When RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie talked about the service issues that happened last month he was quoted saying “will never happen again.”.

The RIM VIP explained the outage was the result of an unlikely string of events – the failure of a minor software upgrade to a caching subsystem was followed by the failure of [...]

RIM Senior Vice President David Yach confirmed to eWeek that we will in fact see Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry devices by the years end. That’s all we know for now. We have also heard rumors of a UMA enabled BlackBerry in the works as well.
“I think Wi-Fi is interesting because it offers a number of capabilities, [...]

It appears that UK carrier O2 has officially launched the BlackBerry Curve. While no official launch has come from any other carriers, O2 is offering the BlackBerry Curve your first one free with contract/service then each other handset is only £51.06.
Details on O2 site

The team over at Shinny Shinny has got their hands on a pre-production BlackBerry Curve. Press play below to check out the video. Thanks to CrackBerry.com for pointing it out.

First we thought it might have been just Rogers planning to launch BIS 2.3 tomorrow (May 12th) however we are hearing from several sources that in fact it could be a North American wide launch. I guess tomorrow will tell….
Click over to see the Rogers Wireless BIS 2.3 Q&A

RIM’s latest version of their BlackBerry Internet Service 2.3 is getting ready to launch on Rogers Wireless on May 12th. The post which popped up on HowardForums earlier today. UPDATE - RIM HAS DELAYED THE RELEASE UNTIL EARLY JUNE.
BIS 2.3 gives Rogers’ customers support for Rogers Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Mail, and Gmail email, Auto-forwarding [...]

Many blogs are reporting that Pearl 2.0 is in the works as the 9100 series and that we should see it come out sometime before years end. In a recent interview with RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, BlackBerry Cool quoted him saying “I think you’re gonna see two or three big suprises from us by the [...]

Did we miss something? NO official announcement came out from either Rogers or RIM that we could find yet Rogers Wireless now is offering the Red Pearl. It’s the same price at $249 with 3 year contract. With all the news about the 8300 and 8830 over the past few weeks maybe RIM forgot to [...]

Shape Services, creator of IM+ a universal instant messaging program for your BlackBerry has introduced a Skype application today at WES (Wireless Enterprise Symposium). Skype allows you to chat or call your contacts worldwide using data instead of your carriers heavy long distance pricing. Long distance rates do apply when using Skype however they are [...]

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced a new function that would allow BlackBerry users to integrate their desk phone as an extension on their device.
“With a new intuitive menu interface, BlackBerry smartphone users can place, receive and manage enterprise calls from their handset with ease. The user’s corporate identity (caller ID) is extended to the [...]