There’s a lot of talk amongst developers about “Push” – what it is and why it’s relevant. Today, Research In Motion has made our new BlackBerry® Push Service available to developers and I want to use this as an opportunity to really walk through what BlackBerry push is, and how it can add value that you [...]

Much like Sensobi Contacts (which is cheaper, at $4.99) before it, Xobni has been released for Blackberry smartphones. The point of it all is to make your contact list easier to navigate. How many extraneous contacts do you have in your list? 100? 200? Xobni makes profiles of all your contacts and lists relevant statistics, [...]

Opera, the company behind the multi-platform browser, has released a new version of Opera Mini for all its Java-enabled smartphones, and by consequence, a new version for Blackberry’s. Now out of beta, version 5 has the standard Speed Dial homescreen, tabbed browsing and proxy server that the previous beta did, with a few bug fixes [...]

Sydney, Australia - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry® Storm2™ smartphone for customers in Australia and New Zealand. The second generation of RIM’s innovative and award-winning touch-screen smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm2 significantly improves the BlackBerry® touch-screen platform with new technology and new features to let customers stay easily connected [...]

Here we go for the first BlackBerry Roundup! 9650 Leak Not only do all 5 of you with a 9650 get a new OS (5.0.0.533), but it also comes with the “Bold 9650 User Guide.” So I guess it’s official; the Tour2 is now the Bold 9650…until RIM changes it again. Download 5.0.0.533 here Download [...]

According to comScore MobiLens research, which covered mobile handset usage between October 2009 and January 2010, RIM owns the smartphone market, with 43% market share, up 1.7% from three months earlier. RIM was the only company to gain significantly in total handset numbers, too, up 1.4% to 7.8% share, and that is overall phone numbers, [...]

Tether, the popular software for sharing your phone’s data connections with your laptop, is celebrating their first year in business, and what a year it’s been. From not existing to being used by over 110,000 BlackBerrys, the launch of Mac and Bluetooth versions, the Android Beta software winning the Innovacorp I3 contest! So what’s Tether [...]

BlackBerry App World has been updated to 1.1.0.33. No change log as of yet so it’s anyone’s guess what was fixed – maybe it will quit deleting itself from people’s phones now. Either way, it gives me the chance to download BB App World FROM BB App World! (sorry in advance if I tear a [...]

It seems as though the big BIS 3.0 upgrade we non BES users have been so patiently waiting for is finally here. Berryreview is reporting that our friends overseas in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will be getting their upgrade this weekend on March 14th followed not too long afterward by North America (about [...]

BerryWeather, my preferred BB weather app, was updated last night/this morning to 2.2.01. Like most updates, this one carries your general bug fixes, but the fun doesn’t end there! In addition to Ultimate Lock integration (which was also updated), Bellshare has decided to open up use of their weather app to developers. This is big [...]