Starting Nov. 1st, Research in Motion employees can start to participate in the RIMoustache Competition, a month-long moustache growing contest where proceeds will be donated to prostate cancer research. There will be a $5 entry fee for each participant who must be clean shaven on November 1st. Contest rules also state that no hair can be grown below the bottom lip and moustaches cannot be joined with sideburns in any way.
This sounds like a really fun way to raise money for charity.
[Via Gizmodo]
Not a week ago, rumors started spreading that Verizon cancelled the BlackBerry Storm 9570 which was basically a BlackBerry 6 capable refresh of the BlackBerry Storm2 9550. It actually looks like, however, that Research in Motion has canceled the BlackBerry Storm 9570 for all.
Head after the jump to see what RIM had to say to a BlackBerry developer about their application intended for the BlackBerry Storm Refresh…
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Even though BlackBerry Enterprise Server has been around for well over a year for Notes and Exchange, BES for Novell GroupWise is still way back on version 4.1.7. There is potential good news for Novell Shops however. Rumor has it that RIM is soon to release BlackBerry Eneterprise Server for Novell GroupWise 5 SP1. According to the release notes BES 5.0.1 for Groupwise is pretty much the same as the other version of BES 5.
[Via BerryReview]
There is no question the the big news out of DevCon 2010 last week was the announcement of the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM’s first attempt at a table device. The BlackBerry PlayBook had been rumored for months to be coming out by the holiday season this year, however, Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar says that RIM aborted 2010 BlackBerry PlayBook launch plans due to “technical issues”.
In a research note, Kumar contends the company’s new QNX Neutrino software platform “was not ready for prime time.” He also says that the Marvell (MRVL) Armada 610 application processor the company had planned to use was “bug ridden.” Kumar says the company has “jettisoned” Marvell from the PlayBook in favor of a processor from Texas Instruments.
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We thought for a little while this morning that the BlackBerry Tablet which has been rumored for months wouldn’t actually get officially announced today during the BlackBerry DEVCON 2010 keynote. Well, so much for that…
Mike Lazaridis’ portion of the keynote pretty much centered around the BlackBerry PlayBook, an ultra thin (9.7mm), 1GHz Dual core processor tablet with 1Gb of RAM, standard HDMI output, both front and back facing hi-def video cameras, with HTML 5, Flash 10.1, and Adobe Air support. Oh, and, did we mention that the PlayBook is enterprise ready?
Needless to say we will have much more to talk about once we can get our hands on a full spec sheet…
I initially heard on Squawk Box this morning that the BlackBerry Tablet may not be introduced at BlackBerry Devcon today, and, it would appear, that BGR has confirmed this. According to BGR’s source, Mike Lazaridis will focus on the next generation tablet OS platform, however, won’t focus on any hardware. ”It would be unlikely for RIM to announce the mysterious tablet device during a developer event…”
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Research in Motion’s BlackBerry developer conference, DEVCON 2010 kicks off today in San Francisco and runs through the 30th. Something tells me that their is going to plenty of BlackBerry news this week…
Check out http://www.blackberrydevcon.com/ for more information…
