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BlackBerry Job Board on the way!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 27 Mar 2007 5:51 am
BlackBerry Job Board on the way!

CrackBerry.com & Jobcoin.com will soon be launching a job board for Blackberry professionals.  If your company is looking to hire Blackberry admins, developers, support staff, or sales/marketing staff in the BlackBerry space – we think the CrackBerry audience is an ideal place to search.  If you have immediate positions to fill, contact phartge@jobcoin.com about posting a job right away so...

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RIM and Gameloft Team Up With Game Offerings

Posted by Kevin Hill on 26 Mar 2007 9:51 pm
RIM and Gameloft Team Up With Game Offerings

Europe’s largest game provider for mobile phones announced today that it is getting in on the CrackBerry revolution. Gameloft has announced that the first of a number of games for BlackBerry will be released. Asphalt Urban GT2, Lost, New York Nights, Midnight Pool, Block Breaker Deluxe and The Prince of Persia:The Two Thrones will be the first six games on offer with the promise of more to...

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Idokorro's new Citrix Presentation Client is a Hit!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 26 Mar 2007 4:43 pm
Idokorro's new Citrix Presentation Client is a Hit!

I just touched base with the marketing director over at Idokorro to see how the release of their highly anticipated Citrix Presenation Server Client is going. The early results are in and it looks like Idokorro is going to score another slam dunk! The product launched this morning and the application has already received a lot of downloads and a lot of purchases (the numbers impressed me - and...

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Texas Hold 'Em Kings 2 Multiplayer Tournament

Posted by kasperapd on 25 Mar 2007 10:47 pm
Texas Hold 'Em Kings 2 Multiplayer Tournament

Attention all crackberry gaming addicts. There is a new Texas Hold 'Em Kings 2 Multiplayer Tournament available for download. This claims to be the largest ever Blackberry Tournament. There are some great prizes being offered including two trips to Orlando, Florida with a seat in bplay's LIVE tourny at WES2007. Go to mobile.blackberry.com from your device to download the game. Let the fun...

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Could CrackBerry Addiction Actually Cost You Money?

Posted by Kevin Hill on 25 Mar 2007 3:02 pm
Could CrackBerry Addiction Actually Cost You Money?

If you are in the UK and you use a BlackBerry come tax time you might be in for a surprise. And not a good one according to some tax accountants. And if it works in the UK, the IRS and Revenue Canada will be looking closely at Britian’s new tax measures with anticipation. BlackBerries allow you to be available 24/7 and make it easy for you to interact with your office from wherever and...

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Research in Motion to Sponsor Formula 1?

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 23 Mar 2007 3:28 pm

This isn't even a rumor because I just made it up. It's Friday afternoon, and I just came across the greatest commercial ever to be made (just released this week) and needed a corresponding story so I had a reason to put it on the site. Below is the Shell/Ferrari commercial that celebrates their 60 year relationship together. They shot the commercial in some of the greatest cities in the world...

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Airtel & RIM bring the BlackBerry 8800 to India

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 23 Mar 2007 2:48 pm
Airtel & RIM bring the BlackBerry 8800 to India

The BlackBerry 8800 is making its way around the world in near record time. Airtel and RIM this week announced the introduction of the the BlackBerry 8800 to India. "We are very excited to bring the innovative and feature-rich BlackBerry 8800 to India for our high-end customers,” said Sanjay Kapoor, President, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel. “They will get an opportunity to experience a world...

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Beware the BlackBerry Addict in the Office?!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 23 Mar 2007 8:57 am
Beware the BlackBerry Addict in the Office?!

The Nanaimo Daily News published a short blackberry piece in their local paper this morning that I thought made an interesting point - basically that Loose Lips Sink Ships and BlackBerry Addicts have the Loosest Lips of them all. Here are some of the bits by Howard Levitt: ... Employees are using PDAs while driving, walking on the street, at restaurants, bars, and even at the gym. Many...

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Managers Can Help With BlackBerry Addiction

Posted by Kevin Hill on 21 Mar 2007 11:44 am
Managers Can Help With BlackBerry Addiction

We at CrackBerry.com have a BlackBerry addiction problem and we are OK with that. It’s kind of our job. But what if you are an employer and your entire staff is addicted? What if your team’s productivity is being negatively impacted by overuse of personal devices, excessive e-mail checking and time wasting messaging? Then you have a problem. It is not just a time management issue either....

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Dont Get Caught DWT - Driving While Texting

Posted by Kevin Hill on 19 Mar 2007 6:36 pm
Dont Get Caught DWT - Driving While Texting

We have heard of DWI (driving while intoxicated) but legislators are now trying to make DWT (driving while texting) an offence. This is of special interest to BlackBerry users who are being singled out by both legislatures and insurance companies as especially bad examples of the new and dangerous trend. To most people it would make sense. Trying to type on the small keypad of a phone or...

