RIM CIO Robin Bienfait Announces Her Retirement

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RIM’s Chief Information Officer, Robin Bienfait, will retire at the end of this year, the company announced. Bienfait has been with RIM for six years and even though she is leaving her position she’ll continue to work with RIM in an advisory position during the transition to the new mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10, that [...]

First BlackBerry 10 phone to be named Z10?

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What flew off as rumors yesterday about the first BlackBerry 10 device’s name has taken a turn and has left a lot of people confirming that the rumored name is official. The leak came from Unwired View saying, unofficially, the BlackBerry L-Series would be named  BlackBerry Z10 after launch. According to the leak, RIM is dropping [...]

How to add a Facebook search engine to your BlackBerry OS7.1 browser

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So I just thought I would give you a lil tutorial on how to search for people, pages, events or groups on Facebook using your BlackBerry browser. Why? Well I like to believe that Facebook search is a social search engine and if you wanna look for somebody that’s the one place to find them. [...]

Twitter for BlackBerry v4.0.0.15 now available

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Twitter for BlackBerry version 4.0.0.15 is officially available on BlackBerry App World.

First look at the BlackBerry 10 Voice Command

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As the launch date draws near, more and more features begin to show near-final form and functionality like the voice command images we have here. RIM has managed to keep us on our toes from early this year and I’m pretty sure when we get our hands on the BB10 devices the new OS will [...]

VIDEO: BlackBerry 10 keyboard in action

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In this video Vivek Bhardwaj gives us the scoop on the BlackBerry 10 keyboard.

BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Updates To OS 10.0.9.1675

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With the release of the BlackBerry 10 SDK Toolkit Gold reported earlier on RIM still had more goodies for developers, an update to the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices – OS v10.0.9.1675. Thanx to NerdBerry we have here all the information about the update.

Twitter for BlackBerry updated to v4.0.0.10 in Beta Zone

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BlackBerry’s native twitter app is currently under development in Beta Zone, with an update just released. Here is the changelog below.

VIDEO: How To Use BBM Voice to Voice Chat

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Okay so now you have downloaded BlackBerry Messenger 7 and you have no idea what this Voice Chat hype is all about. Watch the video below and you’ll see all you need to know about using it.

VIDEO: Introducing BBM Voice Chat For BlackBerry Messenger 7

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Some cried for a voice chat app for BlackBerry and RIM listened, only they merged it with your number one chat app – BBM. With BBM Voice you can now be closer than ever with your family, friends and business contacts. Check out the video below for the all-you-need-to-know about BBM Voice.

Does MeeGo-based Sailfish OS look familiar?

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While doing a little browsing and reading, I came across an interesting finding. The Meego-based Sailfish OS by Jolla – a Finnish tech startup.

Preparing for your migration to a BlackBerry 10 device

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BlackBerry 10 is near and developers like Kisai Labs have rolled out an app to help us countdown the days to the launch date. We are done with faith articles and tech blogs have basically run out of recycled posts to bash RIM with. To the faithful, its about that time to get ready to [...]

Evolving BlackBerry Maps in BB10

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Following the constant feature releases by RIM on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system, I can’t help but feel that little attention was given to the native BlackBerry maps application. Quite a number of BlackBerry users will concur that the maps application is one of the most important apps on our smartphones and I’m here [...]