If you’re reliant on your BlackBerry as most of us are, you surely felt the loneliness of the outtage. BBM, email, and pins were down with service for the most part. Twitter was flying with tweets about the outtage, and hopes that it would resume. Finally between two and three am Mountain Time, the service was restored.

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Wow, BlackBerry Messenger has gone through yet another update once again. Most of us would have noticed if it hadn’t been for the outtage most of us experienced. First .33, then .55, .56, and now .57. I’m not sure what’s new but as soon as BIS service is restored, you can bet I’ll be downloading it.

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The Exchange My Mail team just let me know that they’ve introduced BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Google Apps. This means that companies who currently use Google Apps for their domains can now take advantage of most BES functions. This new service from Exchange My Mail costs about $9.99/month (plus a $50 setup fee), and you are required to have BES compatibility with your carrier.

You can find full details of this new service on Exchange My Mail’s website here. Click read more to see the full functions offered with this new service.

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That’s right folks, RIM has just officially released a new update for BlackBerry Messenger 5.0. Anyone running a BlackBerry with OS 4.7 or higher should be able to grab this update by pointing your BlackBerry browser to blackberry.com/messenger or by visiting BlackBerry App World. I just installed it (on my Bold 9700) and so far haven’t noticed any major changes from the previously leaked versions, but I’ll let you all know what I find. Enjoy!

Thanks to Jordan for sending me the tip!

We’ve been hearing rumors of Twitter for BlackBerry, an official app from RIM is coming soon. If you take a look at the picture above you will notice it says Twitter for BlackBerry, which means that someone would there has a copy of RIM’s un-released Twitter app, and is fully testing it. We imagine the application is pretty light weight app for BlackBerry, but who knows until we actually see it. Apparently if you clicked on the application name “Twitter for BlackBerry” it actually takes you to blackberry.com/twitter, however nothing but a simple 404 error is there for now. I’ve been hearing rumors that RIM plans to launch it early next year, and that seems to be on par with everyone else. Stay tuned we’re trying to dig up some more info.

[via CrackBerry]

Prism Technologies LLC filed a complaint that could lead to an import ban on our beloved BlackBerry devices. According to Enterprise Security Today, the Nebraskan company filed a lawsuit in Nebraska against RIM and also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission last Wednesday. The very same company recently settled a patent infringement suit 3 months ago with Microsoft.

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If you ever saw RIM’s corporate website before you would have noticed it was pretty boring. Well looks like RIM has kept going with their dark theme, and redesigned RIM.com their corporate homepage. The new RIM website no longer has the white and blue its gray and black primarily. The overall design is very similar to the BlackBerry.com design, which looks awesome. So if you get a minute stop over at RIM.com and check out their new design… It gets an A from me.

RIM has released the BlackBerry Desktop Manager updated version. To update you can go to the BlackBerry website here, or you can open your BlackBerry Desktop Manager, go to Options /Check For Updates, and check. It will let you know to close your current Desktop Manager, and you’re on the way. This update didn’t take long to install either.

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A new rumor is floating around the internet about two new version of BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service), which supposedly will launch early 2010.The first would be version 3.0 which will include enhanced updates for Google Synchronization, which is said to be launching in March 2010 (but we all know how RIM likes to be late). Shortly followed after that would be BIS version 3.1 which would bring even more new synchronization features including: Google Calendar, Hotmail Address Book, and Yahoo! Address Book syncing.

BIS 3.0 (March 2010):

• Improved the Gmail plugin:
  • Synchronization deleted messages, read / unread and sent between the box and your own Gmail (so far worked only in the opposite direction)
  • The ability to add and remove labels from your device

BIS 3.1 (Soon after):

• Synchronize Google Calendar
• Synchronize your address book from Hotmail account
• Synchronize your address book from Yahoo

Yahoo mailbox will cause an automatic download of Yahoo messenger on the device

[via BerryReview, BBLeaks]

I apologize to everyone for the slow coverage of the BlackBerry Developers Conference this week. One cool thing that was announced at BB DevCon 2009 was Open GL ES coming to BlackBerry smartphones. This will allow developers to develop 3D games and graphics for BlackBerry, plus develop new interfaces for themes with the new BlackBerry Theme Studio. Open GL ES will be supported on several devices running OS 5.0, including the new Storm2, and Curve 8530. Skip on over to the full press release for complete details…

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