Episode #34 of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast, “ Sushi is Dead Cold Fish ” is up and ready for download.  Our big question for BlackBerry users this week…   What is RIM doing to attract new BlackBerry users? Hosts: Rod Simmons, Brent Harmon, Robb Dunewood Recorded: August 29th, 2010 Published: August 30th, ...

Expansion and consolidation. It’s the cycle of history. New technology breeds new services by the dozen. Then, when those services become too numerous to handle we see consolidation. In the past that meant some businesses would not see tomorrow. But now, with mobile technology creating new markets, we’re seeing ...

We just received a juicy tip about the HTC DROID Incredible software update schedule that we’d like to share. One of our strategically placed Ninjas was kind enough to pass along an email from HTC that read as follows: I wanted to pass along that the upcoming Incredible MR will also ...

Shape Services let us know that they have updated IM+ All in One Messenger for BlackBerry to version 8.5. IM+ is one of the best aggregate IM clients that makes you wish RIM would build something similar natively. Currently, RIM has a variety of first party IM clients that ...

The Indian government has been asking for a backdoor to BlackBerry email for some time now. The Indian Intelligence Services see BlackBerry as a security threat because it allows individuals to communicate over a secure network without the government monitoring the chatter. In the past, the Indian government asked ...

Granted, the NFL season doesn’t start until the end of the summer, however, the NFL draft is less than two weeks away and Verizon has released NFL Mobile to Verizon subscribers. NFL Mobile on Verizon includes the wildly popular NFL RedZone channel from the NFL Network and live streaming ...

Kik Chat is a great service for anyone that uses a lot of SMS, as Kik allows for free Kik-to-Kik messaging, much like Skype does for calling. The company have some great projects on the way, including a music app which lets you share DRM-free music with your friends. ...

Yesterday, Apple announced their OS 4 for the iPhone. We wrote about the upcoming news a couple days ago, and both BlackBerry and iPhone users alike were all over the comments with their two cents . Regardless of what you may think of the iPhone vs BlackBerry debate, it’s ...

About a month ago we told you that Tungle are looking for volunteers to beta test their upcoming BlackBerry application . Tungle is a beautiful service that makes scheduling meetings very easy. The concept is very simple and is based on allowing you to suggest times for a meeting ...

After discussing the developer ecosystem internally , as well as with some industry players , the conversation naturally progressed to app launches for the various smartphone platforms out there. While previously we discussed the ecosystem as it pertains to the business side, what about how all of this affects ...