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Events, News April 27, 2010

Cortado’s 5.0 Corporate Server Enables IT to Integrate Personally-Owned BlackBerry Smartphones

Tired of being saddled with those older BlackBerry smartphones for work? You want to use that shiny new device you just bought to manage work and play, but your company IT department just won’t let you. What’s a cutting-edge techie to do? Cortado may have the answer that both you and your iT department can [...]

RIM Shows Off BlackBerry OS 6 at WES — Will The New Software Update Be Enough To Keep The ‘Berry Relevant?

RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis came through at today’s WES keynote, providing a sneak peak of BlackBerry 6, the new BlackBerry OS with a refreshed UI that will debut next quarter. This update will feature the WebKit Browser, giving the BlackBerry faithful something to truly look forward to — and maybe ease the pain of the current ‘Berry [...]

RIM Announces BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5 at WES…Too Little, Too Late?

A universal number and system that can reach you regardless of whether you’re at your desk, at home, traveling for a business meeting, hitting golf balls on the greens, or just hanging out by the pool. Exciting stuff, right? Well, when RIM first brought it up at the 2007 Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES), it sounded [...]

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 — [...]

Store & Print Files from Your BlackBerry or iPhone with Cortado Workplace

The one thing that many road warriors still need is an easy and reliable way to access and print documents while on the go. If you used Cortado Workplace, you’d quickly get around that problem and give yourself an edge over your competition. Seriously, how many times have you been traveling with the hope to [...]

TeleNav Announces GPS Navigator 6.0 and OnMyWay

TeleNav, the company behind my iPhone GPS app of choice AT&T Navigator, started the week with two important announcements. First, the company has released TeleNav GPS Navigator 6.0. Launching as AT&T Navigator (v 2.0) it is currently available for the AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the AT&T BlackBerry Bold 9000. I’ve been using a pre-release [...]

BugMe! For BlackBerry: Now With Alarming New Features

If there’s one thing every smartphone user needs, it’s a way to easily manage the flood of constantly changing appointments, to-do’s, reminders and notes. These days it’s a juggling act just to try and remember what to do when, much less try and quickly add or change all of those moving target tasks you’ve got [...]

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 [...]

IM+ Lite for BlackBerry Review

An ongoing problem these days is simply how to keep up with everything and everyone? You’ve got email, Twitter, Facebook, Instant Messaging (or IM’ing as the kids simply abbreviate it these days). Don’t forget SMS texting. Unless you’re out on Mount Kilimanjaro you better get used to the expectation of being connected — and reachable [...]

Poynt for iPhone hits the iTunes App Store

Jason gave us the once over on Poynt for Blackberry back in December and now the nifty local search application is hitting the iTunes App Store too. The key to the iPhone version is the use of augmented reality technology, giving the user a real-time view of businesses, people, retailers and theaters around them. Here’s [...]

Slacker Radio 3.0 for BlackBerry & Android Brings Faster App and Improved Wireless Station Caching

It’s really no secret that many of the Gear Diary team are simply loving Slacker Radio on their smartphones. If you really want a great take on how Slacker can be customized to fit into your lifestyle, just read’s Dan’s recent post on how much use he’s been getting from Slacker. Well, guess what? If [...]

Review: Kindle for BlackBerry

Since last week’s official release of the Kindle App for BlackBerry, I’ve been putting it through its paces — and, quite honestly, comparing it to the other Kindle mobile app. You know, the one for the iPhone. How does the BlackBerry version stack up? Is it good enough on its own merits to catch a [...]

Kindle for BlackBerry Now Available!

Back in December we mentioned that Amazon was working on a Kindle application for BlackBerry. Now that free app is officially available to download for U.S. customers. Just point your BlackBerry browser over to amazon.com/kindlebb, or go to the Kindle for BlackBerry site right on your computer to email yourself the download link. Features [...]