Friday, February 25, 2011

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RIMarkable.com is having a 50% off Tether for BlackBerry Sale where you can pick up Tether for BlackBerry for $24.99.  For those of you not familiar with Tether for BlackBerry, it is an application that allows you to use your BlackBerry device as a highspeed, broadband modem for your laptop, PC or Mac, without having to pay your wirless carrier any additional fees on to of your existing data plan.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Facebook for BlackBerry v2.0 Pictures Leaked

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Facebook for BlackBerry v2.0 pictures have been leaked, and, from the looks of it Facebook Chat is now integrated into the official app.  Rumor has it that Facebook for BlackBerry v2.0 will be released in May and enter beta in March.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Pandora for BlackBerry updated to v1.1.7

The popular internet radio client, Pandora for BlackBerry, has been updated to version 1.1.7.  There is no change log, so, we assume that this is just a maintenance release.

[Via The Unofficial BlackBerry Blog]

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Twitter for BlackBerry updated to version 1.0.1.12

Just downloaded Twitter for BlackBerry v1.0.1.12 to my Storm 9530.  Unfortunatly, there wasn't a change log so I am not sure what this version fixes over the last version.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

HTC Annouces Two "Facebook Enhanced" Android Devices

Today at Mobile World Congress 2011, HTC announced two new Android powered phones equipped with enhanced Facebook integration including a dedicated context-aware Facebook button that allows photos and links to automatically be shared and lights up when such an option is available.

[Via RIMarkable]

Monday, February 14, 2011

BlackBerry press releases coming out of MWC2011

There have been a lot of BlackBerry related press releases coming out of RIM this morning...

Thursday, February 10, 2011

BlackBerry PlayBook to run Android Apps Natively In 2nd Half

Rumors that RIM may allow Android apps to run on the BlackBerry PlayBook have been floating around for a few weeks, but, a recent article in BusinessWeek paints a different picture of how the PlayBook will do so.  Initially it was thought that RIM would use Dalvik VM as a Java virutal machine, the same VM used in Android.  BusinessWeek sources, however, claim that RIM will actually build its own software component to add to the QNX operating system and that it may be available  for the BlackBerry PlayBook in the second half of this year.