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CrackBerry Live: We talk BlackBerry with ING DIRECT Canada

Posted by Adam Zeis on 18 May 2013 8:10 am
Chatting with the BlackBerry Achievement Award winners, we took some time to talk to Vinay Venugopal who is the Director of IT Strategy at ING DIRECT Canada. A winner in the category of Putting Customers First, ING makes it secure and easy for customers to conduct transactions using BlackBerry 10. The app allows for easy banking that includes "orange alerts" and even integrates with the...
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CrackBerry Live: Mobile Innovation of the Year Winner DIRECTV

Posted by Adam Zeis on 18 May 2013 7:57 am
The BlackBerry Achievement awards were announced during BlackBerry Live 2013 and we had a chance to chat with a few of the winners, one of which being DIRECTV. A winner in the category of Mobile Innovation of the Year, DIRECTV has deployed their app to the over 4,000 employees in the company. The app allows technicians to manage an entire service call and work order process from their phones...
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CrackBerry Live: New Rubik's Cube game for BlackBerry 10 kicking classic puzzle up a notch

Posted by Simon Sage on 17 May 2013 1:45 pm
The Rubik's cube is one of those timeless, classic toys that you don't expect one can mess around with much, but you may change your mind after seeing Magmic's treatment on BlackBerry 10. We talked with Phil Giroux from Magmic at BlackBerry Live 2013 about their upcoming adaptation which has the standard 3 x 3 x 3 puzzle mode we're all familiar with, but they've also tossed in a 4 x 4 x 4...
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CrackBerry Live: Scoping out new games coming from the maker of Alpha Zero

Posted by Simon Sage on 17 May 2013 12:47 pm
We got to check out some new games from Funkoi at BlackBerry Live 2013 this week, and they're a decidedly different direction than what they currently offer with Alpha Zero. 3 Little Kingdoms launched not too long ago, which is a base defense game where players have to produce and command waves of troops to clash against an opposing side. For all of its 2D graphics, there are some very...
BlackBerry Jam: Build a native application in under an hour
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BlackBerry Jam: Build a native application in under an hour

Posted by Alicia Erlich on 17 May 2013 11:31 am
Heading in BlackBerry Live and the subsequent Jam Sessions I was a bit nervous. One of the reasons I made the trek from New York all the way down to Florida was to expand my coding skills and try my hand at learning Cascades. Now I had never used C++ or QML before nor did I have any experience with JavaScript so it did seem a bit intimidating going into the Cascades 101 sessions. However, all...
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CrackBerry Live: Checking out the latest BB10 game from the creator of Pixelated

Posted by Simon Sage on 16 May 2013 4:12 pm
Pixelated fans will want to check out the next game from creator Ebscer. Eric Harty was showing off Starbeams at BlackBerry Live 2013, a simple yet challenging puzzle game where players have to assign colors to points in a shape so that no two of them connected by a line are the same. It's pretty hard once you get to the later levels. We also chatted with Eric about his general impressions...
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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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Tour of the awesome BlackBerry Keep Moving Van

Posted by Adam Zeis on 16 May 2013 3:36 pm
The BlackBerry Keep Moving Tour is in full swing, bring BlackBerry 10 love to everyone across the globe. The most notable and high-profile vessel for the tour are those awesome vans that we've seen more than a few times now. They are popping up all over major cities in the US and showing off the BlackBerry Z10. Manned with a staff of BlackBerry experts, anyone can jump in the van and learn...
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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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