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A lot of BlackBerry developers who travelled to Orlando to attend BlackBerry 10 Jam were left feeling excited for the future of BlackBerry development after the event. Alec Saunders gave the keynote speech for BlackBerry 10 Jam but recording was not allowed within the auditorium. However, RIM themselves filmed the keynote but have only previously released snippets of it.

If you've been wanting and waiting for the whole keynote to be released, you'll be happy to know that it is now available to watch in it's entirety. I have just watched it and it definitely gets my pumped up for the upcoming BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour

During the general session keynote at BlackBerry World 2012, RIM CIO Robin Bienfait took the stage to talk about BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, BlackBerry Business Cloud Services, and other Enterprise-related details. She also talked a bit on bringing the Mobile Fusion services to the cloud within the next year (which is pretty awesome). It was the we have seen Robin on stage, so take a look to see what went down.

If you missed out yesterdays BlackBerry World 2012 General Session keynote then you’ll want to check out the video above. RIM has made the full version available for your viewing pleasure. The keynote includes RIM CEO Thorsten Heins and other members of RIM’s executive team demonstrating the new features of the BlackBerry 10 operating system.

The session also includes guests from Salesforce.com, Gameloft, FishLabs, and a few others who are working with RIM to build the application ecosystem, as well as ensure that the new OS is ready for users around the globe. So grab a drink and kick up your feet as you're about to watch over 30 minutes of BlackBerry awesomeness.

BlackBerry World 2012

If you aren't here in Orlando for BlackBerry World 2012, don't worry because there is plenty of coverage coming your way. Tomorrow at 9am ET you can watch along with us as RIM will be streaming the keynote iive once again, and the Crack Team will be live blogging as well. As RIM CEO Thorsten Heins takes the stage for his first BlackBerry World, we'll most likely see a good amount of BlackBerry 10 and hopefully a surprise or two along the way. So block off your calendar and tune in Tuesday starting at 9am ET (we'll post a link to the live stream as soon as we have one).

BlackBerry DevCon Europe Keynote

if you missed our coverage of the BlackBerry DevCon Europe General Session Keynote yesterday, not to worry. RIM has posted up a replay of the entire keynote for your viewing pleasure. Some good stuff to be had within as Thorsten Heins, Alec Saunders, Chris Smith and many partners took the stage in Amsterdam to show off some goods. If you have a few hours to kill it's definitely worth checking out. So grab a cup of coffee (or beer if that's more your thing) and hit the link below. Be sure to keep following all of our coverage from BlackBerry DevCon Europe.

Check out the BlackBerry DevCon Europe General Session Replay

DevCon General Session 1

If you've seen the blogs today, you likely already know what all was (and wasn't) announced during the General Sessions at BlackBerry DevCon this morning. However I know there are many of you out there that really wanted to watch but couldn't break away from work or couldn't stay for the whole day to catch it all, so you will be happy to hear that RIM has both sessions posted as of this evening.

Watch the General Sessions from DevCon 2011

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Shortly after RIM's Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis gave his general assembly keynote at Mobile World Congress yesterday (view that video), he jumped over to App Planet to talk to the developers in attendance at BlackBerry Developer day.

In addition to rallying the BlackBerry developer troops with some BlackBerry facts and figures, Mike gave some advice to developers about remembering to look for opportunities in enterprise in addition to embracing the growing demand for consumer apps. Makes sense. Whereas consumers are looking for apps to be cheap (and preferably free) businesses are willing to pay for apps that add value to their organizations. In fact, just a little while ago at MWC here I ran into an individual from the IMGA (International Mobile Gaming Awards) team who gave me the stat that apparently only 9% of iPhone App developers are actually making money right now. The vast majority are still looking at iPhone apps as an investment vs. as a money maker, which adds some validation to this notion.

One other stat that Lazaridis made note of that REALLY caught my attention is that RIM makes 2 BlackBerry Smartphones every second. Multiply that out. That's 2 x 60 x 60 x 24 = 172,800 phones manufactured each day. That would equal 15.5 million phones in a quarter. RIM's official stat was that they shipped over 10 million phones in their last quarter. My guess is that Mike Lazaridis rounded up slightly to the two figure (or maybe RIM doesn't manufacturer quite 24/7), but either way, RIM is pumping out phones like crazy. In comparison, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday during an MWC address made note that 60,000 android-based phones are being sold each day and that number is growing. All in all, it really goes to show that the adoption of smartphones in the marketplace is ramping up as is the competition. It's going to be an interesting couple of years ahead!

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress has been a busy one for RIM, with BlackBerry Developer Day taking place at the App Planet venue (looked like a great turnout when I was there!) and RIM's Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis taking center stage in this morning's keynote session. I grabbed Mike L's keynote on video so you can kick back and watch all of today's announcement like you were there in the crowd. 

In addition to announcing BES Express and giving us a glimpse of RIM's new WebKit browser, Mike Lazaridis introduced RIM's take on Super Apps (more on that to come in another post/podcast) and also spent time in the beginning reinforcing that spectrum is a finite resource and that RIM continues to care about respecting a carrier's bandwidth in its focus on data efficiency. Check it out and be sure to drop your thoughts in the comments. Enjoy the show!