Potential tablet buyers that have been keeping an eye on PlayBook pricing in the hopes of a reduction are in luck starting today, as Walmart, Best Buy, and Future Shop all weigh in with sales on RIM’s tablet. Wal-Mart is leading the pack, offering the 16GB model for only $249, fully half off the MSRP. [...]

Rogers employees are getting a sweet deal on the PlayBook offered to them, as employee pricing got sent out today. Rogers employees can snag a 16GB model for only $249, 32GB model for $349, or a 64 GB for only $399. That’s a price cut of 50% on the 16GB model, and on top of [...]

We got an email on the tip line this morning, giving us a heads up that BlackBerry Bridge has been updated again, this time to version 1.0.6.5. No changelog has been posted with this update, so we aren’t really sure at this time what improvements have been made. If you’re rocking a BlackBerry and a [...]

I will be completely honest when I say that I dream of owning a PlayBook, Galaxy Tab, or iPad, the higher calibre boys on the tablet team, but budget constraints aren’t necessarily helpful in that regard. Bills, kids, and owning a home come before snagging the latest and greatest, so there isn’t much left in [...]

If you’re itching to get your hands on a Bold 9900, but aren’t quite ready to shell out $149.99 worth of your hard earned dollars to get one from Rogers, Future Shop has just discounted the device to $99.99 on a three-year contract. If you’re shopping over at Best Buy, picking yourself a PlayBook while [...]

For those interested in grabbing a PlayBook, Best Buy has just put them on sale, offering the 16GB for $449.99, 32GB and 64GB for $549.99. That’s $150 off the 64GB, well worth the upgrade if you have the cash for it. The sale runs from now through September 5th, in store and online. If you’ve [...]

Rogers is running a great little promo from now until September, offering an additional $100 off on the three year commitment price of the Bold 9900, Torch 9810, and the Playbook, bringing the cost down to $99 for the devices for those looking to snag one cheap. Sadly, this appears to only apply to new [...]

A couple of rumours coming down the tubes today from Bloomberg, reporting that a PlayBook OS update bringing a native email client is scheduled for a September release, and that future QNX-based BlackBerry devices will have Android compatibility. Since the PlayBook’s launch, users wanting to access their mail on the tablet have needed to bridge [...]

I caught a tweet today from @young_adam tipping me off to a blog post from the RIM development team. It seems the Native Development Kit for the PlayBook is now being brought into a closed beta, and developers are being asked to apply to become a part of it. The applications are processed on a [...]

One of my biggest disappointments when I got my PlayBook was the lack of an eReader application. I’m an avid user of the Kindle app for BlackBerry on my 9800, but too many years spent staring at computer screens and smartphones have degraded my eyesight a tad. One of the things I was most excited [...]