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New BlackBerry application development tool announced

At the BlackBerry-sponsored Wireless Enterprise Symposium that starts today in Orlando, BlackBerry is showing a forthcoming development tool called BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Video Studio.Available as a free download later this year, this tool will enable BlackBerry developers to work within the .NET programming environment to create wireless applications for...

Tags: Uncategorized, News, BlackBerry Software, BlackBerry developers

Blog posts 2007-05-08

IM+ Skype Software for BlackBerry updated

At the BlackBerry-sponsored Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, SHAPE Services has announced a new version of its IM+ for Skype Software for BlackBerry.Were now on v 2.21. Costs $25.00 after a free seven-day trial period. The software enables voice and text communication with other Skype...

Tags: Uncategorized, News, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Ring2 Conference Controller for BlackBerry now released in North America

Ring2 Conferencing, an audio-conferencing solutions provider whose Ring2 Conference Controller enables remote control from mobile devices, says this morning that its Ring2 Conference Controller for BlackBerry is being launched in North America. Heres how Ring2 says this product works: The Ring2 Conference Controller...

Tags: Uncategorized, News, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Software suite will enable BlackBerry users to create Word, Excel, PowerPoint files

DataViz has announced the Documents To Go for BlackBerry mobile editing suite.Due for release later this year at $29.99, Documents To Go will enable BlackBerry users to access, view and create native Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files on their handhelds.Which all I can say is about...

Tags: Uncategorized, News, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Virtual GPS now available for most BlackBerrys

The Navizon Virtual GPS is now available for BlackBerry.Navizon works on any Java-enabled BlackBerry. Its available for a 15-day evaluation period with a purchase price of $24.95 after that."With the Navizon application you can see where you are on a map and navigate to other locations, see...

Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Commenter:Windows Mobile BlackBerry app suite NO, HANDSET YES!

With regard to todays announcement about a forthcoming "virtual BlackBerry UI" application suite on Windows Mobile devices, not everyone seems to be all that jumping for joy about the concept. "No, no, no!," writes David, a commenter on U.K.-based The Registers Reg Hardware site. David then qualifies that...

Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry hardware, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-04-23

New BlackBerry app suite will run on some Windows Mobile devices

This morning, BlackBerry announced its intent to become more interoperable with rival OS Windows Mobile.Thats because of a new software applications suite due "later this year" that will enable third-party devices (i.e., Windows Mobile 6-powered handsets) to run what BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion calls: "A virtual BlackBerry application experience,...

Tags: Uncategorized, News, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-04-22

Outdoorsy, love Google Earth AND a BlackBerry 7520 or 7100i user? Gotta read this

So tell me, do you:Love the outdoors, and:Own a BlackBerry 7520 or BlackBerry 7100i?Id say check to both. I love the outdoors. I am an Oregonian. Nuff said there.And while I may or may not be "happy to see you," that is a BlackBerry 7520 in my pocket.So thats why...

Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Oracle Siebel CRM is now BlackBerry-compliant

Oracle today announced Oracle Siebel Wireless support for BlackBerry.GUI is going to look something like above. The upside: enterprises will gain mobile access to CRM data in real time.Projected users of this CRM data include executives, sales teams and field services engineers who rely on their BlackBerry smartphones to...

Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Software, BlackBerry enterprise

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Highlighted product lets you convert DVDs to BlackBerry-compatible files

Geeksugars Download of the Day is the newest rev of BlackBerry Video Converter. 1.12, if you must know. This utility lets you convert your videos to BlackBerry-compatible formats. With that accomplished, you can watch DVD-formatted videos and others on video-capable BlackBerrys. From Seabyrd Technologies, this freeware product uses the...

Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Software, BlackBerry developers

Blog posts 2007-04-05

Here's your complete BlackBerry Daylight Savings Time how-to resource

In most of North America except for Arizona and Hawaii the clocks will move forward one hour at 2 a.m. this Sunday.The arrival of Daylight Savings Time occurs three weeks ahead of its previous arrival on the first Sunday in April.Unfortunately, most BlackBerry devices were built in advance of this...

Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-03-08

BlackBerry 8800 site is live-and we have pix!

The BlackBerry8800 site is now live. The home page, which you see up top, is quite graphics-intensive. That should come as no surprise.You can also obtain several views of the BlackBerry 8800 in action. Below, it is displaying a photo. I said displaying, not taking. Sorry, no camera....

Tags: BlackBerry 8800, BlackBerry photos and video, BlackBerry Software, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-12

Additional Resources

Deals abound for back to school

I took a walk through Circuit City today to see where consumer PCs stood. We'll be back to school in a matter of weeks and parents are already asking about laptops for their high school and college-bound students. The good news is that for $700 you can pick...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-22

RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug

Just a quick note to update a story I wrote last week on an unpatched remote execution vulnerability affecting BlackBerry business users: Research in Motion RIM has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. ...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Needed: iPhone radio toggle application

It's pretty well documented that the iPhone 3G can barely eek out a full day's use on a single charge. So much so that a cottage industry is cropping up for external battery packs. Here's a free tip that I previously mentioned for an enterprising developer that...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Battery, 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?

Microsoft is ready to launch its campaign to save Vista's reputation, which has been formed by the software giant's miscues as well as Apple's funny ads. The big question: Is this a mess that Microsoft can market its way out of? Ed Bott found the first hints...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerability

True to form, Billy Rios promised a more in depth look at the MSFA2008-35 vulnerability which is another protocol handler flaw in Firefox 3.  As previously reported here, this was another protocol handler flaw that led to arbitrary remote command execution, and is especially dangerous since it can be deployed...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Protocol Handler, Firefox3, Security Decision, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Microsoft hints about new profile-centric Win Live wares

The blogosphere was atwitter pun intended over the past day or two about Facebook's recent revamp designed to make user pages more profile-centric. But Facebook isn't the only one going this route. It sounds like Microsoft is going more profile-centric in a couple of different ways with its upcoming Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Portal, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...

Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-22