With his keynote well underway, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has already made many-a-fanboy’s smile. He has already announced the forthcoming new OS entitled BBX, which will allow devices to run their ever-so-necessary new QNX platform, and now he has updated us all on just how well their BlackBerry App World is actually doing. As for the [...]

We might be a little bit late to report this, but we figure now is as good a time as any to report that an update for BlackBerry Bridge — v1.0.4.9 — is awaiting you in App World. We’d be lying if we said we knew exactly what has changed since the release of v1.0.0.93, [...]

Just a quick heads up to all of you BlackBerry users who rely upon WhatsApp Messenger, as an update for the the popular cross-platform messaging application is now available in BlackBerry App World. Apart from various bug fixes, the update allows the app to take advantage of BlackBerry OS’s drop down notification bar. [via App [...]

On the day of a very contentious Annual General Meeting, RIM revealed that BlackBerry App World recently served up its one billionth download. The exact time the download occurred and the name of the application were not disclosed. App World, which launched in April of 2009, is available in over 100 countries and sees an average of 3-million [...]

Great news for PlayBook owners who have a BlackBerry smartphone from AT&T, as it was announced today that BlackBerry Bridge has been approved for use on AT&T. Available for free through BlackBerry App World, BlackBerry Bridge is a useful application which allows BlackBerry smartphone owners to mirror all of their calendars, contacts, messages, and more [...]

A few hours ago Foursquare released a new version of their app in BlackBerry App World. They tweeted about the release of the new version - 1.9.97 - at 11 AM (Toronto time) this morning. As they wrote in the tweet above and in the release notes on the screenshot below, the new version of [...]

Earlier this week in my post announcing inside information about updates and features coming soon to the Yelp for BlackBerry I also mentioned one problem with the app’s description in App World: “Another issue which I had and which confused me quite a bit when I first started using the app was that it clearly [...]

Yelp, the popular social networking, user review, and local search web site has apps for BlackBerry as well as iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone 7, and the Palm Pre. I have used the BlackBerry app for a bit and much as I like the reviews available on Yelp I have always found the BlackBerry app [...]

OK, this totally caught me by surprise and I do not know how I missed it before. Seems last summer, ya I really missed the boat on this one, Gowalla released a beta then a full version of their app for BlackBerry devices. The latest version of the app, version 1.24.0, was released March 10, 2025 [...]

Today, BlackBerry announced on their blog the official launch of their new Twitter client which was only available in the Beta Zone until now. The new version of Twitter for BlackBerry includes new features for the app such as adding locations to your tweets and Push @Mentions (no other widely available BlackBerry Twitter app does [...]