Tag Archives: mwc2011

TAT Shows Off More… in 3D!!!

The guys over at the Inside BlackBerry Blog posted a video of how the PlayBook works in 3D using the HDMI output to a 3D-capable TV.  Although you can’t really see the video in 3D you can get a feeling of how it’d look in 3D.  This really shows off the power of the dual-core [...]

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TAT Shows Off What They’ve Been Working On

Today, the Inside BlackBerry Blog posted 2 videos of what The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), has been working on since they were acquired by RIM last year.  I mentioned at the end of last year why I was excited about TAT, and now I’m glad to see what they’ve been doing.  The first one (shown above) [...]

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MWC Day 1 Recap

There has been a lot of news today, so here is a quick recap of what happened on the first day of Mobile World Congress. RIM launched a new BlackBerry Travel app with the team at WorldMate.  Check out my first impressions and my thoughts on the official press release. In a press release right [...]

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RIM Presents BBM 6.0

More from Mobile World Congress today.  This time, Thebam Ganesh from RIM has a presentation about the new features that are coming in BBM 6.0.  The app itself doesn’t seem like it is changing that much, but they’re making up for it by expanding all of BBM’s features into APIs that can be used to [...]

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RIM adds Gist to their lineup

RIM announced today that contact innovator, Gist, is being added to the RIM family. From the Gist web site: “Gist provides the only full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates, and work details. We do this by pulling [...]

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RIM Demos Need for Speed on the PlayBook

Today, at Mobile World Congress, RIM’s Director of Developer Relations Mike Kirkup demonstrated EA’s upcoming Need for Speed title for the PlayBook.  This is exciting because it really shows off what a developer can do with the QNX native SDK, which will be made available to all developers at a later date.  It’s also exciting [...]

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More Information on BlackBerry Travel

Last night, I was among the first to write about RIM’s new BlackBerry Travel application.  Today, Worldmate has updated their website to promote BlackBerry Travel as a joint effort between themselves and RIM.  A quick look at RIM’s official press release, which came out after my last post, seems to confirm this: WorldMate and RIM [...]

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RIM Announces Two Additional BlackBerry 4G PlayBook Models For LTE and HSPA+ Networks

Just like the last one, this is another press release that RIM has posted on their site ahead of Mobile World Congress.  Unfortunately, the title is the only part of this release that is currently visible (Updated: the full release is up.  You can read it below.).  Perhaps this was posted in error and the [...]

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RIM Announces New BBM Gifting Program

RIM has posted a few press releases ahead of MWC 2011, which is set to kick off in a few hours.  The first is RIM’s new BBM gifting program that will allow BBM users to “instantly gift airtime, apps and other carrier services from one subscriber to another using BBM.”  This new system will integrate [...]

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