On the eve of Research in Motion’s Third Quarter Fiscal 2012 earnings call, shares in the company dropped to their lowest level since May of 2004, down 2.5% closing at $15.08.
Back at the beginning of the month RIM adjusted guidance warning that it would be at the low mid-point of what it had previously forecast and that it would record a $485 pre-tax provision for BlackBerry PlayBook inventory which the company had to deeply discount to move.
RIM’s earnings call later today should prove to be an interesting one… What do you think will happen with RIM’s stock price (RIMM)?
Episode #96 of the SMRpodcast with special guest, Mary Joe Foley, from All About Microsoft and Windows Weekly, has been recorded and is now available online. This week we talk about some of the new Microsoft apps that came out for Windows Phone 7 and iOS devices, a little Verizon vs. Google on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus front, and we’ve got some pretty good picks for those of you looking for good applications to install on your smartphones.
UberSocial for BlackBerry, arguably the most popular third-party Twitter client for the BlackBerry, has been updated to version 1.3 and is now available for download.
UberSocial for BlackBerry v1.3 features:
Integrated with BBM, you can now set your BBM status or personal message to your last tweet, requires BlackBerry OS version 5.0 or higher.
You can save and restore draft tweets from the compose screen.
Reworked the login mechanism with Twitter to avoid some issues.
Added the ability to turn off the global ‘Uber Tweet’ menu item
Fixed bug in mypict.me upload which could cause the app to lock up.
Fixed bug in keyword muting where you couldn’t include a ‘#’ at the beginning of the keyword.
Fixed bug where UberChannel background images were getting their corners rounded.
Changed the link color in the red and pink themes to be more readable
To download UberSocial for BlackBerry v1.3, visit the UberSocial for BlackBerry download page from your device and select the appropriate version for your BlackBerry.
Back in October at BlackBerry DevCon 2011, Research in Motion announced that they were going to brand their new QNX based next-generation operating system with the name BBX. Unfortunately, however, RIM didn’t check to see that BBx was already trademarked.
With Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and Musical Director Paul Mirkovich at the helm, T-Mobile surprises shoppers at the Chicagoland area’s Woodfield Mall with a surprise performance and updated spin on the holiday classic, “(There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays.”
Twitter for BlackBerry v2.1 is out of beta and officially available for download in BlackBerry App World. The new hotness in this version of Twitter for BlackBerry is multiple account support, a feature that many BlackBerry users have been waiting on for some time.
So, if you haven’t been following the saga of the rooted BlackBerry PlayBook, a small group of developers recently found a way to gain root access on the PlayBook and released an app on Monday called DingleBerry which allows BlackBerry PlayBook owners to easily get the keys to the kingdom, so to speak, on their tablets.
SMRpodcast #95, Begging for Apps is now online and ready for download. This week we talk a lot about BlackBerry and explain whey so many tech journalists are wrong about the Kindle Fire. We also debate Verizon’s stance on Windows Phone, and, of course we’ve got our picks… A lot of really good picks, especially for Android users…
If you own a BlackBerry PlayBook, you’ve probably heard by now that there is root kit has called DingleBerry has been released that allows you to gain elevated privileges on your device.
To address DingleBerry, or, the elevation of privilege vunlnerability, as RIM refers to it, the company has released BlackBerry PlayBook OS v1.0.8.6067.
Most PlayBook owners should probably update to OS v1.0.8.6067 and can do so simply by clicking checking for software updates. If you were planning, however, to DingleBerry your tablet, clearly, you’ll want to hold off.
