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Netflix CEO hasn't touched a BlackBerry 10 device
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Netflix CEO hasn't touched a BlackBerry 10 device

Posted by Simon Sage on 20 May 2013 3:45 pm
In a recent interview, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings commented on his smartphone usage, and particularly on BlackBerry 10.  CP: You've been quoted as saying that you're always trying out a new smartphone or tablet to keep up on new technology. Have you tried one of the new BlackBerry 10 devices yet? Hastings: No. Like many people I was a BlackBerry addict from 1997 or 1998 through to the iPhone...
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CrackBerry Live: Bringing Office 365 and SharePoint to BlackBerry 10

Posted by Simon Sage on 19 May 2013 2:36 am
We noticed the harmon.ie announcement at BlackBerry Live 2013 for Office 365 and SharePoint coming to BB10, so we met up with the co-founder and CEO Yaacov Cohen to get a closer look. Harmon.ie sits on BES 10.1, allowing its users to access all sorts of day-to-day Office 365 information securely, as well as tapping into the SharePoint cloud collaboration service. Harmon.ie also supports...
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CrackBerry Live: Interview with CB10's developer, Marcus Adolfsson

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 18 May 2013 10:27 am
The CrackBerry team was super excited to have our very own CB10 app win Best Built for BlackBerry App in the BlackBerry Developer Community awards this week at BlackBerry Live. Following up on our sweet, sweet victory, we got Marcus Adolfsson up on the CrackBerry Live stage the next day to talk about the coding the award-winning CB10 app and where it's going from here. For those who don't...
Download the NY Times app and get full access free through June
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Download the NY Times app and get full access free through June

Posted by DJ Reyes on 17 May 2013 12:18 pm
The New York Times app has been available since the BlackBerry 10 launch. It's free to download and there are free articles that you can browse and then you had to subscribe to get access to other content like videos and slides. It's a pretty decent app built natively and also allows you to easily share articles to your favorite social media sites. It even includes push notifications. Right now...
Load up on some great apps and themes with MMMOOO's Mega Sale (select regions)
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Load up on some great apps and themes with MMMOOO's Mega Sale (select regions)

Posted by Alicia Erlich on 17 May 2013 11:59 am
Popular theme and application developer MMMOOO let us know that from now until May 22 they are holding their Mega Sale. They have chosen eight of their best selling apps and themes to be offered at the low price of $0.99. Unfortunately, there is one caveat to this sale. The promotion is only available in the Asia Pacific, Africa (except South Africa), and Middle Eastern Regions for compatible ...
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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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Need a reference tool for web development? Check out Web Design Cheat Sheet

Posted by James Richardson on 16 May 2013 3:02 pm
This one will appeal to a niche market, but if you are looking to get into web development then it's well worth checking out. The application is essentially a Web Design Cheat Sheet which is a reference tool for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript which gives: Useful Information Syntax Examples Documentation Site Feeds I must admit that...
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Hands on with Gadget Box on the BlackBerry Q10 and a chat with the developer

Posted by James Richardson on 16 May 2013 2:01 pm
Here at BlackBerry Live I bumped into James O'Connor - the developer behind Gadget Box for BlackBerry 10. With the app recently being updated, now with Q10 support, I thought it was too good an opportunity not to have a chat with him and get his thoughts on why he created the app and what the future holds. As you will see from the above video, James is very much intending to keep the...
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First Look: Pebble smartwatch working with BlackBerry 10

Posted by Adam Zeis on 16 May 2013 1:48 pm
While we still have plenty of content to come from BlackBerry Live 2013, we're breaking things down and getting ready to head back home. We've had plenty of great chats and interviews with a slew of developers and BlackBerry fans, and while we certainly didn't get to talk to everyone, we did get lucky that Ritesh swung by the CrackBerry Live stage before we left. Even though we had it mostly...
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CrackBerry Live: Igor Smirnoff talks up buying newspapers on BlackBerry 10

Posted by Simon Sage on 16 May 2013 1:04 pm
PressReader was one of my favorite news apps for BlackBerry 10, and the fine folks that made it managed to find their way to our BlackBerry Live 2013 stage. Igor Smirnoff, their VP of Digital, walked us through the app, and hinted at some pretty exciting stuff that's coming down the pipe.  PressReader allows users to either subscribe to their massive international catalogue of newspapers, or...

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