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WES2009 Moments And Highlights From Tuesday On Twitter

By Susan C on May 06, 2009 in BlackBerry, RIM, Random News, Random Thoughts, WES 2009.

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WES2009 has now been going on for two days. I’ve been watching my Twitter, reading it and enjoying the pictures and updates. While it was somewhat quiet today, there were a few tweets from our fellow Tweets. So here’s what you have missed this Tuesday if you’re not following Al Sacco, Bla1ze, CrackBerry Adam, CrackBerry Kevin, Nan Palmero, and/or Simon Sage. Thanks to these fantastic BlackBerry advocates, we are able to have a glimpse of what we’re missing. So here’s what happened Tuesday.

Keynotes today, and Mike Lazaridis spoke about the BlackBerry birthday, success, and growth. There was a little bit spoken about Chalk Media and Mobile Voice System. Wireless Presentation Solution for Projecting Power Point was mentioned. LotusLive was mentioned as well. Today was mostly pertaining to BES, but there were some fun moments and the entertainment for the evening was a dj and Will.i.am.

And if you Twitter and would like to stay in the loop with WES 2009, please follow @asacco @azeis @crackberrykevin @nanpalmero @simonsage @videos4bb @kasperapd for great coverage and up to the minute Twitter news and TwitPics.

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RIM CEO confirms BlackBerry Storm 2 in the works!

By James on May 05, 2009 in BlackBerry, RIM, Random News, Rumors, Storm 9500 Series.

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Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie has confirmed with Reuters that they are in fact working on a next generation Storm. RIM saw strong sales of their heavily criticized BlackBerry Storm and that means that they will continue working on next generation versions for the consumer market. The RIM CEO would not confirm anymore details about the device and if it will even be called “Storm 2″ but I guess that’s just part of the waiting game.

Here’s part of what Balsillie had to say: Balsillie said Storm sales remain strong and added “we have next-generation devices with that and the whole roadmap.”

[via CNET]

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WES2009 Moments and Highlights From Monday On Twitter

By Susan C on May 05, 2009 in BlackBerry, General, RIM, Random News, Random Thoughts, WES 2009.

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Many of us weren’t able to attend WES2009, but there those who are there who are generous enough to go and share the adventure and information with us as they explore the event. These great BlackBerry Gurus have brought the WES2009 to us through video and Twitter. In case you have missed Monday, I’m going to share some great moments, thanks to Al Sacco, Bla1ze, Crackberry Adam, Crackberry Kevin, Nan Palmero, and Simon Sage. Thank you guys for sharing the information and fun moments with us, we salute you!

Some brief moments shared so far as shared on Twitter. Now besides the news coming through Monday, they had mahi mahi, an open bar. Now for news. There are over 200,000 BlackBerry Servers around the globe. There are over 10 million Facebook downloads to BlackBerry smartphones. BES 5.0 was released today. BlackBerry and HP have joined together to bring HP Cloudprint to let you print to the closest printer, does not require BES, supports printers outside of HP, and is a free app. BlackBerry MVS (Mobile Voice System)is like Google Voice. The 8900 was announced and will be offered by AT&T. The newest BlackBerry, the Gemini was announced. For specific press releases you can click here.

And if you Twitter and would like to stay in the loop with WES 2009, please follow @asacco @azeis @crackberrykevin @nanpalmero @simonsage @videos4bb @kasperapd for great coverage and up to the minute Twitter news and TwitPics.

[via: CrackBerry & Twitter]

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Software Upgrade Alert: LiveTracker v0.2.0 Now Supports Twitter!

By Susan C on May 04, 2009 in BlackBerry, Downloads, Random News, Software.

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The Skylab Tracking Team has just informed us that their LiveTracker for BlackBerry app now supports Twitter. The program is still in beta but it’s also free for noncommercial use. With this program you now have the ability to share your GPS location through Twitter. That’s pretty sweet, free and to tweet it too! For those of you who by chance have not heard of this application, this is what it is.

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The application can be installed on any BlackBerry handset and sends out your location data to the Skylab  GPS server. It does background tracking, so if you start it, it will send the GPS to the tracking server. It includes a free tracking server. You can send your location through email, pin, sms, mms, and now Twitter to your location’s map representation. This is great not only for yourself, for friends, family members, and employees. I can see a lot of possibilities with this application. If you would like to download LiveTracker in Beta #3, you can find it here.  

Supported Devices:

  • 8110, 8130, 8310, 8330, 8350i, 8800, 8820, 8830, 8900, 9000 with activated internal GPS.
  • 8100, 8120, 8220, 8300, 8320 with external Bluetooth GPS receiver.

    • GPS Requirements:

  • Built-in GPS receiver (via JSR-179 location API). or
  • External Bluetooth GPS receiver. Any Bluetooth GPS receiver should work

    • [via: Skylab Mobile Systems]

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    Software Alert: A Free Version Of vPost Now Available

    By Susan C on May 04, 2009 in BlackBerry, Downloads, Random News, Software.

