BerryManiacs

A few nights ago I was online at the user web site my.blackberry.com where I was desperately trying to explain to a user (I’ll call him “John”) that his stolen BlackBerry would not be located by the police, or his local phone company, or RIM.  He insisted that one of these groups “should” locate it via the [...]

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 [...]

Back in October, I talked about BlackBerry Protect, RIM’s software that will let you remotely backup and restore your BlackBerry, as well as help find it if it is lost.  This morning, RIM announced that BlackBerry Protect has officially entered the open beta phase and can be downloaded by anybody from the App World Test [...]

With all of the talk of the PlayBook, it can be easy to forget that there are a lot of other cool things coming soon to BlackBerry in the future.  I’ve seen a bunch of articles recently about some programs coming to the BlackBerry soon, so I decided to combine them into one post. BlackBerry [...]