BlackBerry

What’s better than a rocket in your pocket when you find yourself in a sticky situation? Buddy Guard from MPower Labs of course! The app, which launched this week at SXSW is a mobile protector in your pocket, alerting friends and family of your whereabouts and status in case of emergency.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. has struck a deal with 7digital Music Store to have the service natively pre-installed on the BlackBerry PlayBook at launch in the United States and Canada with worldwide launch soon after that.

The roadmap for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry software future has tipped up online, showing two updates to BIS this year and a new version of BlackBerry OS slated for the end of the year.

Having your e-mail compromised can be a serious problem – there is a lot of potentially sensitive data sat around in your inbox. For many Gmail users, it is not just e-mail that is at risk if their account is compromised. Nowadays, many of us have documents, calendars, pictures and even some location information associated with our Google Inc. accounts.

Industry analytics outfit ComScore Inc. has released their latest figures for mobile operating system market share, covering the fourth quarter of 2010. The quarter is always the biggest period of the year for any retailer, covering Black Friday and the festive season. So how did the major operating systems do?

As a BlackBerry user, my main gripe about Android phones is that I just can’t find one that suits my incessant e-mailing habit. The on-screen keyboards just don’t cut it, no matter what new-fangled system the phone is using. i just want my QWERTY brick, goddamit!

The BlackBerry PlayBook isn’t even on shelves yet, but already the firm is talking about upgrades to it coming just a few months after launch – in Summer.

Just last week we brought you word that a company had developed a software solution to allow Android apps to run on MeeGo devices, now it appears similar forces are at work in the world of Blackberry. Several revelations in the past few days are now strongly pointing towards the appearance of a runtime to allow Android apps to be put to work on Blackberry OS.

Well here’s something to annoy all those Blackberry users out there – Twitter has today suspended the platform’s most popular Twitter client, UberTwitter, as well as Android client Twidroyd and iPhone App UberCurrent.

BARCELONA, Spain – It’s not often operators get the cheerleader treatment from mobile phone makers, but Jim Basille of Research In Motion Ltd. was certainly waving his pom-poms for them this week during his keynote at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain.

Ahh, the humble smart phone. For the first part of the last decade a mere curiosity reserved for the hardcore nerds and obsessive businessman of this world, subsequently thrust into the limelight by the iPhone, then Android, and most recently by the escalating war between the two.

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