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RIM in Release Mode

Posted by Kevin Hill on 19 Mar 2007 12:38 pm
RIM in Release Mode

I think I have suitably recovered from my green beer induced haze and recovered my BlackBerry from the bottom of the spittoon at the local Irish pub. Durable little puppies those CrackBerries. The BoyGeniusReport is claiming this morning the new BlackBerry 8300 (right) is due to be released by AT&T in just three to four weeks. This is following fast on the heels of the newly released...

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"Crackberry Thumb" Sufferers You Have Hope

Posted by Jack Benney on 15 Mar 2007 10:02 pm

If you are like me and most crackberry addicts, you probably suffer from the physical condition known as "Crackberry Thumb" or "Crackberryitus". We crackberry addicts have had to silence our cries, swallow our pride and suck up the agonizing pain we feel in our thumbs. Until now... Graceful Services, a premier day spa located in New York City, is now offering relief for us poor crackberry...

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NewsGator Go! for BlackBerry released

Posted by Kevin Hill on 15 Mar 2007 11:32 am
NewsGator Go! for BlackBerry released

Some people love RSS feeds, others don’t. Some people want a need to have up to the minute news from a variety of sources, while others find it too much information to manage. But if you are one of the former then managing you feeds is now becoming much easier. And now you can successfully manage those feeds on your BlackBerry. The team from NewsGator has released NewsGator Go! for BlackBerry...

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Blackberry Browser Client-Side Denial of Service Vulnerability

Posted by Jack Benney on 14 Mar 2007 9:49 pm

A security advisory was released earlier this evening which alerted to a new Blackberry browser client-side denial of service vulnerability that effects various blackberry devices with the BlackBerry Device Software version 4.2 and prior. This DoS is the result of the way the Blackberry browser handles certain excessively long URLs that can cause the device to slow down and possibly come to a...

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Canadians join 21st Century

Posted by Kevin Hill on 14 Mar 2007 9:48 am
Canadians join 21st Century

Congratulations Canadians! Today, you join the rest of the world and enjoy the benefits of portable cell phone numbers. Yep, you will be able to give your provider the boot if you wish and still keep your number. And this applies to BlackBerries too. On March 14, Canadian providers finally flip over to Wireless Network Portablity (WNP). And Canadians will have the opportunity to switch those...

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Knowing Your 8800 From Your 8820?!

Posted by Kevin Hill on 13 Mar 2007 11:35 am
Knowing Your 8800 From Your 8820?!

RIM have a bit of habit of giving their devices very similar sounding numbered names. We at CrackBerry.com try to keep up and pretty well know our 8800 from our 8820 but to the rest of the world it can be confusing. RIM have tried to keep their business oriented devices in one category and their consumer oriented in another but the numbering is confusing to everyone. For example, there are...

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RIM and AT&T announce RED BlackBerry Pearl

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 12 Mar 2007 10:07 pm
RIM and AT&T announce RED BlackBerry Pearl

Last week rumors emerged that a new BlackBerry Pearl would soon be released. Today, those rumors were confirmed with an annoucement by RIM & AT&T that a new red hot BlackBerry Pearl will soon be hitting the market. "The BlackBerry Pearl is a powerful and feature-rich phone and yet it is also amazingly small, elegant and easy-to-use," said Mike Woodward, executive director, mobile...

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CrackBerry Gadgets

Posted by Remik Szul on 12 Mar 2007 2:32 pm
CrackBerry Gadgets

So I'm eating my healthy chunky soup meal of champions in the office on my lunch hour, reading an old issue of Popular Science (Yes, I'm a Geek) when I stumbled upon something cool that caught my eye. You can actually build your own USB device charger for less than $15. Better yet, how about it be in a snazzy looking Altoids Gum Tin package. That’s right, over at The Original Electroids Co,...

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Lazaridis, Balsillie Make Forbes Billionaire List

Posted by Kevin Hill on 11 Mar 2007 8:04 pm
Lazaridis, Balsillie Make Forbes Billionaire List

Last week we at CrackBerry reported the accounting woes of RIM and how Jim Balsillie stepped down as Chairman (he remains co-CEO). But we are thinking he probably isn’t losing a lot of sleep. On Friday, Forbes Magazine published their annual list of the world’s richest people and guess who showed up? The founders of Research In Motion, and the creators of the BlackBerry, Mike Lazaridis and...

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RIM Fallout Continues

Posted by Kevin Hill on 7 Mar 2007 4:14 pm
RIM Fallout Continues

The fall out from the big accounting mess announced on Monday by Research In Motion continues. RIM, makers of the BlackBerry released the results of a seven-month internal review on Monday, saying it identified hundreds of options granted to employees between 2002 and 2006 that were issued with “incorrect measurement dates” Employees were given the right to acquire as many as 4.6 million...

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