Heads up, foursquare addicts, we have some news to report. Just five days after the alpha went live, foursquare for BlackBerry 3.0 has exited the testing stage and is now ready for public consumption. While it lacks the BBM integration found in the alpha, there are still plenty of other things to get excited about, [...]

With rumors of a RIM-built Apple TV competitor circulating, it’s pretty clear that the BlackBerry maker is preparing to make a big push with its multimedia support. So it comes as no surprise that a new rumor has made its rounds which would see the release of a music sharing service. Details are scarce, but it [...]

BlackBerry Messenger and collecting foursquare badges — they’re both incredibly addictive and time-consuming pastimes. But now they don’t have to be done separately, as an alpha of foursquare for BlackBerry 3.0 has been released which features support for BBM. Other updates to v3.0 include the inclusion of Explore, and a few minor tweaks to the UI. If [...]

RIM wants to know how to make their already popular BBM IM client even better; so much so that they’re throwing a BBM Hackathon event in New York City, August 11-12th 2011. The goal of the event is to help developers integrate the BBM social platform into their apps, thus widening the audience and furthering [...]

It comes as no surprise that when most people hear the name “Enflick” they have no idea who they are or the impact they’ve had on the mobile space. Almost two years ago, when the instant messenger craze was still in its infancy, a small Waterloo based start-up called Enflick saw a void with the [...]

iMessage, was unveiled earlier this week in the WWDC keynote – it sports many of the features that Blackberry Messenger does, which includes notification when someone has received and read a message you sent, among other things. “iMessage” might look like a ploy to cut into BBM service’s dominance but it seems to have worked [...]

I did up an editorial yesterday stating my thoughts on the new battle of the IM’s between Apple’s iMessage and RIM’s BBM as I patiently downloaded - and updated - my iPhone to the latest and greatest iOS5 software. At that time, I was going solely based on assumptions and vicarious reads of others’ hands-on [...]

When RIM launched their proprietary BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) instant messaging application, it was nothing more than a convenient, secure way for business men around the office to keep in touch with each other using their monthly allotted data plan to chat without the annoyance of filling their already saturated email inbox’s with short sentences as well as [...]

  CellGuru is, as you know, down at the BlackBerry World Conference in Orlando, Florida, and we have news coming in from him in regard to the upcoming version of BlackBerry Messenger (aka BBM). The new version of BBM, “BlackBerry Messenger 6″ will launch on the upcoming BlackBerry 7 OS (BB7 OS) devices such as [...]

  It’s nothing new that BBM has become a staple for BlackBerry, nor is it a bold statement to say that BBM — or any other instant messaging app around, for that matter — has single handedly made text messaging not only irrelevant, but also not the cash-cow for carriers that it used to be. [...]