RIM Enables Etisalat Update Removal
“Recently an update may have been provided to you by Etisalat for your BlackBerry Handheld via a WAP push. The Etisalat update is not a RIM-authorized update and was not developed by RIM. Independent sources have concluded that the Etisalat update is not designed to improve performance of your BlackBerry Handheld, but rather to send received messages back to a central server. RIM has developed this software (“Software”) that will enable you to remove the Etisalat update.” Not my...
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BlackBerry to Finally Release Desktop Manager for Mac
Those of you who proudly tote around your BlackBerry and also call yourself a Mac person have been making do without the desktop software that your PC pals already have. You’ve had to live without iTunes playlist sync, quick access to your apps, backup of your data, and the other conveniences of managing your device from your desktop. Well the desktop envy is about to be no more, as BlackBerry is officially announcing that their desktop manager for Mac will be available come September. The...
Read MoreBlackberry and Android Get Google Voice Mobile App
Google Voice just became much easier to use for Blackberry and Android owners as a new mobile app has been released. Will you be downloading the new Google Voice app for Blackberry or Android. Tell us. Prior to the new app, to place a call with Google Voice, you had to dial your own Google Voice number… but with the new mobile app you can make calls and send SMS messages with your Google Voice number directly from your mobile phone. The app comes fully integrated with your phone’s...
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BlackBerry App World now home to 2,000 applications, RIM pretty stoked
It may have some 48,000 or so to go before it catches the runaway leader in app choice, but doubling up its catalog after launching just 3.5 months ago ain’t nothing to scoff at. As RIM suffers through the traditional growing pains with its fledgling BlackBerry App World, it has managed to amass around 2,000 programs for users to love, hate or feel completely indifferent about. According to Jeff McDowell, vice president of global alliances, that number is apt to rise when it goes live...
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