After the announcement of the BlackBerry Achievement Award winners, PriceCheck Mobile, who took home the app of the year award swung by CrackBerry Live to give us a walkthrough of their offerings. Andre W. de Wet, General Manager, PriceCheck guided us through it all and explained why their app is doing so well in South Africa, possible expansion plans and and winning the BlackBerry...
The BlackBerry Keep Moving Tour is in full swing, bring BlackBerry 10 love to everyone across the globe. The most notable and high-profile vessel for the tour are those awesome vans that we've seen more than a few times now. They are popping up all over major cities in the US and showing off the BlackBerry Z10. Manned with a staff of BlackBerry experts, anyone can jump in the van and...
Faxing is still a thing!
Everyone has stress in their lives and for some folks listening to some soothing sounds helps relax situations. Stopping by CrackBerry Live was Till Adam, Services Director at KDAB, to show us some apps he's been working on with Samadhi Group and Tasia Valenza. The apps are beautifully designed and if you enjoy tuning out the world in an attempt to regain some sanity, they should do the...
While a lot of focus at BlackBerry Live was placed on BlackBerry 10 apps, there's still plenty of BlackBerry OS developers out there. One long standing app in the community is Tazzle IT. Bruce Haendel, CEO Tazzle It, stopped by the CrackBerry Live stage to give us a run through of what his app does, how it can be used and where people can get it. Tazzle IT offers its customers a...
At BlackBerry Live 2013, we had the chance to talk with a QNX veteran and colleague to Dan Dodge, Seb Marineau. He's a senior VP of software at BlackBerry and was with QNX throughout the BlackBerry acquisition. Seb has since worked on the PlayBook and more recently, BlackBerry 10. Kevin talks with him about the transition process between companies and between platforms. They go over QNX...
While we still have plenty of content to come from BlackBerry Live 2013, we're breaking things down and getting ready to head back home. We've had plenty of great chats and interviews with a slew of developers and BlackBerry fans, and while we certainly didn't get to talk to everyone, we did get lucky that Ritesh swung by the CrackBerry Live stage before we left. Even though we had it...
PressReader was one of my favorite news apps for BlackBerry 10, and the fine folks that made it managed to find their way to our BlackBerry Live 2013 stage. Igor Smirnoff, their VP of Digital, walked us through the app, and hinted at some pretty exciting stuff that's coming down the pipe. PressReader allows users to either subscribe to their massive international catalogue of...
We chat with Chad, a recent hire that's handling BlackBerry developer support for HTML5 apps.
And this one even ends with a typing test!