Hail, hail the gang's all here!

For Wednesday night we played our cards right and managed to get everyone from the CrackBerry team that is here in Orlando on to the podcast. Kevin, Bla1ze and I were joined by two James', Alicia, DJ, Simon and Brian to talk about everything that went down at BlackBerry Live on Wednesday. In addition we got to know each of the CB writers a bit more. 

Since we had a good 24 hours to ponder things a bit we also recapped much of what was announced during the keynote and everyone got a chance to pitch in their thoughts. 

Even our good friend Rene Ritchie had his time under the lights as he showed us the new Google Hangout app for iOS and what it means for cross-platform BBM. 

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The BlackBerry Q10: Conference tested, blogger approved

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Ten Important Observations from BlackBerry Live 2013

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