RIM: Balsille And Lazaridis Out; Heins In
After almost a year of investor backlash, Research In Motion is shaking up the top of their food chain. Jim Balsille and Mike Lazaridis, co-founders and co-CEO’s will be stepping down while the current COO, Thorsten Heins will be stepping in. RIM has been battered and bruised while trying to keep up with the top [...]
Mobile Firefox Alpha
The first Mobile Firefox Alpha codenamed fennec is up for download on Mozilla’s site. Currently, the only mobile device that it actually runs on is Nokia’s N810 tablet, but you can play with it on Windows, OS X and Linux. I’m sure it will only be a short amount of time before we start to [...]
Possible Pics Of The Blackberry Storm
Here are some pics of the Vodaphone-branded Blackberry Storm which is set to be on track for a November release in the States. According to BGR, the interface looks very “text based” for a phone that is supossed to be touchscreen based. If these shots are really they have really made this to look a [...]
Meet The Peek
Meet the Peek, a $100 device that will deliver you your email anywhere you can get cell coverage for $20/month. Think of it as a poorman’s Blackberry. This looks like the perfect device to pick up for some fun hacking projects. OS – Peekux CPU – CPU is an embedded 104Mhz ARM7 that is part [...]
BlackBerry 8220: A Flip Phone
Research in Motion is set to officially unveil the BlackBerry 8220 at the CTIA trade show today. What makes the unveiling of a new BlackBerry so special? It’s a flip phone, something unexpected from RIM. CrackBerry already has a pre-release model, and in the above video they give a brief overview of some of the [...]
Video Of The BlackBerry Bold UI
Doesn’t look that bad does it? I think that they could have polished up some of the small features like the browser and maybe HTML email but other than that it looks pretty cool. Mind you, I’ve have a blackberry since the original 832 that looked like and oversized pager and I have really come [...]
Live Peak Of The BlackBerry Thunder
With all of the hype behind the 3G iPhone it’s no wonder that a sneak peak of the upcoming and much anticipated BlackBerry Thunder would find it’s way to the internet. The guys over at BGR managed to get a snap shot of the upcoming Thunder. Looks like it’s going to be much like the [...]
New Exciting Features For The Blackberry
RIM (you know that tiny company in Canada) announced some highly anticipated features today for their flagship product, the Blackberry. Many of these new features make it easier to work and collaborate with your coworkers. I’m a heavy blackberry user so I’m excited to see all of these new features. Now if RIM would only [...]
Boost Your Cell Service For Cheap
Many a times I have cursed my cell phone and provider because of the ridiculously bad reception one can get. You know what I am referring to, you’re walking in the middle of the street (okay, maybe on a sidewalk) on a bright and sunny day with no massive steel structures anywhere to be seen [...]
Newsgator Goes Free
Just after I spent some money on the new version of NetNewsWire and on NewsGator Go! for my blackberry, Newgator decides that it’s going to offer all of its RSS readers for free, as in beer. Newsgator will rely on revenues from its enterprise offerings going forward (so big business, no break for you). The [...]
$20000 Blackberry Case
CES is full of wonderful gadgets and gizmos and from time to time it’s also full of truly weird and stupid knick knacks. Take this 3.5 carat Blackberry case that will run you a cool $20,000. Forget about encrusting your crackberry in diamonds or dipping it in gold when you can wrap it up in [...]
How To: Delete Duplicate iCal Events
Don’t you hate it when a crazy sync happen between your iPhone, iPod, Entourage, Blackberry, and iDisk. Next thing you know you have every appointment in your iCal 6 times. John Maisey offers a neat utility that will go through your iCal and delete duplicate events in your iCal. Available in Tiger and Leopard flavour, [...]
New Blackberry 9000 Pics
A picture of what very well maybe the next generation Blackberry 900 showed up in an online forum posted by someone who claimed to be from Waterloo Ontario which just happens to be where RIM, the makers of the Blackberry devices has it’s head office. The unit doesn’t appear to have a touch screen like [...]
Blackberrys new angular design
Looks like someone at RIM is trying to get us all to learn yet another new keyboard layout. As if the Half-Qwerty system that the blessed Perl came to offer it looks like a new angular design will keep all of us thumb typers guessing. A new patent filed by the company reveals the weird [...]
