All the stories tagged with: blackberry
BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 supports 2D barcodes
07/21/2009, 2D barcodes (also known as QR Code in Japan) are barcodes that can store a relatively large quantity of text (4096 characters or so). They can be used for anything: business cards, web URLs and so on… the video in [...]
BlackBerry Desktop Software Heading For Mac
07/20/2009, Mac users will be pleased as punch to know that the BlackBerry Desktop Software is coming their way, where key features will include :- Sync your iTunes playlists, calendars, contacts, notes and tasks Add/Remove applications Update your device when new [...]
Market share doesn’t mean much
07/20/2009, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson – that’s the market share classification that most people use to rank handset makers. However, people overlook profitability, The key metric in a mature business like cellphones. While Nokia still commands 60% of the industry’s [...]
BlackBerry OS 5.0 Gets Tabbed Browsing
07/15/2009, Ever since tabbed browsing came out for desktop browsers, life has been much easier considering you no longer need to open up a slew of windows on your computer, and RIM aims to introduce a similar feature in their upcoming [...]
Google Voice For Android And BlackBerry
07/15/2009, Google has just rolled out a mobile edition of Google Voice for Android and BlackBerry handsets, where this application makes outbound calling on this unified phone service a snap, since it is capable of sending both calls and text messages [...]
BlackBerry To Create A ‘Social Network’
07/13/2009, BlackBerry is said to launch its own social network tomorrow. First I’m not sure why that thing on the screenshot would be called a social network – it looks like a forum. Apparently, users are said to be able to [...]
Shazam Available for BlackBerry
07/13/2009, Just yesterday we were testing Shazam on an iPhone, in a noisy environment… now Blackberry users can get Shazam to recognize a song and point them to a place to buy it. If you have never heard of Shazam, it listens [...]
Sprint Gearing Up Inferno And Red Curve
07/10/2009, Sprint looks set to release a couple of handsets – the new “Inferno” 8330 and the Red Curve 8350i. While the BlackBerry Tour will be arriving from Sprint within the next few days, it would make us wonder whether there [...]
BlackBerry Magnum Appears
07/10/2009, The BlackBerry Magnum has been bandied about since April, although here we are with a proper image of it online. The Magnum is touted to be the first smartphone from RIM that comes with a hardware QWERTY keyboard alongside a [...]
RIM Working On a Better GMail Integration
07/06/2009, Microsoft Exchange is by far the best email option for Blackberry these days, but as RIM (research In Motion) wants to get deeper into the consumer market, there’s no chance that most people would sign up for a hosted exchange [...]
Xing European Business Network on BlackBerry
07/02/2009, Xing is the Linked In of Europe and today it launches its free blackberry application. The 7 million Xing members will be able to sync specific Xing contact data with their address book on their Blackberry devices, reply to Xing [...]
Sprint BlackBerry Tour Available On July 12th
07/01/2009, We’ve known for a while that the BlackBerry Tour would be available at Sprint for $199 (w/ 2yr contract), but the date is now official: it’s July 12. It’s actually the same offer (and the same day) then what Verizon [...]
BlackBerry Curve 8520 Gets FCC Approval
06/30/2009, The FCC has already approved the BlackBerry Curve 8520 for its debut on T-Mobile next month, so it would be interesting to see where consumers will vote with their wallets – will they look towards the recently announced Tour, or [...]
