BlackBerry Outage Spreads as Users Demand Compensation

RIM Faces User Revolt in BlackBerry Outage BlackBerry service is still not back up to speed. Arguably it has gotten worse: RIM's smartphone network is now broken around the world, whereas before the BlackBerry...

Blackberry Outage Also Hits Microsoft Cloud Service

Europe-Middle East-Africa BlackBerry Outage BlackBerry's EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) market has been hit with widespread BlackBerry service outages on October 10, 2011. Millions of users are affected by the...

Blackberry Playbook Launch in India - Launch Date 22 June

Blackberry Playbook is Launching in India on 23 June! RIM will be launching the BlackBerry PlayBook in India on June 22, as per an advertisement in a leading daily. Booking for the tablet is now open, although...

RIM to censor porn sites from its devices in Indonesia

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it would block porn sites from its devices in Indonesia to comply with an order by the government.While giving RIM a deadline of 21 January, Indonesian communications and information minister Tiffatul Sembiring has asked the...

LOOK AT ME! Smart phone stoners & the pitch to save them

I really want to get one of those new smart phones. They’re so cool – all tiny, shiny and spankingly hip – you just know you’ve been left behind culturally if you haven’t yet joined in the fun. And...

Emirates to Block Blackberry Messages: 'Too Secure'

United Arab Emirates to Ban Blackberry Email & Messaging The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will block transmission of Blackberry email and messaging. The reason: Blackberry is too secure, and the Emirates was...

Stanford Survey Rates iPhone Addiction: 44% of Students Obsessed

A Stanford University survey of 200 iPhone-using students found the Apple smartphone can be rather addictive for both recent adoptees and long-time users. Of those surveyed, 70% had their iPhone for less than a...

BlackBerry Email Down Again in North America

BlackBerry's email service is down for the second time in a week across North America. This problem lies with BlackBerry itself, and is not limited to any particular mobile phone service provider. The outage has...

Blackberry Outage December 22nd: BBM Outage Could be a Day to Fix

There is another Blackberry Outage today December 22nd and some reports say that the BBM outage could be a day to fix, although it could also be as short as three hours but be prepared for longer just in case. There are no e-mails, web browsing or Blackberry Messenger for the...

Devils Head Ski Resort Accident Leaves 14 Injured

The Devils Head Ski Resort in Wisconsin was the scene of a chair lift accident yesterday when an emergency brake on a lift failed and the cable rolled backwards to cause many chairs to slam in to each other at the...

Ping! iPhone App: Blackberry Ain't Got Nothin' on Apple Anymore

Sorry Research In Motion, but the Blackberry ain't got nothin' on the Apple iPhone anymore. Ping!, a new app available for the iPhone is the equivalent to the much-loved Blackberry Messenger (BBM). Made by the guy behind PushGmail, Ping! is a fast and free SMS like service...

RIMM Earnings: Research in Motion Earns $3.42 Billion in Q1 2010

Research in Motion (RIMM) announced $3.42 billion in revenue for the first quarter of the 2010 fiscal year. This is a bit below last quarter, but way ahead of Q1 2009. The revenue breakdown heavily favored Blackberry handsets (83% of revenue), as the Crackberry made its way...

BlackBerry App World Goes Live

Blackberry App World is now live in the UK , USA and Canada. Announced early last month, the online shop for Crackberry apps is like the Apple App Store for the PIN set. So, i fyou see more people bumping into...

Blackberry App World Announced

Blackberry's application store is now online, though it's the smartphone equivalent of a store with butcher-paper over its windows. Don't call it the "app store", though... the storefront is called App World. It...

BlackBerry for babies set to launch

Leapfrog, a company specializing on toys for kids is set to release a version of the Blackberry for toddlers which teaches them how to "browse" and "text" without having to go online.This BlackBerry for kids is an...

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