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    Mauricio E.T.  noticed that vPost has posted a new free version of their application through BlackBerry App World. Well, I took a look in the BlackBerry App World and this is what I found. It’s the basic personal use of Vayyoo, Inc’s vPost version 2.0.0.79. Now for those of you out there who aren’t familiar with vPost, it’s a very useful application. The application is published by Vayyoo, Inc. It allows you to send multimedia files by email, which include notes, pictures, video, and voice recordings all in one email and includes Geo-tag and GPS. It’s really impressive to send emails to friends and coworkers from events live and let them share and even see the location. The free version has a 1 MB size limit, which is still configurable in Premium Edition.

    The Premium vPost edition has exclusive features, ease of use, and more data capacity. The Premium version is 2.1.0.85.  If you are interested in the Premium version which is priced at $9.99, you can find it here.

    Minimum requirements are os 4.5, 4.6, 4.7

    Compatible handsets are: 8100 (Pearl), 8110 (Pearl), 8120 (Pearl), 8130 (Pearl), 8220 (Pearl Flip), 8300 (Curve), 8310 (Curve), 8320 (Curve), 8330 (Curve), 8350i (Curve), 8800, 8820, 8830, 8900 (Curve), 9000 (Bold), Curve, Pearl, Storm

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    App Alert: Free SocialScope Lite Twitter Client Available

    By Susan C on May 02, 2009 in BlackBerry, Random News, Software.

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    Quick note: It would seem that SocialScope is no longer accepting any new users for the Lite at this point, since the beta application is in alpha and therefore still in progress. In any case, fill out your information and request your invite and they will notify you as soon as they have an account available for you. I’d highly recommend it, it’s worth the wait.

    For the past month or two, I have been part of the closed beta of SocialScope and was able to use the application and compare the client to others. It’s a social network application that integrates Facebook with Twitter. Recently SocialScope released SocialScope Lite. The icon is different and seems more appeasing to the eye as well as there are options the full version had, there does seem to be a more user friendly view to it.

    You might wonder what makes this application so great? Well for one you can add both your Facebook and your Twitter accounts, and set the application to alert you with every status update, and/or when there are status updates on Facebook and replys and Direct Messages from Twitter. There are multiple tabs for each account and groups. You can also Forward as a ReTweet, email, or sms. You can set profile alerts for each type of tweet. You can view profiles, followers, friends, updates, and the options of following and unfollowing. You can see you own profile, and see all current tweets and status updates as they happen. You can also view pictures in the application as well, including those from TwitPic.

    I can honestly say I haven’t had any error issues, the only thing is when I restart my BlackBerry, I’ve had to resign in to my account, but everything else is great. It lets me reply and retweet with ease. I liked it so much, it remains the only Twitter application on my BlackBerry. If you would like to sign up for the SocialScope Lite in beta, click here and request your invite.

    [via: BlackBerry Rocks!]

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    Survey Says….RIM Leads The US Business Industry

    By Susan C on Apr 30, 2009 in BlackBerry, General, Random News, USA.

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    The iPhone’s Develeloper’s Journal just posted the findings of a Report on their site. The Strategy Analytics Wireless Enterprise Strategy Service Report is available and the results are in. RIM is leading in the business industry with the smart phone market share at 37% in all sizes of US businesses, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform is following behind in second with 26%. According to the survey, RIM customers were less willing to change their handset than other users on other platforms.

    Some of the companies surveyed were Verizon and AT&T who carry most of the business subscriptions, AT&T are just a bit ahead in large enterprises (companies with 1000+), and Verizon showed deeper numbers along small companies (under 100). Employees of large enterprises showed to be the most loyal BlackBerry users. In the phones surveyed they also included Symbian, Google Android, and Apple’s iPhone, but not one of those phones were in serious running for the competition of US Business use.

    [via BlackBerry News Desk & iPhone Developer's Journal]

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    Announcing Coveroo in Color Too!!!!

    By Susan C on Apr 30, 2009 in Accessories, BlackBerry, Random News.

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    Coveroo is a very unique back cover for your phone. It replaces your back cover of your BlackBerry with unique custom artwork from your favorite movie, band, tv show, sports team, or even your own artwork that you can submit. You pop on the new Coveroo just as easily as your present back cover. They can be personalized with the artwork or text you choose with high quality laser engraving or the new HighColor process. The HighColor process is an industry first as it brings detailed pictures to your phone with over 60,000 colors that will not fade, they will not rub off, and they definitely won’t peel.  They cannot be matched in quality and design and are a fashion statement because of that, and they cannot be matched for look alikes as there are no other device accessory anywhere like it. Well now they are including licensed artwork of Marvel Entertainment, Inc and The National Basketball Association to their line of products, in HighColor even. Prices rang from $9.95 to $59.95 depending on your model and design choice. There are others they already have in their line including Jeff Dunham, Garfield, and Marilyn Monroe to name a few. If you would like to learn more about Coveroo, check out their choices, and order one you can do so here. So what does this mean to you? A unique fashion statement that will stand out.

