The story of this application, Start Me Up, comes from my research of another application. I’m in Las Vegas this week doing work for one of our sister sites, so I haven’t had much time to put together tips posts. Instead, as you’ve seen, we’ve mainly covered app-related stuff. ...

Word on the street is that China Mobile and RIM are currently piecing together plan rates for BIS. In other words, they are reportedly planning to expand BlackBerry service to individual users. In Guangdong, GoTone customers have had two plans made available to them, priced at 98 Yuan (Renminbi) ...

The BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced a $15 Million Series B funding in PocketGear, led by Trident Capital. PocketGear bills itself as world’s largest cross platform, open app store and content marketplace, after its acquisition of Handango. PocketGear, Handango, and Mobihand are all part of a similar business model ...

In an update to RIM’s initial response to how the company would handle requests from governments to make encrypted data available to carriers, the BlackBerry maker says that “although it cannot disclose confidential regulatory discussions that take place with any government, RIM assures its customers that it genuinely tries ...

Quick Review: Rogers Wireless My Account app for BlackBerry I’ve noticed that a lot of us tend to grumble about what our carriers decide to load onto our BlackBerrys for us. Some users (and the carriers) see these apps as a convenience, while others see them as a nuisance. ...

As I’m playing around with the BlackBerry Torch, I’m noticing a ton of features that I simply love. The Social Feeds section is one in particular that I liked right off the bat. It integrates a ton of your social networking and instant messaging applications into one easy to ...

Today, RIM released an update to their BlackBerry Desktop Manager software use for device management. The update, version 6.0, adds support for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and comes with a completely new user interface. Earlier in the design process, RIM noted that it wanted to remove some of the ...

YouTube link RIM’s ad campaigns are very personal these days. The above BlackBerry Torch and OS 6 promo videos are very much like the BBM commercials , in that they show everyday people using the device in an everyday way. It’s true that a BlackBerry is a very personal ...

This morning, RIM made the BlackBerry Curve 3G official , and now T-Mobile has done the same. Via a press release, T-Mo let the industry know that the BlackBerry Curve 3G will be available on its U.S. network in, “the coming weeks.” The handset will be available in “smoky ...

Here’s my video recap of the AT&T BlackBerry Torch press event in New York. There were a lot of major news outlets there for their smartphone sound byte. Almost every East Coast tech blogger that I had ever seen at a BlackBerry event were in attendence. The clickity-clack of ...