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- RIM Providing India BlackBerry Monitoring Tools to Simplify What They Could Already Do
- Adobe Acquires Nitobi – Developers of PhoneGap HMTL5 Framework
- Possible BlackBerry BBX (QNX OS) Name Confirmed in QNX Auto Summit Japan Slide?
- TeleNav GPS Plus Now Available for Several Verizon BlackBerry
- RIM Acquires NewBay Cloud Based White Label Service
- OS 7.0.0.440 Found Online for BlackBerry Bold 9900 & Torch 9860
- Red Card Rampage Soccer Ball PlayBook Game (Marmalade SDK)
- Photo Editor Ultimate is a Solid… Photo Editor for BlackBerrys
- RIM Explains Their Customer Feedback Loop & How to be Involved
- Free Logic Lines BlackBerry Game from Karmic Apps
| RIM Providing India BlackBerry Monitoring Tools to Simplify What They Could Already Do Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:56 PM PDT
I am still not sure if anybody at RIM has sat down with the folks in India and explained to them how BlackBerry encryption works. Regular consumer BIS and BBM conversations are NOT encrypted which means carriers and governments could view the contents if they had access to the data stream through the carrier. This is nothing new and has been the case for years. We covered this detail in an article back in August of last year on "What communication is encrypted on your BlackBerry." To sum it up your regular BIS email is not encrypted between your device and the carriers BIS server only BES email is encrypted. BBM messages for consumers and most business users are also not encrypted but rather are scrambled using the same key found on any BlackBerry device unless a BES admin sets is differently which would stop you from BBM-ing anybody outside your BES. The rocket scientists in India's Department of Telecommunications seem to not have the technical savvy to read clear text on the wire so they have been hounding RIM to provide them a solution. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that RIM has given India’s DOT a solution to monitor email and BBM which essentially does what any carrier could do if they had the technical know how. India claims this is to protect from terrorists that are using "Encrypted Emails" the problem is RIM's solution will not help them at all when it comes to this. If a terrorist or any company uses a BlackBerry on a BES than all BES emails are encrypted and even RIM cannot give carriers access to them. In other words all they need to do to foil the brilliant rocket scientists at India's DOT is setup their device on a BES server. There are tons of technologies just like this that India can also not monitor like SSL, VPN, PGP, etc but I guess India is still going to try. Good luck folks! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 5:56 pm. | RIM Providing India BlackBerry Monitoring Tools to Simplify What They Could Already Do | Leave a comment |
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| Adobe Acquires Nitobi – Developers of PhoneGap HMTL5 Framework Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:08 PM PDT
If you are a BlackBerry web developer you have probably heard of Nitobi and their open sourceHTML5 mobile phone development framework called PhoneGap. They help you package apps with HTML5 and JavaScript into cross platform mobile apps including BlackBerry. They just got a nice shot in the arm with an acquisition by Adobe. Not a bad deal if you are invested in PhoneGap as a developer. It will be very interesting to see what comes of this as Adobe embraces HTML5 alongside Flash especially on the PlayBook which supports both. Check out the details on www.phonegap.com If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 4:08 pm. | Adobe Acquires Nitobi – Developers of PhoneGap HMTL5 Framework | One comment |
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| Possible BlackBerry BBX (QNX OS) Name Confirmed in QNX Auto Summit Japan Slide? Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:11 PM PDT
Rumors have been floating around for a bit now about what RIM will call their future QNX based OS when it migrates off the PlayBook and onto phones. It obviously cannot be called the BlackBerry Tablet OS anymore and CrackBerry posited that it would be called BBX merging BB with QNX. Now Kevin scored a slide from the QNX Auto Summit Japan presentation that seems to be pointing to the BBX name again. My Japanese is nonexistent but you can clearly see it shows support for BBX, iOS, and Android. Let us know if you can figure out what it says! If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Luis Merlos for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 3:11 pm. | Possible BlackBerry BBX (QNX OS) Name Confirmed in QNX Auto Summit Japan Slide? | One comment |
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| TeleNav GPS Plus Now Available for Several Verizon BlackBerry Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:00 PM PDT
TeleNav is one of my favorite BlackBerry apps because it offers one of the best BlackBerry navigation options in the market. Today they announced that their GPS Plus is available for BlackBerry with a sale deal of $9.99 a year. That is a 50% off the standard price of $19.99/year. The discounted price is available for a short time only. TeleNav GPS Plus is available to download for the following devices on app world: If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Luis Merlos for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 3:00 pm. | TeleNav GPS Plus Now Available for Several Verizon BlackBerry | 4 comments |
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| RIM Acquires NewBay Cloud Based White Label Service Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT
RIM is on a roll with their acquisitions. The latest is the acquisition of NewBay which is a Dublin, Ireland cloud based service provider. They white label their solution LifeCache for cloud based services for storing, sharing, and organizing digital content like photos and video. NewBay has 200 of their own employees and currently has deals with T-Mobile US, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, & AT&T.
