Over the past year on BBGeeks we’ve featured a number of call blocking applications — Advanced Call Manager and Do Not Disturb stand out. These applications provide pretty basic protection against unwanted calls. You can block specific numbers, block unknown numbers, block private numbers, or block all calls during ...

In an email sent to the BlackBerry Developer Community by Ian McDonald, Manager of the Developer Programs at RIM, it was announced that RIM will be a new program aimed at establishing a global network of Developer Groups. This program is going to be announced at the BlackBerry Developer ...

With specs similar to that of a year 2000 era PC, the BlackBerry is an impressive little mobile computer. With screen resolution getting bigger with every year, I’m finding that video is all the more watchable on your device. So for those of you with a long bus, train, ...

Tvider is a free app that lets you share pics, video and audio on Twitter. There are two main ways of sharing files, by uploading on the spot with “InstaPix”, “InstaVid” and “InstaAudio” or using a feature called “MemWhiz” which lets you select a file and attach a Tweet ...

Xobni’s Manager of Support, confirmed over LinkedIn that Xobni for BlackBerry will be released “towards the end of February.” Our good friend Brett made sure to screengrab the statement and throw it up on his Posterous blog , so we’ll be holding Xobni to that time frame. A month ...

Empower have released BlackBerry screensavers in both free and paid versions. The free screensavers display ads for Empower products, while the premium versions ($2.99) are ad-free. More details are available on the product pages: Free Animated Screensavers Battery Screensaver Premium Matrix Screensaver Premium Starfield Screensaver Premium Snowfall Screensaver ? ...

IBM's big annual Lotus Conference, Lotusphere , is taking place right now in Orlando, Florida. Research In Motion is on site as they always are, not only as a sponsor but as great contributors to the event. This year, RIM brought some new and updated business collaboration tools with ...

Since Simon first published How To Upgrade Your BlackBerry OS , there have been a ton of updates and questions from BlackBerry Cool readers, so I thought it would be good to republish with new tips and put everything on a single page. What you’ll need Desktop Manager (free ...

RIM is hosting a webinar for those looking to build BlackBerry themes. The webinar will be held January 12th, 2010 at 2PM EST. Register for the webinar today and learn how to build BlackBerry themes. The webinar will feature Mark Rathwell, Product Manager, Application Platform, and Dale Ducharme, Team ...

We’re having another MobileHeist today, Thursday, December 17th. Today we have 10 BlackBerry apps on sale for 50% off. To check out the MobileHeist on your desktop, visit the BlackBerry Cool store. To participate in the MobileHeist from your BlackBerry, see the on-device store. SmrtGuard Yearly Service – Secure ...