On Monday, Research in Motion unveiled its newest device, the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630, a 3G-enabled world phone that will be available from both Sprint and Verizon Wireless later this summer. In addition, the smartphone will be sold in Canada through Bell Mobility and Telus.
The news isn’t a complete surprise. Also known as the BlackBerry [...]

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Matt Mullenweg is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool. It’s also the software powering BlackBerryCool.com.

At WordCamp in San Francisco, Matt gave his “State of the Word” presentation where he said a“new Blackberry App [will] [...]

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Your BlackBerry can be used in a wide variety of ways for interacting with social media and networks. One of these ways is via email. There are several sites out there that allow you to send media to them via email, and have that media pushed to your facebook and social networks. I’ve taken the [...]

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Ever wondered how Research In Motion (RIM)
decided on such a fruity name for its handheld devices?
Back in 2001, RIM apparently hired a
consultancy called Lexicon Branding to find a fitting title for its wireless
messaging devices. Understandably, RIM had been toying with various names that
included and/or played on the word “e-mail.” But after Lexicon
convinced the company [...]

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It’s every gadget lover’s nightmare and, on Wednesday, it became my reality.
My BlackBerry went for an ever-so-brief tour of CNET’s plumbing facilities. I’m not sure how it ended up exactly where it did, but suffice it to say, it did. And, to answer the question before you ask, it was a clean bowl.

I pulled it [...]

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Smartphones grew to dominate a larger portion of the mobile device pie in the first quarter of 2009, driven largely by touch-screens, shows new data from Gartner. Nokia led in sales to users, followed by BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Apple with its iPhone and HTC.
Smartphones are on the rise, according to new data from Gartner, [...]

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So you just got a new BlackBerry but don’t know what applications to install? Look no further. We have gathered 40 of the best free BlackBerry apps available anywhere and posted them below in alphabetical order. Click on the links to open the app’s download site.
Amazon Shopping Application – This app lets you shop [...]

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Word on the Skype Community Forum has it that a closed beta is in full swing, but nary a single detail has been made available to us. Well, we do know that such whisperings only bode well for the BlackBerry community as we could be looking at Skype for BlackBerry someday down the road, although [...]

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Perhaps you guys know this TV Series: The Unit. It is an American action TV series about a special forces unit within the U.S. Army which reports only to the President. Since the last season (we are now in season 4) I noticed them to use BlackBerry devices. The last episode I watched is called [...]

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