The question is “Is there some type of BlackBerry outage right now?”, and the answer is, “Yes, there is”. According to Data Outages News , all North American carriers are experiencing issues affecting BIS and BES only, on what appears to be devices with Wi-Fi.  “Data works sometimes when  ...

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 ...

Hedone let us know they have released their latest theme called Explicit. The theme looks particularly cool on a Storm, but it’s available for most BlackBerrys including trackball and trackpad. This theme comes with 10 customizable icons, as well a clean homescreen making it ideal for use with your ...

Wow! With all the birthday fun this week we totally forgot to run the contest winners on Tuesday. I'm going to sneak them in now before the weekend, since I'll have plenty to do gathering the winners from all of the insane birthday contests. If you haven't already, check ...

Here's one for the books - the MLB.com At Bat 2010 is now available, but it appears that its only for the Storm. A pleasant turn of events for Storm users, we QWERTY carriers are seemingly out of luck on this one (its odd to see the situation swapped ...

Verizon announced earlier today that they are making all landline and wireless calls from the United States to Chile free in the aftermath of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that shock the country this passed weekend.  Calls made from now through March 6th will be billed at $0.00.  Calls made ...

I just read a cool article over at PCPro about 5 GPS-based games you can play with your BlackBerry. While most of the newer devices have GPS, the ones that don’t can use cell-tower triangulation which in urban centers is just as reliable. 1. Geocaching Geocaching is probably the ...

There’s a great story developing right now between the various developers who make flashlight apps for BlackBerry . The flashlight app is one of the simplest apps to develop for not only BlackBerry, but probably any smartphone, and it’s the reason so many of the show up in App ...

Some of you all may remember back to CES when Kodak was showing off their new BlackBerry offerings . Shortly after playing friendly at CES, Kodak then decided to bring forth some patent issues with Research In Motion and Apple at the same time, claiming both companies were infringing ...

Since its release, I’ve tried to avoid the Kindle. I go through a book or two a week, and over the years have grown to love my paper babies. What would happen if I found out that an electronic reader was even cooler? A month ago I found out, ...