Posts Tagged ‘ Blackberry ’

Spanish-language media titan Univision Communications announced its new Univision Video App is available for download via BlackBerry App World, promising BlackBerry smartphone users access to top-rated network programs spanning categories including news, entertainment, sports, horoscopes and special events. The free BlackBerry app was developed in conjunction with mobile media firm GoTV Networks. The Univision...
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The Android operating system’s share of total North American mobile web consumption increased 8.3 percent month-over-month in February to grow to 15.2 percent, according to new data released by web analytics firm Quantcast–Android’s growth came at the expense of Apple’s iPhone OS, which slipped 3.2 percent to 6.7 percent. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform...
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EWeek.com has come up with a definitive list of the 25 hot technologies that changed the first decade of the 21st century. It’s a list that includes BlackBerrys and broadband. It also includes items we cannot even remember being without. Take Twitter, for instance. “Twitter has been massively influential and changed the way we...
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Location-based mobile social network Foursquare announced the release of version 1.5.5 of its BlackBerry beta application, which includes touchscreen support for BlackBerry Storm users and extends the service to virtually all RIM devices. Alongside enhancements like improved speed and battery life, version 1.5.5 boasts more efficient and accurate location lookups, nearby tips and tip...
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British newspapers are venting their disapproval of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s plans to introduce its own news and sports applications for the iPhone and other smartphone platforms, complaining that the state-owned company will compete with them and throw the market off balance. The Newspaper Publishers Association, a trade group representing the national British newspapers,...
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During its annual BlackBerry Developer Conference in November 2009, Research In Motion announced the wheels were in motion to introduce a new services platform enabling developer partners to integrate mobile advertising into their BlackBerry applications. RIM has divulged next to nothing about the project in the months since, but a new U.S. patent filing...
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Verizon Wireless announced the introduction of the slotRadio+ microSD card, promising BlackBerry smartphone users hand-selected playlists assembling 1,000 songs from bestselling artists alongside an additional 4GB of Flash memory for personal media storage. Designed by SanDisk, slotRadio+ is available in two versions: Billboard Hits (featuring music from contemporary hitmakers in modern rock, dance and...
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