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RIM Pulls Trapster from the App World at Request of US Senators

Earlier this week, democratic Senators Harry Reid of Nevada, Charles Schumer of New York, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Tom Udall of New Mexico sent a letter to RIM, Apple, and Google asking them to stop making apps available in their app stores that enable people to find out where DUI checkpoints are on [...]

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RIM’s 2011 Software Roadmap Leaks Out

New hardware isn’t the only thing that RIM has cooking for this year.  Earlier today N4BB released what looks like RIM’s software roadmap.  A lot of stuff on here has already happened, like App World 2.1, Flickr reaching end-of-life, BlackBerry Protect, and the FaceBook hotfix release.  Very intriguing is the “BB 7 SN Core Integration”.  I’m [...]

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The Evolution of App World – More countries and Integrated Carrier Billing

No trumpets sounded on February 14, 2011, when RIM announced that 27 more countries now have access to BlackBerry App World, but this is a big deal.  As someone who spends quite a lot of time responding to BlackbBerry user-inquiries regarding App World on  the “My BlackBerry” website, users around the world who did not yet have [...]

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