The next winner in the CrackBerry.com BEST of WES 2007 awards has pulled in THREE accolades, winning the "BEST ACCESSORY AWARD", "BEST FREEBIE GIVEN OUT AT WES AWARD" and "BUSIEST BOOTH AT THE SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE AWARD". The envelope please .... and the winner is .... the OtterBOX BlackBerry 8700 Series Case The OtterBox BlackBerry 8700 Series Case is a heavy-duty case that...
The CEO of CrackBerry Meets the CEO of BlackBerry The 2007 Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) is now a part of history. For those who don’t know, WES is an annual event hosted by Research in Motion that brings together more than 3,000 IT professionals and business executives from around the globe and presents the latest information to help organizations define and implement wireless...
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...
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...
Wednesday Morning, WES has already begun for the day, and I'm an hour behind schedule on making my way out of the hotel room and back to the conference. Why the slow start? Free booze at last night's WES party which took place at the Hard Rock Cafe. I think RIM actually discovered the cure for CrackBerry Addiction - free booze! During the day there were 3,000 of us walking around...
I have 30 minutes until the Solutions Showcase opens up (a.k.a. exhibit of hundreds of vendors), so I found a little corner in the Brass Lounge and it's time for a quick update. WES started off this morning at 8:30am to a crowd of about 3,000 blackberry addicts. Crawford Del Prete, from the IDC, kicked things off, and from their RIM's founder and co-ceo Mike Lazaridis took the stage....
Tom sent this to me the other day to get up on CrackBerry.com if I saw fit - it's a good piece of CrackBerry humor based on the "Great BlackBerry Outage of 2007" (as I like to call it), and even better, guess what website helped Tom get through his near-tragic day?! Read to the end to find out... The day my Blackberry almost died By: Tom Watkins. Originally Published: Northville...
With yesterday's spur of the moment decision to attend next week's Wireless Enterprise Symposium came today's realization that I had better be easy to spot in a crowd! Over the past couple of months I have gotten to know a lot of people in the BlackBerry World, but communication has always been over the phone or via email or blackberry messenger. Next week I will have the pleasure...
The plane ticket is booked, the hotel room is reserved, and I am going to the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in sunny Orlando, Florida!!!!! I'll be arriving in Orlando late Monday evening (May 7th), and will be departing Friday morning. While I'm there I hope to meet as many people from the BlackBerry World as possible. And of course I'll be reporting back to CrackBerry.com regularly...
In my ongoing quest to maintain a healthy balance between CrackBerry addiction and other parts of my life, I have named 2007 to be my Year of Fitness. So far I have been doing pretty well - in the cold winter months I managed to exercise regularly at the gym and 98.6% of the time have even been able to pass up the Golden Arches in favor of healthy homecooked eats. But now that spring...
May 1st is here and members of CrackBerry.com know what that means... it's time to announce the winner of the Pimp My Berry early bird draw for the Confess Your BlackBerry Addiction and WIN Giveaway (now that's a mouthful). And the winner of $500USD to spend in the CrackBerry.com Store is.......... rwmutton Member rwmutton will be contacted by yours truly to hook up the shopping...
With Mother's Day JUST around corner (for those who have forgot it's coming up on Sunday, May 13th), it is time to start thinking Gifts for Mom. While the beauty of flowers as a gift cannot be disputed for the "typical" mom, I'd argue a blackberry use'n and abuse'n mother would MUCH prefer something for her blackberry that's PINK. The good news for those thinking about buying a pink...
CrackBerry.com has been online now for nearly two months (seems like we have been around forever doesn't it?) and while we have accomplished a lot on our way to establishing the #1 site for BlackBerry users on the web, the Crack Team still has a lot of items left to check off on the CrackBerry.com To Do list. But I'm happy to announce we checked one more item off the list yesterday...
The following was posted in the CrackBerry Forums in the Confess Your BlackBerry Addiction thread by a young member of CrackBerry.com community. I thought it would make a nice post to get the weekend started. In fact, I think I'm going to get a new blog category created on this site called "CrackBerry Confessions" and we'll post some of the best stories we hear in the forums to it...
It looks like the Men with BlackBerries have finally come forward and offered an explanation for the Great BlackBerry Outage of 2007. The cause? It was the installation of an insufficiently tested piece of software that set off a chain reaction through RIM's systems which quickly escalated into leaving five million BlackBerry users in North America without wireless email and web...
Updated: Since approximately 7:15pm EST last night, reports have been coming in that Research in Motion is suffering a major outage all over the United States. Initial reports thought the problem was with local carriers, but as the issue has begun to unfold it is becoming clear that the problem lies within RIM's data network. In addition to U.S. carriers, Rogers in Canada has been...
Something free to get your Friday started right... CrackBerry.com in its partnership with TradePub is pleased to offer a Free Video Case Study entitled "Who is Mobilizing with BlackBerry?". This short video highlights BlackBerry customers in government and SMB using the wireless capabilities of BlackBerry for more than just email applications (and no, they are not using it to play...
If you're a regular visitor to the site, you probably noticed last week that we made some changes to our main menu. In addition to the cool forums widget at the top right hand corner of the site that pulls the latest action in the forums, we've also introduced two new content areas - Job Board and Publications. You'll be hearing more about the job board in the days ahead, but today I...
Congratulations to our Early Bird Winners in the "Confess your BlackBerry Addiction and WIN Giveaway". Member mousie won the "Give Me a Taste" prize of $250USD to spend in the CrackBerry.com store. Our "Fridays in March"winners each pick up $30USD to spend in the CrackBerry.com store as well! We still have two HUGE prizes to giveaway, so if you are not in the contest yet, get CRACK'n...
Laptops are out. BlackBerries are in. If you haven't heard of or seen the ShowMate yet, the odds are you soon will. In case you didn't know, the Impacta ShowMate is pocket-sized device that weighs less than three ounces that enables mobile professionals to travel with nothing more than a wireless handheld on their hip and a ShowMate in their pocket. Full-featured PowerPoint...