    [via BlackBerryCool & CrackBerry]

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    BlackBerry OS 5.0 Incremental Features in Detail!

    By Susan C on Apr 29, 2009 in BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Random News.

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    I was reading up on some news today when I stumbled across something exciting. Kevin, from CrackBerry, was able to attain documents that explain in detail what the new OS 5.0 contains in features. It’s safe to assume that the newer upcoming phones will be released loaded with the new OS, and be available for the current phones with 4.6 which includes the Bold, The Curve 8900, The Pearl Flip, and the Storm. It’s rumored perhaps the 83xx series as well, but nothing else has been listed or suggested as of yet.

    Out of the features listed are the following: A follow up flag for your emails (with request, color, status, and due) and they will sync flagged with your desktop (BES 5.0), you will be able to manage mail folders on your phone which will include moving, renaming, and deleting them (again, 5.0 BES), the ability to forward an appointment to a third party (BES 5.0), appointment notes with embedded documents can now viewed and downloaded on your device (BES 5.0), a files application to search for local files and remote files on a corporate intranet (5.0 BES), wireless contact synchoronization is going to include multiple Contact Folders, Personal Distribution Lists, contacts that are stored in your public and shared files (BES 5.0), and when viewing PowerPoint you will be able to see transitions and animations.

    By pressing and holding the BlackBerry button will now bring up the Application Switcher, pressing the BlackBerry button once will bring up the menu and pressing it twice will bring the default menu action.  There will be new homescreen options which will include settings of set the download folder, set the wallpaper, set the theme, and reset Icon arrangement. Included now are Sticky dates in message list so as you scroll through messages the date will stay at the top, Conference Call Integration in Appointment details which means that the conference call details can be a calendar appointment with the information for both the moderator and participant and will need to be entered by CCM (for the Moderator) and CCP (for the Participant), there will be updated standard and premium versions of Documents To Go by Data Viz (v1.006 will preloaded and ready to upgraded by the user), there will be better application management alerting the user to the memory running low and what applications can be removed that aren’t used frequently, BIS Thick Email Client will be a java application with more integrated experience and will list the popular mail service providers you can choose from. You will have the ability to create, edit and delete mail filters and your signatures right on your own device, you will be able to resize a photo when sending, you will be able to see the progress of an email upload with the Email Upload Progress Indicator. A Device Boot screen will display the word BlackBerry and be more appeasing to the eye. you’ll be able to enable event sounds which includes Device On, Device Off, Cable Connected, Cable Disconnected, Full Battery Charge and Battery Near Depletion. You will be able to set your ringtone from your Phone Dialing Screen or Device Options, show the last row in options as a half height row so the user can see Advanced Options is there below, you will see the name of the Profile in the Title so you will know what profile you are editing. There will be more simplified configuration options for sound and profiles. Now all profiles except Normal and All Alerts Off can be renamed.  All Profiles except for Normal, All Alerts Off, and Vibrate can be deleted.

    Map enhancements include even better panning and zooming, making it much faster. A new top layer screen will allow you to search for various layers of information such as points of interests and locations, address search will handle queries much more intelligently and will support North America and Western Europe in comparison to the current Canada, UK, and USA. There will be photo geotagging on maps, and they will appear as thumbnails on layers on the map.

    In the browser will be bookmarks including a Single Branded Carrier Bookmark. And of course expect a richer browsing experience, Gears Support, and additional Multimedia Enhancements, MicroSD cards and allowing MicroSD Smart Cards for stronger security. There are other features and details, to read more about them go here.

    [via CrackBerry]

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    How Do I Love Thee? A New App Measures Your BlackBerry Addiction

    By Susan C on Apr 28, 2009 in BlackBerry, Downloads, Random News, Software.

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    There’s a new beta that has come to the BlackBerry nation, and that is “I Love Blackberry” by EarlySail. The app can actually keep track of your hours and minutes you spend on your BlackBerry, and you can customize your work time so it can measure how much time you spend at work on it. It even checks for updates itself. Have you ever wondered how much time you truly spend on emails, texting, the BlackBerry messenger, viigo, games, all those little guilty pleasures we have at our hands? Well this app is the answer to it all. The best part? It’s free. I downloaded it out of curiousity, just to see what it says. I”m hoping it doesn’t say I need to go to rehab or anything close. The current version allows you to share your results with one friend via email at a time, the next generation will have the ability to share with friends and associates. I could see where this would be fun to share with your friends and family and see who’s the worse and least addicted. If anyone else has installed this or is going to install, please keep me posted and I will share and compare my results. Too bad there’s not varying degrees of use such as the fan, obsessive, addict, hopeless even. It might make it a little more humorous.

    For the description and download click here.

    Source: [via: BerryReview.com]

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