I recently caught up with an old friend, RogersDude69 , and had a long conversation about retail and smartphones. I sent him a few questions over email to get some answers about how retailers market and sell BlackBerrys. Tell me about Smartphone sales where you work, which platform is ...

One of the most compelling features of BESX has been kicked to the curb for Verizon users. When Research In Motion released BESX, they clearly made note of the fact BES data plans would not be needed. I'm guessing Verizon skipped over that memo as it's now been confirmed ...

Fandango is making the move to bring movie goers into the future by going paperless. The internet movie giant is testing out a plan to use 2D barcodes in theaters instead of the age-old physical paper tickets. Your tickets are delivered to a mobile device in the form of ...

Episode #10 of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast is up. Leo Laporte, Conan O’brian, Kevin Rose…  Feel free to tell people to follow @RIMarkable and @SimpleMobileRev at any time… Subscribe via iTunes Show Topics Conan and Leo On Twitter The unbelievable power they have to affect Twitter Social Networking ...

It’s time again for your bi-weekly helping of premium BlackBerry themes. This week we’ve got new designs from two of our favorite theme developers, Hedone Design and Elecite. They both brought the goods, releasing two excellent, standout themes. I go through a lot of these in order to write ...

Zoompass have announced that they are now preloaded on Bell devices and users should start seeing the app on the homescreen shortly. This isn’t breaking news because we know that Zoompass is a joint venture with all the major Canadian carriers , but it’s good to see how fast ...

UberTwitter have launched version 0.970 and they’ve included a nice changelog for those looking to see what specific updates and fixes have occurred. Some of the notable updates include the ability to opt out of sponsored tweets, delete direct messages and they’ve added a new shortcut for scrolling up ...

It wasn't too long ago that good ole Jerry Seinfeld was dissing BlackBerry's, BlackBerry People and iPhones in an interview with Conan. It was funny stuff. I guess so funny he brought the "BlackBerry People" rant back recently on Letterman. Funny cuz it's true :) [ via BBCool ] ...

The latest version of App World is available for download and while there isn’t anything major in this release, there are some bug fixes making it worth downloading. BlackBerry App World 1.1.0.33 has updates mostly to the backend. Some users reported that larger apps were causing issues on a ...

It looks like Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are getting the BIS 3.0 upgrade this weekend . This is a highly anticipated BIS upgrade because it will bring 2-way Gmail sync, which I’m personally elated about. The update is expected to arrive during a scheduled maintenance for ...