The Blackberry Z10 and Q10 have been in the news for the last few days. The company has certainly accomplished a major transformation from an austere device that was almost catered to business world to a more consumer friendly smartphone. While the hardware does not create much WOW factor and neither the OS ...
Research in Motion introduced its next Operating System, the Blackberry OS 10, at the BlackBerry World 2012. RIM new CEO Thorsten Heins gave a preview of the next-generation software on a prototype smartphone called the Dev Alpha, which will serve for development purposes and will not be commercialized. RIM’s new smartphones running the ...
The business oriented platform Blackberry is trying to broaden its user base with a new music subscription-based. The service called BBM Music, which offers 50 free songs for free per month per subscriber and free music listening from BBM Music friends. The service can be activated with an app, which works on ...
I was one of the first to jump on the Blackberry bandwagon, when an employer several years back required all the outside account executives to carry one. I’d never been particularly tech-savvy, but the Blackberry hooked me early on. It wasn’t long before my Blackberry was my constant companion, my personal assistant, and my ...
Last week, due to a hardware glitch in Europe, Blackberry users suffered messaging disruption in a ripple effect across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and finally spread to North America. In a recovery public relation effort, RIM Co-CEO offered his apologies on behalf of his company on YouTube and ...
This week, RIM announced plans to launch 5 new BlackBerry smartphones based on the new BlackBerry 7 Operating System. RIM, in conjunction with carriers and distribution partners around the world, is rolling out two new BlackBerry Bold models 9900 and 9930 and three new BlackBerry Torch models 9810 9850 and 9860. BlackBerry 7 ...
This morning at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer was introduced to announce a new partnership between RIM, the Canadian Blackberry maker and Microsoft. The partnership involves a tied integration of Redmond company decision search engine & map Bing to the Blackberry smartphones, especially to those that run the ...
RIM just officially announced two new touchscreen and front-facing QWERTY smartphones. The Bold 9900 and Bold 9930 are company first smartphones to run BlackBerry OS 7. While carry the same form factor and look, the 9900 is a GSM only phone and the 9930 is a global phone with both CDMA and GSM ...
Square, the mobile credit card payment processing on iOS device just got a new rival, this morning, Intuit Inc. announced that its iPad-optimized GoPayment app is now available on the App Store. GoPayment is a mobile payment app that lets anyone who sells a product or service get paid on the spot by easily and ...
RIM just removed the embargo for prominent journalists to published their one-week-usage review of the company first tablet, the Blackberry Playbook. The 7” button-less device is entering to the red hot market lead by Apple iPad and various tablets running Google Android OS. The Playbook is using QNX OS, ...
Guest Post by Jon T. Norwood The Playbook has been released and is receiving good, but not rave, reviews. Its interface, QNX, is good and has been termed “...an imitation of WebOS,” as quoted by an HP representative. Smooth and responsive, motions and gestures are quick, and although the apps ...
Google was the first major company to push NFC (Near Field Communication) in to the mainstream. NFC is the technology that allows contact-less payment using a smartphone device to replace the plastic credit card. NFC has been widely adopted in Asia. This morning the Wall Street Journal reported that the giant search company is ...
After many rumors and speculation, today RIM, announced officially, its upcoming Playbook tablet will support apps written for Android platform. On the Playbook, Android apps will be running in emulation mode called "application run-time environment" since RIM uses QNX based OS on its Playbook, which also offers native app platform as well. ...
RIM just announced the beta release of the Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones app v2.0 through BlackBerry Beta Zone starting today. The Facebook app v2.0 is the biggest update since the release of v1.0 more than three years ago. This initial release of v2.0 has a redesigned user interface and also offers Facebook Chat! Below ...
Will this smartwatch make wearing a watch hype again? we would say so. inPulse is taking order for the $149 watch that can be more than a watch. The wrist-size computer watch can wirelessly interact with your Blackberry phones, Android phones and PC/Mac/ Linux computers via Bluetooth connection. inPulse watch features a 96×128 ...
As we mentioned several times on SolSie.com, Near Field Communication or NFC will make big way to our lives this year. NFC allows secured mobile payments (among other things) using your smartphone and with few taps. The mobile blog BGR just scored few screenshots indicating Bank of America will soon launch a trial ...
Starting today, you can left behind your wallet for your next Latte, Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks is taking its mobile payments plan nationwide. After the success of its Gift card program, the company has decided to extend this mode of purchase and payment it with an app that runs initially on the iPhone, ...
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology that allows authentication and encrypted information exchanges between two enable devices at short distance. NFC has started tricking in to Android devices since Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the whole Blackberry line-up. There were words about Apple is also hiring NFC engineers for the net iPhone. Last December, Google ...
Until the tablet Playbook and new handsets with QNX operating systems make their appearance later this year, RIM is about rolling out a hybrid handset called the Blackberry Dakota. Blackberry is known and loved for its efficient frontal QWERTY keyboard and a small display navigated by a track ball or recent optical ...
RIM just posted another video demonstrating rich web video content using both HTML5 and Adobe Flash, and social networking with Facebook Chat, Facebook Flash games and viewing embedded content in your News Feed.on the upcoming tablet called Playbook. There have been some rumors about RIM delaying the device to further improve the battery ...