If you’re an Android developer, the PlayBook and BBX is an incredible opportunity to get more downloads/purchases. Estimates put the PlayBook sales around 700,000+ and it’s arguably a better platform to develop for as its user base is known to be more affluent and spend more on apps. There are a couple ways you can [...]

Lazaridis took the stage to kick off DevCon with a keynote that started off talking about the growth of the platform. He talked about the increase in subscriber base, BBM users and the benefits of being a developer for the BlackBerry platform. Some of the numbers include 70 million subscribers, 25 million downloads of BBM [...]

TheGrid is a new Premium theme by Monster Mobile Design that features quick access to all your favorite apps. Inspired by Fusion Garage’s Grid OS look, TheGrid theme has custom slots to prominently display your apps so you won’t have to visit the menu to quickly launch your favorite apps.

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The Taiwanese animation studio NMA does a good job of making outrageously-exaggerated videos of relatively minor incidents in Western media and the recent BlackBerry outage is no exception. At one point, the video suggests that Google might have had something to do with the outage, just in case you had any doubt these videos were [...]

There has been a long-standing issue with app discovery and that it has been relegated to some very basic features such as carousels/lists and categories. There are so many more effective ways that a person can discover an app and word-of-mouth is one of them. The problem is that word-of-mouth is difficult to track as [...]

Fixmo has updated their extensive suite of BlackBerry utilities and is offering a discounted price of $7.99 down from $14.99 for a limited time. The update is free for Fixmo 2.0 users and sports a number of new features, including performance optimizations, BlackBerry 7 support and the ability to remove any of the 18 features [...]

Foursquare is still going strong and updating the BlackBerry client with more features to keep you coming back. The most recent update features a notification tray that notifies you of activity in the system that you may want to know about. The biggest selling point for foursquare is deals and it’s still going to be [...]

We like to keep our eyes on the three major smartphone and tablet platforms to see what’s happening, and also, to see what their users like to do with their devices. Let’s see what’s new and what’s hot on iOS, Android, and BlackBerry this week.

iOS

The Oregon Trail (iPad)

Who remembers playing this game on an [...]

If you’ve just purchased your very first BlackBerry, you’re probably wondering what the best, most essential apps are. With thousands and thousands of apps in BlackBerry’s App World, having a list of the essentials just makes everything a little easier. Whether you’re looking for social networking apps, utility apps, or something in between, we’ve got [...]

Today at 10AM EST, RIM’s Co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, as well as David Yach, the CTO of RIM, were on a call to talk about the recent BlackBerry outage and what happened. It’s important to note that RIM has had great track record with uptime and while this particular outage has been much [...]