We have been keeping you up to date on RIM’s BBM Generation Protégé Challenge that started in October of 2011. It gave young people a chance to meet and work with some top “Celebrity Influencers” in six different categories. They went through a few rounds of challenges and now RIM [...]

Tom was kind enough to let me know that Verizon has finally put up OS 7.1.0.163 desktop install files for the BlackBerry Bold 9930 & Torch 9850 on their website. Many people already upgraded to this version via wireless update or other methods but there is a place for desktop install [...]

If you wanted to catch up on what happened in Vegas for BlackBerry and RIM you can check out a new video RIM posted. It is titled “What happened in Vegas: BlackBerry at CES 2012” and does a fun job of boiling down the highlights of CES into a little over a [...]

This week RIM rolled out a new version 6.1 of BlackBerry Messenger along with an update to BlackBerry Traffic anytime now. One of the nice improvements to BBM was animated avatars but RIM did not give much guidance on what the optimal settings are for BBM at launch. They have thankfully followed up with [...]

Nobex Radio updated their hugely popular app this week to v3.3.14 from the previous version 3.0.6. I have no idea what is new in this version but I have reached out to Nobex and have not heard back. Scott let us know about the update but he also did not notice anything [...]

The JoeMobi team is on a roll with a sweet update to their WordPress BlackBerry App. We have just released our first public beta of our JoeMobi app which allows you to read BerryReview from your BlackBerry smartphone. We also have a PlayBook version coming soon (PlayBook OS 2.0) if all goes [...]

Congrats to the QNX auto team and the PlayBook OS developers. CNET was really impressed with the new QNX Car 2 Platform which we told you previously was shortlisted for their Best of CES award. Paul pointed out that the Car 2 platform won the CNET [...]

RIM introduced a slick new feature in BBM 6.1 that was just released. It allows you to have animated BBM avatars (aka profile pictures). These avatars are GIF files but they need to follow certain specs. Jay pointed out to me that there is already a solid source of animated BBM avatars [...]

If there is one thing I am hoping carriers do in 2012 it is proper shared data plans. It is starting to get ridiculous where I have three smartphones and a data card on a family plan and each one now has a separate data bucket. Each smartphone has 2GB and the data card [...]

RIM officially released v2.0 of their BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app in mid-December and now Doni let us know that they have released a new beta in the Beta Zone. The new v3.0 is available to Beta Zone members in North America and the UK. It includes a few new features such [...]