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During the BlackBerry Jam Asia keynote, Marty Mallick, VP of Global Alliance at RIM, has just announced BlackBerry App World has now been renamed to BlackBerry World. The thought behind this change is that BlackBerry World is a one-stop shop for everything, music, movies, apps and games. ...

The BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam that was held in Maribor, Slovenia, was more than just a mini jam. Due to the great turnout of over 200 developers from all over the Balkan region, the event should be lifted to official BlackBerry Jam event status. The excellently organized event was ...

It's always nice to see how BlackBerry stacks up against the competition in the "looks" department. A recent photo shows the BlackBerry 10 L-Series device next to competitors - Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Nokia Lumia 820 and Apple iPhone 5. Every device has it's own form factor, ...

Research In Motion was handed quite a troubling blow in a court case with Nokia. A Swedish arbitrator ruled in favor of Nokia in a contract dispute over Nokia's WLAN patents and related items. This is disturbing because it could potentially halt any current sales and/or future sales ...

Rock n Roll Game Studio has contacted us about two new games they have just released for BlackBerry. Mouse Hunter ON STEROIDS! for OS 7 devices, and Ninjas vs Zombies for PlayBook. Both of these games are incredibly fun to play. And best of all, they're FREE to download via BlackBerry ...

Wikitude is launching their premium app version exclusively for BlackBerry today. The Premium version allows you to "beam you across the globe" with a new teleportation feature, and it is ads free as well.

Depending on the App World approval time it may or ...

Another good day for beta zone members as a new version of Facebook has been released. The new beta version is updated to 3.3.0.9 and has in it many updates. You can download it right away if you're a member of the Beta Zone and if not, you can easily sign up for the BlackBerry Beta ...

On Monday RIM announced that it has integrated carrier billing with over 50 carriers around the world. Integrated carrier billing allows customers to purchase apps and other digital goods through their BlackBerry device and then have it charged to their monthly bill from their carrier. According ...

BlackBerry 10 devices are robust mobile computing machines. They will have a wide variety of built-in sensors to detect anything from movement to magnetic fields. With ever progressing advancements, we begin to see these new sensors become more prevalent in everyday smartphone use. They allow our devices to "see" and "hear" the world around us.
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Seems like the more days that fall off toward the BlackBerry 10 launch, the more RIMM stock continues to rise. This sudden stock increase lately is mostly due to knowing the exact date that the new BlackBerry 10 platform will launch. But we can also give some credit to a major stock analyst, ...

Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United and the Dutch national team, was recently spotted taking some photos with his BlackBerry Bold 9790.

Footballers (soccer players for us in the USA) aren't foreign to being BlackBerry users, ...

We've seen plenty of BlackBerry 10 L-Series leaks in the past couple months. However, not much going on for the N-Series leaks lately, until today. The image above is a supposed leaked non-photoshopped image of the qwerty keyboard for the BlackBerry 10 N-Series device.
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Getting the word out about BlackBerry 10 and app development for the new OS is essential now. And bringing the awesomeness of BlackBerry 10 to the world is the object of the BlackBerry 10 Jams. This time two BlackBerry 10 Jams are headed to the Middle East this December.
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If you've noticed some very cool BlackBerry 10 avatars showing up on BlackBerry Messenger, then there is a good chance that they are official avatars created by RIM. I've managed to gather up four of them, in which three are animated.

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