Yesterday, Twitter restored access to a few of UberMedia’s previously banned apps. UberSocial and Twidroyd for Blackberry were among two of UberMedia’s Twitter clients that were shut down Friday for policy violations.
“We’ve given the developers of twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter) access to the Twitter API …
Need beer right away and don’t want to settle for that water in a glass bottle that they sell at your local convenience store? Brew World can help you out.
Their Blackberry app has compiled a list of over 1,600 breweries and over 3,000 beers in the United States. Using Blackberry maps, it can pinpoint the closest brewery and beers …
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As part of my research for this week’s TIME.com column on tech-savvy cars, I got to spend a few days test-driving a 2012 Ford Focus Titanium hatchback that was decked out with MyFord Touch, an advanced infotainment system with an 8-inch color touchscreen, voice input and output, Bluetooth, multiple jacks for hooking up external devices, …
Despite RIM’s best attempts to dodge pricing and availability information for its BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet, it looks like Office Depot may have spilled the beans in an internal screen shot apparently leaked to CrackBerry.com.
If it’s legit, it details a selling price of $499.99 for the 16GB version and an in-store date of “week 17,” …
Tech research firm, Canalys, has crowned Android the new king of smartphones, with fourth quarter shipments estimated at 33.3 million handsets—a whopping 615% increase over Q4 of 2009. Smartphone shipments, in general, grew 80% in 2010 versus 2009.
In the fourth quarter, Nokia’s Symbian platform fell to second place with 31 million …
Whoa, whoa, whoa. This latest BlackBerry rumor comes courtesy of BGR.com and it sounds so crazy that it just… might… work.
In the interest of not overly nerding up the story, the basic gist is that the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet—which we learned about back in September of last year—runs a new (for BlackBerry) …
The third time may be a charm for BlackBerry’s attempt at a touchscreen phone. The first Storm debuted to less-than-optimal reviews thanks to its finicky touchscreen, while the second Storm fared a bit better but lacked a decent web browser and the screen still had some quirks.
Early details about the Storm 3 have been acquired by …
A handful of upcoming BlackBerry handsets have been leaking to BGR.com throughout the day today and, while pricing and availability aren’t quite yet in the cards, we can at least take a look at what RIM’s got in store for everyone.
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First up is the “Dakota,” which appears to be part of the BlackBerry Bold …
Although the latest tablets may be generating all the buzz, a new Nielsen survey shows that for the average consumer, hype typically doesn’t translate into a purchase. According to the 27,000-person survey, only 6% of respondents said they were interested in buying a tablet. And while Amazon’s Kindle is its best-selling item of all time, …
Data broken down into several categories and represented by various graphical charts (including pie!); could it be any more exciting?
Neilsen has decided to throw iPhone, Android, and a handful of other smartphone platforms into the mix and watch them duke it out for the coveted title of Intergalactic Championship of the Universe. Or …
BlackBerry users now have a secure way to quickly capture credit card transactions on their handsets. The newly-announced Roam attachment is “the world’s first encrypted audio coupled card reader for BlackBerry devices,” according to the company’s press release.
The “swiper,” as it’s called, connects to the headphone jack of any …
Research in Motion’s 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will cost less than $500 when it becomes available in the U.S. early next year. RIM executive Jim Balsillie told Bloomberg, “The product will be very competitively priced.”
As tablet makers attempt to find ways to compete with Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad, which starts at $499, …
