Posts Tagged ‘RIM’

DevCon: RIM and Adobe Team up

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has announced a new collaboration with Adobe to bring rich internet content to the BlackBerry platform. The collaboration will allow Flash developers to bring their creations to the platform.

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BlackBerry Announces Widgets Platform

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

BlackBerry seems to be on overdrive lately when it comes to attracting new developers to their platform. Today, they announced their brand new Widget platform to bring smaller developer on board.

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BlackBerry Security Policies Outlined

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

Over at the BlackBerry Develop Blog, the company started a three part series on BlackbBerry's IT policies. With business safety in mind, it could very well be the case that consumers are not allowed to install your games.

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App World Launched in Latin America

August 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

The RIM team announced that they have anabled access to App World for consumers in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentine, Chile and Mexico. This is the first step toward full coverage of Latin America.

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RIM’s App World Goes Web Based

August 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Shopping online through a mobile phone will not limit users to where they are, but some might still prefer a normal screen to check out what they want to purchase. RIM has now opeped the web based version of their App World store.

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RIM Launches Developer Blog

August 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

In an effort to further commit to their developers, RIM has opened up a new blog aimed at the BlackBerry OS development community. With the launch of a 2 part API special, the company already made a head start.

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BlackBerry App World Growing Fast

July 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has announced that it's App Store called BlackBerry App World has about 2.000 mobile apps and games available in the US, UK and Canada.

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PG Finds Billing Loophole in App World

April 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | 1 Comment »

All credits for this story go to Stuart at PocketGamer. The team there managed to find a loophole that enables developers to receive a far better rev-share from their mobile games.

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CTIA: BlackBerry App World Launches

April 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

As rumored all over the net (and at MGB of course) last week, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry App World sales channel went live today for consumers in Canada , the US and the UK.

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Mogees Acquires Berrystore

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile billing provider Mogees has announced the acquisition of Berrystore. Berrystore is an App Store like sales channel that is aimed at the BlackBerry platform. Unlike RIM?s official BlackBerry World shop, Berrystore offers more variation in pricing levels.