Free Stuff For Your BlackBerry

Aaron over on BlackBerry Blog, has compiled a list of free stuff for your BlackBerry.  You will find games, ringtones, wallpapers, themes, and mobile websites chock full of stuff that won’t cost you anything but time to take a look at them.

Here’s the list:

• http://www.blackberry.net/go/mobile — Links to many sites formatted for your BlackBerry handheld’s small screen
• http://www.adamdaley.com/wap — Free ringtones… Lots of free ringtones
• http://www.polyphonicringtonez.com/wap/index.php — Long URL but more free ringtones
• http://www.8ung.at/morph — Free themes and ringtones
• http://www.blackberrywallpapers.com — The name says it all
• http://mobile.blackberry.com/ — A portal formatted for your BlackBerry

Written by Robb Dunewood on July 27th, 2005 with 12 comments.
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BlackBerry Women and Technology Awards

Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry handheld device, and Aurora, a women’s business networking group, has set up the first BlackBerry Women and Technology awards. 

Prizes will be awarded to women of have been leaders in academia, journalism, public and private sectors, as well as top female mentors.  The awards will raise profiles of trailblazing women in what has been a technology world, dominated by men.

What we want is to recognize the progress and achievement women have made not only in the technology industry, but also in using technology,” Charmaine Eggberry, from RIM, told the BBC News website

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Cingular Wins $8 Million BlackBerry Contract

Cingular Wireless has been awarded a five year, $8 million dollar contract by the City of Houston to provide over 1600 BlackBerry handhelds and EDGE-enabled PC modem cards. 

The new deal comes in addition to continued voice service for more than 3,800 wireless phones that Cingular retains from previous agreements with the city.  The 5 year deal represents 80% of the City of Houston’s wireless budget for the same time period.

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Nextex Releases GPS Productivity Tools for BlackBerry 7520

Five GPS-powered productivity tools, formerly only available on Nextel Assisted-GPS handsets, are now available for the BlackBerry 7520.

The productivity tools include:

• ArcSoft Comet Tracker — which uses GPS to locate and track workers, maintain electronic timesheets, and dispatch tasks
• Corrigo Connect — a wireless web-based work-order and dispatch management solution for service organizations with installation, maintenance and repair operations.
• Gearworks Etrace — which provides electronic time sheets and GPS-fleet maps to optimize field service operations.
• IT2ME Silver, Gold & Platinum — which are GPS-based wireless business solutions that allow customers to track and monitor valuable assets and employees.
• Xora GPS Time Track — an application that combines employee hours, job/work order management, GPS location tracking and barcode scanning capabilities.

These applications, which are an extension of services previously available on Nextel Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) handsets, enable users to locate and dispatch workers; manage work orders; process electronic time sheets; and monitor assets directly from their BlackBerry 7520(TM) handheld devices. Moreover, these location-based services (LBS) can complement existing sales force management applications, such as Salesforce.com, making BlackBerry(R) an even more powerful business tool.

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