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App Gifting Comes To BlackBerry App World
Very much like the successful gifting facility in the Apple App Store, BlackBerry has now announced a new mobile gifting platform that will integrate with BlackBerry App World and carrier billing systems to allow BlackBerry subscribers to instantly gift airtime, apps and other carrier services from one subscriber to another using BBM. The official press release reads, "the innovative BBM mobile gifting platform will integrate with BlackBerry App World™ and carrier billing systems and allow the gifting requests and approvals to be handled directly between the BlackBerry subscribers using BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger) with transactions that are secure, authenticated and non-repudiable. The platform will also allow carriers to more easily sell…
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Xploding Boxes Explode Onto BlackBerry App World Store
Xploding Boxes (also known as Exploding Boxes) is a strategy game for BlackBerry that was released this weekend on BlackBerry AppWorld. The goal of the game is to start a chain reaction that will explode all of the boxes on the screen. Each level gives you a different number of clicks, and requires a different strategy to solve. The first 25 levels are free, while the rest of the levels can be accessed by making an in-application payment. The Xploding Boxes starts with five levels unlocked, and every time you beat a level, an additional level is unlocked. The end result of this is that if you ever get stuck,…
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Top 10 Music Apps For Your Beautiful Blackberry Device
The Blackberry App World store has a superb selection of brilliant apps to choose from. Here we have selected music apps that include themes, music stores, quizzes and music games, allowing you great music fans to listen to your favorite tracks and test your musical knowledge. Take a look at this list enjoy and why not download one or two for the weekend? 7digital Music Store Browse the latest charts, preview the latest tracks and discover, purchase & download high quality, DRM-free MP3 music directly to your BlackBerry® smartphone. You ll also get an integrated advanced media player that imports your existing playlists and MP3 music so that you can…
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Starbucks Now Accepts Mobile App Payments
Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee store chain, announced today that its mobile payment system is now available nationwide, allowing users to pay for items using the Starbucks Card Mobile app available for the iPhone and Blackberry. Starbucks Card Mobile is a free app compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch. To make payments through the app, a registered Starbucks card is required. Obtaining a card and registering it with Starbucks is also free. Making A Payment To make a mobile payment, a user simply presents the barcode on the Scan Now screen within the app to a cashier. The sale amount will then be deducted from the associated Starbucks card. Mobile…
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Who Is It – LED Light Alerts for Contacts? New BlackBerry App
Finally, a BlackBerry® app that lets YOU decide whether to take the call, email, or SMS now or later with ‘Who Is It’. Using your BlackBerry’s® front LED, assign up to 10 colors to different callers. Parents? Green. Boss? Yellow. Tax accountant? Blue, blue, blue. You know who’s on the line at a glance so you decide if this is a contact that needs attention now, or a call, email or SMS that can wait a while. • Choose up to 10 different contacts and assign 10 different LED colors so you know who’s on the line all of the time. • No reconfiguration required. Just download and set up…
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Blackberry Playbook Vs Apple iPad
RIM has just posted on YouTube a comparison video between the Playbook and the iPad. watch?v=s72rGDUn2uo The video runs through a series of comparison tests with a BlackBerry PlayBook and Apple iPad which demonstrate the speed of the PlayBook Browser, its support for rich Flash content, and the performance of open web standards like HTML 5 on the PlayBook.
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BBC iPlayer Now on Blackberry Storm 2, BlackBerry Bold 9700 and BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphones
This popular BlackBerry application allows you to watch and listen to live BBC TV and radio shows, as well as catch up on BBC programmes from the last seven days (UK only). Whether you’re stuck on a bus and about to miss the beginning of Spooks, or wanting to catch up on the last episode of The Apprentice before the next one begins, it’s all now possible through your BlackBerry smartphone. The application is free to download now from the BlackBerry App Store: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/15956?lang=en For optimal viewing experience, a WiFi connection is required, but the service is also supported by 3 UK and contract on Vodafone.
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All Play, No Work? – RIM Announces The PlayBook
The highly anticipated Blackberry tablet has finally been announced and it looks pretty good too. Smaller than the current Apple iPad (rumors are rife that Apple are bringing out a smaller iPad in 2011). The PlayBook as Blackberry have christened their tablets stands in a 7 inches tall, weighs less than a pound, fueled by a 1GHz dual-core processor and dual HD cameras for both video conferencing and video capture. Also, a great additional advantage over the iPad is the inclusion of an HDMI-out port, allowing output to an external display. And that’s just a few of the features, see more below: Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In…
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104 million iPhone users VS 12 million Android users on Facebook
With all the latest user stats for Facebook being displayed it is now possible to find out how many specific users are using Facebook based on their cell phones. It is incredible albeit not all surprising that the iPhone contributes with over 104 million active monthly users, second are Blackberry users that make up nearly 60 million active users, in third place it is the Android fan boys with 12 million and WebOS/Palm make up 2,500 users. So what do all these stats mean? Does it mean perhaps that the Android and WebOS Facebook apps are no good? Certainly there have been many comments supporting this or is something to…
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Sexual Activity By Smart Phone Brand
okCupid have some excellent data on their site, with their latest chart, apparently, when compared to users who post pictures from other smartphone brands, users who reported using iPhones for their profile pictures tend to identify more sexual partners over all. As you can see in the chart below, male and female iPhone users report higher numbers of sexual partners to OkCupid. Excel – Plot by Age… Now, I wonder if they can devise a chart on users of specific apps having more sex – what do you think?
