Tag: "2008"

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Weekly Sync: BlackBerry News for Week 43, 2008

By James on Oct 26, 2008 in Weekly Sync.

It was a little bit of a quieter week on the BlackBerry side. Even though the first ever BlackBerry Developers Conference was in play. RIM did announce several new things such as the BlackBerry Application Center, Web Signals and updated Developer tools. Check out all of this weeks news:

October 20-26, 2008:

- BlackBerry Developer Conference starts October 20th

- Rogers 2009 BlackBerry Lineup revealed

- BlackBerry Storm to feature McAfee Mobile Security trial

- Six new high quailty BlackBerry videos

- T-Mobile Curve 8320 gets OS 4.5 finally

- RIM sends tons of Press Releases – Introduces Application Center, Web Signals and updates Developer tools

- BlackBerry Storm blows into FCC and passes

- AT&T’s San Fran Bold party!

- RIM, AT&T announce BlackBerry Bold finally coming to USA on Nov. 4th

- Live hands-on BlackBerry Storm pics from Developers Conference

- BrickBreaker Touch Screen Edition for Storm

- TELUS gives then takes back Streaming Media (Youtube)

- Review of Flipside MP3 application for BlackBerry

- BlackBerry Premium headphones in stock at BlackBerry Sync Store

And that’s what went on for this week. Stay tuned for another exciting week in the BlackBerry world!

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BB Dev Conf: Day 2 brings tons of press releases

By James on Oct 21, 2008 in BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Developer Conf 08', RIM, RIM Press Release.

Being day two of RIM’s first ever Developer Conference brought lots of press releases. RIM introduced the Application Center similar to Apple and Google’s App stores. This will allow developers to sell applications and receive payments via Paypal. The App Center wasn’t a very big surprise after it was leaked weeks ago.

Check out all the press releases RIM sent out today: Read More

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Run down of what happend at CTIA Fall 2008

By James on Sep 12, 2008 in BlackBerry, CTIA 2008, RIM, RIM Press Release.

Well CTIA Fall 2008 was huge for RIM this fall. We saw tons of press releases, two new BlackBerry models and new services. Unfortunately no sign of the long awaited BlackBerry Javelin or Storm/Thunder but they should come before the years finished.

Here is a run down of what happend at CTIA Fall 2008 starting off with:

- A Look at RIM’s CTIA Fall 2008 booth

- Introducing the iDEN BlackBerry Curve 8350i for Sprint-Nextel

- Introducing the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220

- Meet the Red colored Pearl Flip 8220

- RIM and TiVo partner up to bring TiVo control on BlackBerry

- RIM and Windows Live Search come to BlackBerry

- MySpace and Ticketmaster also join BlackBerry apps

- Slacker Personal Radio coming to BlackBerry

So overall it was a great success and I’m sure there is more to come before 2008 is done.