announcements from RIM’s 2010 Wireless Enterprise Symposium (aka WES) to be earth shatteringly awesome, well you’ll be a bit disappointed. While we’re still hoping to see RIM’s 6.0 OS in action with full webkit browser glory, we’re going to have to settle [...]

Proporta Adds Droid, Nexus One and Storm 2 Cases, Plus a Coupon!

So your Droid is now rocking 2.1, and you need a way to protect it! Or you snapped up a Nexus One, and now you want to make sure it looks pristine. And maybe you stuck with a Blackberry and bought yourself a Storm 2. No matter what you have, Proporta has new cases for [...]

Review: Poynt for iPhone OS

Back in June, Jason took at look at the Poynt application for the Blackberry OS. He called it a “staple” on his Blackberry and one of the best applications available. Well Poynt is back, this time with a release for the iPhone OS. The free application hit the iTunes App Store early last week, and [...]

Using LogMeIn Rescue+Mobile To Remotely Support Smartphone Users

Let’s face it, no one enjoys contacting their IT department at work. By the time that call comes it is usually preceded by a lengthy bout of frustration, swearing and pounding of fists. While it used to just be your PC or Mac giving you fits, now you are probably just as exhausted trying to [...]

Review: Clear Coat, the Clear Choice for Maximum Protection

There are plenty of choices when it comes to screen and body protection for your electronic devices and I think I’ve tried them all. Clear Coat might just be the best of the bunch. What is Clear Coat? Here’s how the company describes it. Simply put, Clear-Coat is the only protection you’ll need for your [...]

BlackBerry Browser to Boldly Go Where Others Have Gone Before

While we patiently wait for a new — hopefully WebKit-based – BlackBerry Web Browser, RIM just filed a stop-gap measure patent to help speed up their mobile browsing experience. The patent details using a proxy server to compress data from web requests and serve up standard HTTP while automatically downloading and caching images. Sound familiar? [...]

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Reviews January 14, 2010

by LarryGreenberg

Review: Pong radiation reducing case for iPhone

Are you concerned about cell phone radiation? Radiation is a form of energy. Your cell phones antenna emits powerful radiation in order to send and receive signals to and from its wireless network. According to researchers the problem with this is some of this energy radiates from the antenna into your head. Sound scary? You [...]