by Robb Dunewood on December 18, 2006 · 6 comments
Russell Shaw over on BBHub is reporting that one of the owners of the domain name BlackBerry8800.com has been contacted by Research in Motion and that a deal has been worked out to transfer ownership of the domain to RIM.
Registering domain names in anticipation of a company wanting to use that domain name later, or [...]
by Robb Dunewood on December 18, 2006 · 1 comment
Berry411, arguably one if not the best free BlackBerry applications out there, has just been updated to version 3.73 and is available for download.
The latest release can be viewed as a minor update adding an expanded autocomplete dictionary with hundreds of thousands of entries that are updated daily on the Berry411 backend servers, Yokel local [...]
by Robb Dunewood on December 18, 2006 · 0 comments
QuickPlay Media says that QuickPlayer for BlackBerry, their streaming audio service, is ‘ready for launch’.
QuickPlayer for BlackBerry offers:
Streamed audio plays immediately; no need to wait for a download
Bandwidth efficient content produced and encoded to optimize data
Viral marketing capability encourages users to send application to a friend
Premium channels content secured [...]
by Robb Dunewood on December 18, 2006 · 7 comments
According to the Observer of London Google, in its continuing efforts to completety take over the world as far as being the middle man between information and people who want it, has held talks with Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC and mobile telecom giant Orange about a multi-billion dollar partnership to create a ‘Google phone‘, or, [...]