Amazon launched its Kindle application for the BlackBerry devices. Kindle For BlackBerry app enables users of the Blackberry smartphone to read digital books purchased from Amazon and synchronize bookmarks with the Kindle electronic reader and other supported devices. Apart from the Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader device, currently it is available in Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch with a Kindle app and also on Windows PCs. Amazon also plans to release applications for the Mac and Apple iPad, a tablet computer set to be released at the end of March. Read full story »
RIM introduced BlackBerry Presenter portable device, which can deliver PowerPoint presentations wirelessly from your BlackBerry smartphone. You just need to plug the BlackBerry Presenter into a projector or monitor and select Present from the wizard on your BlackBerry smartphone. With the Bluetooth connection between the BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry Presenter, users can also walk around freely while presenting. It supports roaming up to 30 feet between the devices. It also supports 24 animation and 55 transition styles of PowerPoint 2003 and 2007, and you can even set the time between transitions. Read full story »
From January 26th onwards, Bangalore city traffic police will stop issuing old system of paper challans for traffic violations and instead all traffic violations will be booked only via BlackBerry. Superior officers get details of the enforcement on computers in real time. Citizens can be assured that whatever they pay as fine will only go to the government. Read full story »
According to survey findings from Nielsen’s, about one of every seven American households (15%) owns at least one smartphone. The top mobile phones of the year are topped by the iPhone 3G, BlackBerry Curve, and Motorola RAZR. Read full story »
Nimbuzz launched Nimbuzz for Blackberry smartphones which runs as a native application and enables you to connect with all your friends from the most popular social networks and IM communities like Skype, Facebook, WLM (MSN), MySpace, Yahoo and Gtalk. This application is developed especially for Blackberry O.S. 4.6 and higher – devices like Storm, Bold 9000, Tour 9630, Pearl Flip, Curve 8900, Storm 2 and Bold 9700. Read full story »
