There has been plenty of talk lately of the Blackberry Bold Torch 9800 Slider, the first device from Waterloo to not only have both touch screen and QWERTY keyboard, but also run their now infamous Blackberry6 OS. As of yet nothing has been officially acknowledged by either RIM or any carriers, but as with almost [...]

RIM’s Annual General Meeting is mainly for shareholders; to let them know how RIM has been growing and its plans for future growth. I followed Matt Hartley’s live coverage on financialpost.com to see exactly what was said. The first keynote speaker was Jim Balsillie who basically touted RIM’s recent stats but did not announce any [...]

How would you like to get more life out of your precious BlackBerry battery? There are many quick and easy adjustments you can make to ensure your battery lasts longer throughout the day. Here is a detailed list of useful tips.

I’ve been using Viigo daily since it was in its early stages; it has to be well over 2 years now. Since that time, Viigo has been steadily updated, adding new features and performance enhancements, until 9 or 10 months ago when the updates stopped. The app is rock solid and there is definitely nothing wrong with it, but we [...]

Research in Motion (RIM) just posted another BlackBerry 6 video which gives us a better look at the upcoming OS. Luckily unlike the last video, this one has much less dancing and booty checking and instead shows the interface floating in space, blazing through features. Things are looking pretty good but remember, this is just [...]

Finally, the elusive WebKit browser can be seen in action. WillyBoy6 at Driphter.com has posted a video of the WebKit browser running on his 9800, showing the pinch zoom feature as well as tabbed browsing! The browser is very responsive and renders fairly quickly, but is still in its early stages. It’s lacking flash [...]

WordPress for BlackBerry has been updated to version 1.3 and includes some nice new features, along with support for many different languages. I’ve been playing around with v1.3 and am very happy with the update. It’s good to see that new and useful features have been frequently added to the app. If you’re a WordPress user and BlackBerry [...]

While blatantly copying someone else’s amazing work is definitely a faux pas, I couldn’t pass up the chance to pass along something I found to be brilliant. Marco Arment, developer of the fabulous Instapaper application and employee at Tumblr, wrote a fantastic article about being great from day one. Basically, Marco suggests that Apple makes [...]

Twitter for BlackBerry was leaked to the masses back in February, then entered into Beta Zone about a month later, and then became available in the Beta Zone Test Center shortly thereafter. Twitter for BlackBerry is now coming out of beta. v1.0.0.45 will start rolling out tonight and should be fully available at some point tomorrow. It [...]

I make many business calls from my BlackBerry and I constantly find myself using ‘Dial by name directories’. Once in a while I also run into a situation where I would like to type a phone number that consists of letters. This is all easily doable on a BlackBerry but there are many people who [...]