Prem Watsa “The Warren Buffett of Canada” Doubles Stake in RIM
Breaking news this morning has new RIM board member Prem Watsa increasing his stake in RIM to 5.12%. Prem Watsa is the CEO of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. Mr. Watsa, Fairfax, and other companies related to them bought 6,499,500 shares of RIM on Wednesday and an additional 7,550,700 on Thursday, according to filings with U.S….
Test out your inner Audiophile with Beat The Intro
Beat The Intro is a great new free game for your BlackBerry smartphone. You need to guess the song as fast as you can after listening to the clip. It also has BBM integration, challenge all your friends and compete for the highest score. Built in is access to the 7Digital music store, in case…
UberSocial Gets Another Small Update to v1.308 to Fix Connection Bugs
AnV let us know that UberSocial has pushed out another update to their popular Twitter client. This one also brings some small hotfixes like they did earlier this month to v1.304. The change log for this version is: Loss of 3G and/or BIS connection after starting UberSocial Use of the carrier data plan even though…
NHL Players Association Launches New PlayBook Themed Campaign With RIM
When I first heard of this it immediately brought to mind the fact that Polar Mobile has signed a deal with the NHL players association for mobile apps in December. Hell RIM signed a deal with Polar back in March of last year for 100 PlayBook apps that we haven’t seen yet. Now Bla1ze @CrackBerry…
64GB BlackBerry PlayBook From Shop BlackBerry Only $239.20 With 20% Off Coupon!
Update: We are getting reports that ShopBlackBerry has now pulled the coupon code. Hopefully we will score another one soon! That was a pretty sweet deal for a 64GB model. The deals keep on coming for the BlackBerry PlayBook. My buddy from Tabletaholic let me know that RIM has a coupon code for the BlackBerry…
Contest: Win 1 of 20 copies of XAppLock Unlimited
Last month BerrySet was nice enough to let use do a giveaway for their great weather app XWeather. With the success of that giveaway, they have been kind enough to allow us to giveaway 20 copies of XAppLock Unlimited. Read on for more details!
RIM Details Their Roadmap for Code Signing – Still Seems Relatively Useless
I have always had a huge issue with code signing for BlackBerry applications. For almost a decade code signing has been a hugely frustrating and annoying barrier to entry for new BlackBerry developers while providing marginal security improvements. Hell it used to cost $200 for code signing keys. As far as I have been…
BlackBerry DevCon Europe is Sold Out!
That was a bit unexpected. RIM has been pushing hard to sign up developers for BlackBerry DevCon Europe in Amsterdam from February 7-8th. They have been offering aggressive discounts and incentives but I was surprised when JoDo let me know that is is now SOLD OUT! RIM confirmed as much on their DevCon Website saying…
New Porsche Design P’9531 Coming – Possibly CDMA Model?
There was an interesting new addition to the product line in the newly leaked 2012 BlackBerry product roadmap. It lists a Porsche Design P’9531 instead of the previous P’9981 that has already been released in Porsche stores. There is some speculation that this new model may be a CDMA version of the previous P’9981…
BlackBerry PlayBook 3G+ Specs
The latest leaked road map shows the specs for the upcoming 7” PlayBook with HSPA+ but no mention of an LTE or 10” version. The main differences with the PlayBook is that it will support carrier network not just Wi-Fi. It is interesting to see RIM is calling it 3G+ on this slide not 4G…
RIM Working on Simpler BlackBerry Curve 9220 & Curve 9320
According to the leaked roadmap we have been scouring this morning RIM is working on two more devices in what they call their “Onboarding” category. These models are intended to introduce feature phone users to smartphones with simpler devices. I am not quite sure what is wrong with the BlackBerry 9350/9360/9370 line but RIM calls…
RIM’s 2012 Road Map Includes 3G PlayBook, Curve and More
RIM has a tough road ahead with the transition to BB10 devices and the latest leak shows RIM is not planning on leaving the current BlackBerry OS just yet. The road map leaked by BGR shows several low end devices with OS BB7.1 launching right around the BlackBerry World event. These BB7.1 devices are entry…
