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RIM Offering BBM Music For Free – For Six Months
BlackBerry has kicked off a limited time holiday promotion for BBM Music. Customers in the United Kingdom that download the app before January 4th, 2012, they will get the first 6 months for free. They will also extend this offer to those who have already downloaded BBM Music, extending your current subscription to four months. With BBM Music, you can create a music profile of your favourite songs that all your BBM Music friends can listen to – and in return you can enjoy all of your friends’ profile selections. That means the more friends you have on BBM Music, the more music you and your friends can…
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RIM Announces New Beautiful BlackBerry Curve Smartphones
A new trio of gorgeous devices has just been announced by RIM. They are ergonomically designed with a comfortable and iconic keyboard for fast, accurate typing and an optical trackpad for easy, one-handed navigation. GPS and Wi-Fi® support are also included, as well as a 5MP camera with flash and video recording so that memories can be captured and instantly shared on social networks. The microSD/SDHC slot supports up to 32 GB memory cards for additional media storage. In addition to supporting the new BlackBerry 7 OS, the new BlackBerry Curve smartphones feature a range of powerful hardware enhancements including upgraded processors, displays and memory, and built-in support for NFC…
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RIM Issues Second Statement Regarding BBM And The UK Riots
Following the concern voiced by David Cameron, UK Prime Minister and Theresa May, the Home Secretary, RIM has issued a new statement regarding the use of BBM and the English rioters. Here it is: “Further to the statements made on the 11th August by the British Prime Minister and Home Secretary, we welcome the opportunity for consultation together with other companies in the technology and telecommunication industry. RIM continues to comply with both UK privacy laws as well as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which are of course the same laws that apply to other technology and telecommunications companies in the UK." Concern is mounting as to how…
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Cameron Wants To Block Rioters In England From Social Media – Why?
The FT Tech Hub has a great article today reporting how David Cameron wants the authorities to consider blocking social media access to individuals plotting further violent acts following a week of riots and looting on the streets of England. How would it be possible to only block individuals? Is this an infringement on society? What about all the legitimate users of Twitter, BBM and others? Should we all suffer due to a minority? In fact The Financial Times even points out today that Twitter has been as ‘effective in organizing clean-up efforts and ad-hoc support for those affected by the rioting than it had been in bringing looters out…
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BBM Social Platform – Now In Public Beta
This means that the BlackBerry developer community can now take advantage of the powerful social aspects of the ultra popular BBM service (an active user base of over 28 million). Enhanced Developer Experience – Empowering features With this beta release, Java developers have access to APIs and features that allow them to build important functions into their applications. They are user permission based and include accessing and updating fields in the user’s profile, creating custom areas within the user’s profile, initiating and embedding chats with friends, initiating file transfers, sharing applications virally with friends in their contact list. Developers also have the ability to test the exact workflow and BBM…
