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CrackBerry Live: PriceCheck Mobile - Winners of the app of the year award

Posted by Bla1ze on 16 May 2013 3:56 pm
After the announcement of the BlackBerry Achievement Award winners, PriceCheck Mobile, who took home the app of the year award swung by CrackBerry Live to give us a walkthrough of their offerings. Andre W. de Wet, General Manager, PriceCheck guided us through it all and explained why their app is doing so well in South Africa, possible expansion plans and and winning the BlackBerry...
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CrackBerry Live: Talking faxes and VoIP on BlackBerry 10 with Jim Courtney

Posted by Simon Sage on 16 May 2013 3:18 pm
  As it turns out, sometimes people still need to send a fax. Luckily, there's a mobile app out there for BlackBerry 10 called PamFax which lets you handle it without all of the fuss of a bulky machine. Users can pay a subscription fee for an inbound line, or get a bucket of credit for outbound faxes, which can be pulled in from on-device images and documents.  We met up with Jim Courtney at...
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CrackBerry Live: Hands-on with Samadhi relaxation apps

Posted by Bla1ze on 16 May 2013 2:38 pm
Everyone has stress in their lives and for some folks listening to some soothing sounds helps relax situations. Stopping by CrackBerry Live was Till Adam, Services Director at KDAB, to show us some apps he's been working on with Samadhi Group and Tasia Valenza. The apps are beautifully designed and if you enjoy tuning out the world in an attempt to regain some sanity, they should do the...
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CrackBerry Live: Bruce Haendel stops by to discuss the Tazzle IT printing solution for BlackBerry

Posted by Bla1ze on 16 May 2013 2:02 pm
While a lot of focus at BlackBerry Live was placed on BlackBerry 10 apps, there's still plenty of BlackBerry OS developers out there. One long standing app in the community is Tazzle IT. Bruce Haendel, CEO Tazzle It, stopped by the CrackBerry Live stage to give us a run through of what his app does, how it can be used and where people can get it. Tazzle IT offers its customers a software and...
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CrackBerry Live: Talking QNX and BlackBerry 10 with Sebastien Marineau

Posted by Simon Sage on 16 May 2013 2:00 pm
At BlackBerry Live 2013, we had the chance to talk with a QNX veteran and colleague to Dan Dodge, Seb Marineau. He's a senior VP of software at BlackBerry and was with QNX throughout the BlackBerry acquisition. Seb has since worked on the PlayBook and more recently, BlackBerry 10. Kevin talks with him about the transition process between companies and between platforms. They go over QNX's...
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CrackBerry Live: Chad Tetreault talks joining #TeamBlackBerry and supporting HTML5 apps

Posted by Simon Sage on 16 May 2013 10:02 am
The BlackBerry Live 2013 interview train keeps on a-rollin' with Chad Tetreault. This time last year, Chad was an indie developer at mblware, which was probably best known for their JeeoSuite Wi-Fi remote file access app. Since then, he's joined #TeamBlackBerry in a very real way as an Application Development Consultant. Basically, that means he helps HTML5 developers chew through whatever...
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CrackBerry Live: 10 Minutes with the one and only Vivek Bhardwaj

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 16 May 2013 9:32 am
If you're a BlackBerry fan and have tuned into any of the BlackBerry conference keynotes the past year and a half, you will know Vivek Bhardwaj. Vivek has been doing demos for the latest and greatest BlackBerry features for years now as head of the BlackBerry Software Porfolio. Adam and I run through the show's big announcements with Vivek, get some insight to what happens behind the scenes...
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CrackBerry Live: Interview with the inventor of BBM, Gary Klassen!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 14 May 2013 7:28 pm
On the day when BlackBerry announced that BBM is going cross platform to support both iOS and Android, we had the lucky opportunity to sit down with Gary Klassen. If you're not familiar with Gary Klassen, you should read this article we posted back in 2011, where we gave Gary the CrackBerry salute for being the Inventor of BlackBerry Messenger. That's right, Gary literally wrote version 1.0...
BlackBerry CEO interview: 'I cannot complain about carrier support'
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BlackBerry CEO interview: 'I cannot complain about carrier support'

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 25 Mar 2013 12:00 pm
It doesn't matter how good a new phone is - if it doesn't have support from carriers, the odds of it becoming a success in a crowded phone market are slim to none. The biggest cost associated with a phone over its life is the bill paid to the carrier each month, and the carrier has a lot of power to influence what phone a customer will ultimately purchase. Granted, many people know exactly what...
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CrackBerry video interview with BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 22 Mar 2013 2:42 pm
With the Z10 officially arriving in the USA this week, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was on location in New York City to celebrate the launch and spread the word via the US media that BlackBerry is back. The CrackBerry team is also in NYC right now, so we were able to drop by Thorsten's hotel room on the eve of the launch and spend twenty minutes talking about the US launch and a whole lot...

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