This seems to be RIM's answer to Apple, Google, and now Amazons cloud offerings for mobile. They even have a slick SyncDrive solution that competes with DropBox and SugarSync. It should be interesting to see how this plays out. Check out more details about NewBay at www.newbay.com. via Canada.com If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 12:29 pm. | RIM Acquires NewBay Cloud Based White Label Service | One comment |
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| OS 7.0.0.440 Found Online for BlackBerry Bold 9900 & Torch 9860 Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:16 AM PDT
Warning: This OS will not install on any other BlackBerry besides the one mentioned above and is not an official release.If you do not know how to upgrade your BlackBerry OS please start by reading this step by step guide.Don't forget to delete the vendor.xml file located in c:program files>common files>research in motion>apploader to install it on a different carriers device. Don't forget our usual warnings: do not download and install these updates if you don't know what you're doing. Incorrect procedure or just bad luck could render your BlackBerry inoperative or unstable. If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 12:16 pm. | OS 7.0.0.440 Found Online for BlackBerry Bold 9900 & Torch 9860 | 2 comments |
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| Red Card Rampage Soccer Ball PlayBook Game (Marmalade SDK) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 08:53 AM PDT BlackBerry PlayBook games built on the Marmalade SDK keep on coming. The latest brought to my attention is Red Card Rampage by Syed Salman Qadri of TurboNuke. The game is a fun take on a physics based soccer game with the end goal being decapitating the referee. You need to aim and get the ball to the goal by any means necessary. The video below really does the best job of explaining the gameplay: Desktop Video Link | Mobile Video LinkFeatures include:
You can pick up Red Card Rampage for a very reasonable $1.99 in App World If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 11:53 am. | Red Card Rampage Soccer Ball PlayBook Game (Marmalade SDK) | Leave a comment |
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| Photo Editor Ultimate is a Solid… Photo Editor for BlackBerrys Posted: 07 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT I am always on the hunt for a better photo and image editing app for my BlackBerry. The latest to hit my shortlist is Photo Editor Ultimate by Ice Cold Apps. Photo Editor Ultimate is a very capable photo editor with tons of features from editing to filters. You can also draw on images and add text to them. Just take a look at the feature list to see what I mean.
Photo Editor Ultimate is also very reasonably priced at $1.99 in App World. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 11:01 am. | Photo Editor Ultimate is a Solid… Photo Editor for BlackBerrys | One comment |
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| RIM Explains Their Customer Feedback Loop & How to be Involved Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:07 AM PDT
One of the things RIM is not really known for is listening closely to customer feedback at least from consumers. They have been getting MUCH better at this in the last few years with customer facing feedback solutions like their forums, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Beta Zone, and others. RIM did a nice job of explaining how their feedback loop works using an example of their BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app. Its actually an interesting read over on the BlackBerry business blog. Now I just wish that RIM could do more to show users that they are listening whether they are consumers, developers, business users, enthusiasts, etc. I get the feeling that RIM is now listening but they definitely need to do more to show that they are acting on the feedback. For example, if a developer or even a consumer gives feedback about a bug or feature enhancement then let the world know when it is fixed or improved or if it cannot be done… They obviously cannot implement all suggestions but showing responsiveness needs to go beyond the Beta Zone limited applications. For example, it was awesome that RIM added the ability to add to an existing contact in BlackBerry OS 7. On the other hand take the Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9930 back button bug and provide users a solution even if the carrier does not authorize the issuance of a new OS. Last but not least these are the locations RIM recommends for customers to provide feedback on BlackBerry products and solutions:
Its interesting to see their forums and Twitter are not on the list… If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 10:07 am. | RIM Explains Their Customer Feedback Loop & How to be Involved | 4 comments |
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| Free Logic Lines BlackBerry Game from Karmic Apps Posted: 07 Oct 2011 05:52 AM PDT
Matching lines games are a dime a dozen but Jerry let us know about an addictive free variant called Logic Lines by Karmic Apps. The principles are the same and it will definitely keep you entertained. Gameplay is quite hard if not impossible on some levels. Either way you cannot argue with a free game… You can pick up Logic Lines in App World here for OS 4.7+ devices If you liked this article, you might find these interesting:
Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 7, 2011, 8:52 am. | Free Logic Lines BlackBerry Game from Karmic Apps | Leave a comment |
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