And the winner of the CrackBerry.com BEST of WES 2007 "MUST HAVE APPLICATION AWARD"  is.... the envelope please .... SimulSays SimulSays is the kind of application that will actually change your life - you will never login to your voicemail ever again.  SimulSays uses cutting edge voice recognition technology to convert your voicemail messages into text (voicemail messages are converted to...

Research in Motion is under somebody's thumb and can’t get a break. The maker of our beloved BlackBerry is now getting hauled into court by The Rolling Stones of all people. Mick, Keith, Ron and Charlie were allegedly signed to promote a special version on the BlackBerry but the deal was never followed through. Presumably it was a BlackBerry with a big tongue and lips on it with an extra...

And the winner of the CrackBerry.com BEST of WES 2007 "It's About Crack'n Time Award"  is.... the envelope please .... Yahoo! Go That's right. When I walked away from the Yahoo booth at WES 2007 I was from then on a changed man. For some people, this award might come as a bit of a shock, as it's old news - Yahoo! Go with integrated services for BlackBerry became available over a year ago....

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The Boy Genius Report clearly has someone on the inside these days as his latest report indicates that the new consumer friendly BlackBerry might be replacing the Pearl as early as September of this year. The BlackBerry 8120 will have five new color choices(black, red, blue, titanium and gold), a two megapixel camera, GPS, and WiFi. TBG didn’t have confirmation on a US carrier but was...

Chalk Media Corp. today announced that it has developed a mobile version of its 'Chalkboard' online training software to work on the BlackBerry. This software enables the rapid creation of media-rich and enterprise-controlled mobile content that can be pushed securely to wireless handheld devices and tracked. Chalk showed off its new mobile software at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in...

Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie said  the sort of problem that led to the BlackBerry shutdown last month “will never happen again.” Balsillie offered up the promise in a rare interview that will appear in eWeek this week. Balsillie called the event that shut down e-mail for BlackBerries in the United States last month “a process thing.”  The RIM VIP explained the outage was the...

Yesterday, Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington State signed into law a ban on 'D.W.T.', or 'Driving While Texting'. The law applies to all mobile devices, including the BlackBerry. Says Governor Gregoire: "Would you read a book or newspaper while you were driving? No!... Then why would you text while driving?" Other states have already banned talking on cellphones behind the wheel,...

Another big announcement from WES has Research in Motion showing off its BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS), which promises to make the BlackBerry an extension of an enterprise's PBX system. RIM announced at a Tuesday session at the Orlando symposium that the MVS “would enable access to PBX functionality through a new intuitive menu interface.” It was also allow users to have one "Reach...