Another great week at CrackBerry! Lots of good stuff going on... Especially if you've been waiting for the Remote Stereo Gateway! It's now available at ShopCrackBerry for $69.95! Turn it on and tune it up :) I digress... on to the roundup! NEW SOFTWARE BBVeesta Theme for BlackBerry Windows Vista fans this theme is for you. Designed to give the look and feel of vista, the...
Of interest to BlackBerry developers... RIM today announced a BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) plug-in for Eclipse - a new development tool that enables Eclipse developers to create and test robust wireless applications for the BlackBerry platform seamlessly from within the familiar Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The plug-in will enable Eclipse developers...
Lots to talk about this week. I've gone ahead and added a new 'cool' section to our weekly roundup. If you're a golfer you will want to scroll down to check it out this week :) NEW SOFTWARE Cortado Fax for BlackBerry For a lot of businesses, faxes still play an important part of their business communication. The Cortado Fax Premium service provides you with a reliable and...
For all BlackBerry users over in India, it's time to hold your breath (but not for too long). Reports all over the web are surfacing that the Indian Government is demanding RIM either allows it to decrypt all emails or shut down the entire Indian Berry network at the end of this month. The Indian government wants to monitor all incoming and outgoing BlackBerry email in the country. That...
Our friends at SearchMobileComputing had a chance recently to sit down with Mike Lazaridis at the Gartner's Wireless and Mobile Summit in Chicago. The conversation was quite interesting, touching on the outages and new competition from the iPhone. When asked about the recent outages, Lazaridis replied: "We got a lot of criticism as to why we couldn't tell what happened within the...
Puretracks is a large music provider... They have contracts with many of the big labels including Sony, EMI and Universal to name a few. They have the 'ammunition' to launch a killer store... and now it looks like the dream is becoming a reality. This new store will be dubbed 'Puretracks Mobile Edition' and will be available for use to all of us BlackBerry 8100, 8300 and 8800 series...
Poinstreak is a new app that allows users to record live game stats during live sporting events and deliver game info to the net via the BlackBerry. The advantage of Poinstreak is league or game scorekeepers can record game stats as they happen from their BlackBerry and deliver them instantly to the internet OTA. Cool! Prior to this new app, the only other somewhat cool option to...
Looks like more details are starting to emerge regarding the highly anticipated BlackBerry 9000... Thanks to the CeBIT Fair over in Hannover, Germany this past week. The RIM booth had some very juicy details to share with the crowds on the exhibition floor. It has been reported that all devices at the show were running OS 4.5 and all were running smooth with the exception of the 8700...
As always, it's been another busy week here at CrackBerry.com. Lots of new apps and themes to talk about today... Some available in our software store, others out and about on the web! Lets get right down to it! NEW SOFTWARE Major League Baseball Widgets for BlackBerry Baseball season is upon us. If you're a big baseball fan you're going to want to install this on your Berry....
Over the past 24 hours or so, rumors have been roaring back and forth all over the web that HTML email may indeed be removed from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP5. Now, let me say first off that I have no way of confirming or denying this... Everything I've heard and read is strictly rumor at this point. The rumor was propelled into the mainstream by our good friend Jibi...
It's been quite a hectic week here at CrackBerry! We've launched a few new CrackBerry apps, and so far they've been getting great reviews. The BlackBerry PIN Exchange and Viigo - CrackBerry.com Edition are both available as free downloads. If you haven't tried these yet I recommend you do. I'll touch more on these a little later in the Roundup. But enough chit-chat for now, lets get...
Here's a quickie from a Reuters article I just read. In South Korea, mobile operator KTF is using some interesting technology as a lie detector. What a great story post-Valentine's day! (Remember this for next year!) It's called 'Love Detector' and it analyzes voice patterns to see if the person in question is lying or telling the truth. From the Reuters Article: The "Love Detector"...
Our 'Friendly Neighborhood Rogers Guy' dropped us a quick note this afternoon to tell us about the following offer from Rogers... Effective February 13, 2008, new Rogers Blackberry customers can choose from one of the following offers: Buy one Blackberry device and get up to 4 BlackBerry 8700’s for $0 when they and sign up for a 3-year term with Voice and Data. OR Buy one...
This is a quick update for those of you that are subscribed (or thinking of subscribing) to the Zagat To Go software. It has been updated from version 5 to version 6.0 and is now available at ShopCrackBerry.com. With Zagat To Go you can check the ratings and rankings for more than 30,000 restaurants, nightspots, hotels and golf courses in hundreds of cities worldwide. You can also do...
The global mobile social network that is mig33 announced yesterday software for the BlackBerry that will allow us to utilize mig33's mobile social networking tools. The release is a planned first step in their program designed to optimize the service for the U.S. market. Says co-founder and CEO of mig33 Steven Goh: "The U.S. mobile phone market is unique from what's happening in the...
Pipeline Data Inc. has announced yesterday that its AIRCHARGE subsidiary has released a bluetooth card swipe and printer solution. The AirBluePro works on BlackBerry devices operating on the Sprint and Nextel networks. This type of bluetooth payment solution is often found in taxis, delivery trucks and on the trade show floor. Basically anywhere that it is hard to access standard...
The BlackBerry can be used for more than just business these days. In fact, in southern Ontario they are now being used to save lives. BlackBerry-carrying specialists at St. Mary's Regional Cardiac Centre and Waterloo Region EMS can now receive crucial data from paramedics to determine if heart attack victims should be rushed in for life-saving angioplasty. It is thought this system...
BlackBerry Unite is a cool software you can install on your PC. We've mentioned it before on CrackBerry.com with its launch overseas. We're still waiting for it in North America, and it should be worth the wait - allowing you to administer up to 5 devices. Handy if you are a true addict! You can use the app to wipe devices, restrict phone usage, SMS, web browse and share calendar and...
The staff at Canada's immigration agency in Ottawa have been asked to turn off their Berry's at lunch and at night. This move was made to help 'balance their lives'. 'Operating Rules' have been set by Richard Fadden, the Canadian deputy minister of Citizenship and Immigration. The rules insist that staffers turn their BlackBerry devices off (in fact, it's a 'blackout') between 7PM and...
BlackBerry Tracker is a free web-based GPS client for the BlackBerry. It even functions as an anti-theft app too (cool!). You can click here to see how it works, but I'll give you a quick breakdown here. First, register an account here. This creates a profile for you on their website. The profile links your BlackBerry device to you. After this you need to activate your account. Check...