While waiting at the QNX booth to get a closer look at their latest concept car, we chatted with Andrew from QNX for a few minutes who gave us a peak at the new OnStar RemoteLink app for BlackBerry. Using the app you can connect to your car, such as a Chevrolet Volt, and get a ton of data about the car and also interact with it... as in starting the car. All done in HTML5, it's a really clean app that looks GREAT on the PlayBook. Check out the video above for more details!
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The $500 Desktop Clock App for BlackBerry that I was dumb enough to buy...
[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] Everybody knows money goes fast in Vegas. Between the gambling, food, shopping, shows, clubs and more, Vegas will happily take whatever money you have and send you home with empty pockets. But with $500 in your pocket, you can still have a pretty good time in Vegas... or you can be dumb like me and blow that same money with the click of a...
A sit down with some of the Poynt team
Michelle let us all know about the update to one of our favorite apps, Poynt. For any that don’t know, Poynt is an all-in-one location-based search application and is one of the favorites for the majority of BlackBerry users. Here at CES, I got to sit down and chat with several members of the Poynt team including CEO Andrew Osis and Jeff Davison, VP Marketing and Communications. It was...
Closing the BlackBerry App Gap - Talking to Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations for Research In Motion
[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] With titles like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope finally hitting the BlackBerry platform, we're really starting to see evidence that the app gap on BlackBerry is starting to close and things are gaining momentum. There are now over 50,000 apps available for BlackBerry and App World has passed 2 billion downloads. Not bad! No doubt there is...
RIM shows the love at CES2012 through BBM
RIM says thank you to the BlackBerry faithful at CES2012 RIM has an army out in full force at CES2012 adding BlackBerry users to BBM for the purpose of pampering us with limo rides, snacks and charged batteries. We were met on the platform coming off the monorail at the Las Vegas Convention Center by these PR folks with QR codes hanging around their necks. We were asked to scan...