Archive | BlackBerry Apps

08 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

RIM Acquires DataViz – Future Of Non-BlackBerry Product Line In Question

Confirmations are flowing that DataViz – the publisher of the popular Documents To Go mobile software – has been acquired by Research in Motion. DataViz Documents To Go allows mobile devices to access (read, write) Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files from mobile devices including iPhone, Android and maemo. According to web site Digital [...]

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21 January 2010 ~ Comments Off

foursquare for BlackBerry (beta)

foursquare for BlackBerry is not yet out in an official version – although a link to download the beta version has been circulating for the past week or so. This popular location aware social media application has versions for Android and iPhone which allow you to “check in” at various locations (earning points for each) [...]

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23 December 2009 ~ Comments Off

Wayne Schulz’s BlackBerry Messenger PIN Barcode

Looks like the great BlackBerry Messenger crash of 12/22/09 took my BlackBerry Messenger Contacts with it. If we were connected – point your BlackBerry at the screen and reconnect (go to BlackBerry Messenger – Contacts – [menu key] Invite Contacts – Scan Bar Code).

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23 December 2009 ~ Comments Off

BlackBerry Messenger Crashed The RIM Network

According to a press release from Research in Motion their nearly 8 hour total service outage for their BlackBerry devices was caused by a bad BlackBerry Messenger version. According to RIM it appears that the issue stemmed from a flaw in two recently released versions of BlackBerry Messenger (versions 5.0.0.55 and 5.0.0.56) that caused an [...]

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06 December 2009 ~ 12 Comments

BeeJive 2.0 Beta Improves BlackBerry OS 5 Support

BeeJive yesterday released beta version 2.0 of their popular instant messaging client for BlackBerry smartphones. This update builds upon beta 1.9.7 with bug fixes. – support for 5.0 OS – file transfers via link, you can now transfer files to buddies on all IM accounts. – email push when app running in background (see preferences [...]

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