Barkada: n. barkada(s) is Filipino street slang means a group of friends or a gang of youth.

Following up on the BlackBerry Flash Mob dance (see video below) at the SM Mall of Asia Atrium last December 7, 2012, RIM has posted up a video ...

Now this is cool. Rogers, CIBC, and RIM have teamed up to release Canada's first NFC magazine ad with the proud support of Crosscliq. What is it exactly? Well, this magazine actually has an NFC tag in it, that when a BlackBerry with NFC enabled (i.e. Bold 9900) is held up to it, ...

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It's not only a new year, but obviously a new month as well. So with January rolling around, the BlackBerry Blog announced January 2013's Fan of Month, Arisham! Continuing with the new international trend, Arisham hails from Kuala Lumpur and is obviously a hardcore BlackBerry fan. ...

Our friend Joey Sanders found an interesting piece while checking out the Fox News channel. One of the contributors to the network, Tobin Smith, was on the record saying that he predicts RIM stock will come up big in 2013 at $30. That's more than double than what the $11.47/share the stock ...

We had been hearing about this Curve coming for a while, and now it's official. RIM and T-Mobile have announced the BlackBerry Curve 9315. It's the standard entry device and it's rocking OS 7.1. The Curve will be available on January 23rd online and in stores. Check out the press release ...

Support for BBM 7 has finally come to those BlackBerry users who are running older operating systems (OS 4.5 and 5.0). When we told you about BBM 7 leaving beta back on December 10th, BBM 7 was only available for OS 6, 7 and 7.1. RIM promised that early in the new year that they would ...

InterDigital has extended their licenses to RIM to include 4G patents which including LTE and LTE-Advanced from the previous patents. Looks like this deal will also be multi-year, so I'm hoping that no issues arise on the legal side of things. InterDigital is a powerhouse when it ...

RIM is staying in tune with the weekly BlackBerry Messenger animated avatars as we progress ever so closer to the BlackBerry 10 launch event on Jan 30th. Now that we are only 4 weeks away, RIM has created a nice looking "4 Weeks To BlackBerry 10" avatar, ...

A British student, 17 year old Dogan Ismail, was stabbed and killed this past Sunday over his BlackBerry phone, and the murder suspect is 15 year old boy. Dohan (above), along with his little brother Orhan, had gone to retrieve his stolen BlackBerry when they were confronted by a group ...

The FCC has just approved a BlackBerry 10 device that runs on AT&T's network. We reported just a few days ago that two mystery devices arrived on the FCC radar, awaiting approval. The first approved device runs on the same type of network AT&T uses for its' 4G LTE devices. ...

Research In Motion today filed a patent with the USPTO to help fight what RIM calls "inconspicuous use of cameras on handheld mobile communication devices." Basically what RIM is doing is keeping people's private moments private. Their patent "extends the normal camera-taking ...

With 2013 finally under way, the BlackBerry community has a great year ahead of it. The launch of BlackBerry 10 is only 29 days away and it's sure to be amazing. Looking back, 2012 was a pretty cool year though. It was a year of transition in the BlackBerry world. At times, it was exciting, ...

It's that time of year again when we reflect back on where we have been, and also gaze into the future at where we would like to be in the coming year. Of course for 2013, it's going to be all about BlackBerry 10. RIM's Head of Software Portfolio, Vivek Bhardwaj, has even suggested we ...