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Chase Mobile for BlackBerry now available with Check Deposit…

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Chase Bank has just released Chase Mobile for BlackBerry with mobile check deposit.

Chase Mobile app for BlackBerry features include:

  • FIND US – Locate your nearest Chase branch or ATM quickly and easily.
  • CONTACT US – Talk to our service representatives; they’re just a touch away.
  • MAKE A DEPOSIT – With Chase QuickDeposit, you can save a trip to the bank. Simply make your deposit with two clicks of your BlackBerry smartphone camera.
  • CHASE PERSON-TO-PERSON QUICKPAY – Send money to nearly anyone with a U.S. bank account just by using an email address or mobile phone number.
  • MANAGE ACCOUNT ALERTS – Choose FREE Account Alerts to help you stay on top of your finances and monitor your account activity.
  • SEE REWARDS – See your credit card and debit card rewards information
  • BLUEPRINT – We’ve made it even easier to stick to your plan.  Simply view and make your BLUEPRINT credit card payment from your BlackBerry.
Chase Mobile for BlackBerry is a free BlackBerry download and you can pick up in BlackBerry App World.

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BlackBerry App World v3.1 now available in BlackBerry Beta Zone

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BlackBerry App World v3.1 is now available for download in BlackBerry Beta Zone and contains a few new features including Wi-Fi only download support and content ratings.

Unfortunately we must also report that Research in Motion has included the most  bass-ackwards implementation of application gift requesting imaginable.  Instead of allowing a gift giver to initiate the process of giving of a BlackBerry app to someone, BlackBerry App World v3.1 instead allows users that want gifts to beg for them via BBM.

I can honestly tell you that the first time that I ever receive an unsolicited gift request from a BBM contact will be the last time I ever use BBM and possibly BlackBerry App World.  Let’s hope that RIM kills the gift begging feature in BlackBerry App World v3.1 before it becomes officially available, or, at the very least, adds the ability to opt out of being begged by contacts to buy them apps.

Cross platform IM client PingChat! renamed to Touch and gets a lot more social…

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Popular cross platform mobile IM client PingChat! has been renamed to Touch and updated to include a lot more social features.

PingChat! has over 13 million users that will be upgraded to Touch which offers cross platform support to Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone users. There currently isn’t any support for Windows Phone planned, but, Enflick, the company behind Touch will keep a close eye on demand for other platforms.

BlackBerry users should head over to www.touch.com/blackberry to download Touch OTA to your device.  Android and iPhone users can pick Touch up in your respective App storefronts…

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Research in Motion is going to miss Q3…

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Research in Motion just issued a press release stating that it is going to miss it’s Q3 guidance of $5.3 billion to $5.6 billion in revenue.

To make a long story short, RIM basically stated the BlackBerry PlayBook is a dog that won’t hunt at $500 and the only way they have any shot at clearing the warehouse full of tablets collecting dust is to continue to deeply discount them at the $199 rates that you have been seeing over the last week or so.

Since RIM can’t really sell the PlayBook and make a profit, they essentially are going to unload them however they can and hope that the people that get them rave about them making more people want them when PlayBook 2 comes out.

RIM Announces Third Quarter Provision Related To PlayBook Inventory; Provides Update to Q3 and Fiscal 2012 Guidance

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Press Release

Research In Motion Announces Third Quarter Provision Related To PlayBook Inventory and Confirms Commitment to Tablet Market; Provides Update to Q3 and Fiscal 2012 Guidance

Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today announced that it would record a pre-tax provision in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 of approximately $485 million, $360 million after tax, related to its inventory valuation of BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.  The charge is expected to be predominantly non-cash.  All figures in this release are in U.S. Dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated.

As previously disclosed, RIM has a high level of BlackBerry PlayBook inventory.  The Company now believes that an increase in promotional activity is required to drive sell-through to end customers.  This is due to several factors, including recent shifts in the competitive dynamics of the tablet market and a delay in the release of the PlayBook OS 2.0 software.  As a result, RIM will record a provision that reflects the current market environment and allows it to expand upon the aggressive level of promotional activity recently employed by the Company in order to drive PlayBook adoption around the world.

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