News and Rumors

You may remember a little over a year ago, RIM purchased the cloud service and software company, NewBay, for a cool 100 million dollars. Then, this last August, rumors surfaced via the WSJ that RIM was going to be selling of NewBay to acquire some hard cash to take hold of their financial ...

Apart from my constant writing in the BlackBerryOS Blog and bringing you daily BlackBerry news, I have another passion that not too many know about. Music! Any chance I get at playing my guitar or recording a new song, I'm always involved in music. ...

Every now and then there comes a time where its appropriate to look beyond the bits and bytes of the BlackBerry device and reflect on something else. While the technological advances that RIM has shown us over the past year have been amazing, and will continue to wow us into the ...

Netflix has been one of the apps that we've been dying to have on BlackBerry for a while now. It still hasn't come to the PlayBook and with tweets from their official accounts, it didn't seem likely they'd be coming to BlackBerry 10 either. All that may be changing though, as some pictures ...

Xlabz, the makers of some high quality apps for the PlayBook, have announced that they're holding a holiday sale. They're putting 11 of their apps on sale, starting today until January 10th, 2013.

Their sale list includes:

1. Groovy Notes

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In another leak today, we get a glimpse at some of the details surrounding the Task Manager feature for BlackBerry 10 called, BlackBerry Remember. Task Managers can be complicated and too much hassle than they are worth if not used all the time. But from the looks of BlackBerry ...

Although we have known for some time now that BBM Video would be coming to BlackBerry 10, we haven't had a definite confirmation. Today, a couple slides have leaked showing BBM Video face to face chat, but with a twist. Screen sharing. Yes, you heard right. You will be able to share ...

Looking for a deal on a PlayBook? If you don't mind a refurbished one, you can snag a 16GB PlayBook for $89 plus shipping and taxes. Cowboom.com, Best Buy's offshoot clearance site, has refurbished ones (not in pristine condition of course..) on sale until supplies last.

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When new smartphones launch, some of the things that everyone needs upon purchase are accessories. Most of us don't want to damage our devices when we drop them, so generally a case or cover will be the first purchase we make for our new phones. With BlackBerry 10, this will be no different. ...

Just yesterday we got a glimpse at a few screenshots of what it will look like to use the native Story Maker app coming to BlackBerry 10. Today, we get to see a video of the finished results of the Story Maker app. Story Maker takes your photos, ...

They aren't showing us the greatest detail, but these recent leaked screenshots (see below) of Adobe Reader and Story Maker apps on BlackBerry 10 are promising to us that we will be getting some great native app support. We haven't heard much on Adobe Reader yet, however, we have had some ...

It's in B&W, but we'll take em' as we can get. This recent photo of what is going to be the first BlackBerry N-Series device, rumored to be called the BlackBerry X10, is the closest shot to date that we have had of the elusive device. Just a couple days ago an image leaked showing ...

One of my biggest gripes with RIM over the past two years is how incomplete the PlayBook still feels without BBM. Yes, I know we can bridge our BlackBerry smartphones to it and BBM to our hearts content, but at this juncture, it really should have BBM natively. True, RIM has been putting ...

January 30th is only 39 days away and the anticipation of what will be announced by RIM gets more and more intense. Little by little, we're finding out more specs about the two devices that are expected to be introduced.

From pictures, to the possible brand name, the BlackBerry ...