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Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings: Weekly Roundup!

Thanks for joining us once again, and thanks to everyone who sends in links and pictures each week. I love all of your submissions, so keep them rolling in! The answer to last week’s Mystery BlackBerry Celebrity is below along with a new one to guess on, so check them out!

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Google releases Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code

Google on Monday released the source code for the latest version of its Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. This build of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.1) is the same version that will ship on the first ICS device, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus, and it is of course free for developers to donwload. A Read the Rest of the story [...]

U.S. Senate votes in favor of FCC net neutrality rules

 

The United States Senate on Thursday voted 52-46 in opposition of a Republican bill that sought to block the Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality rules. Here’s one small example of how a society without net neutrality might work: Say you’re an avid fan of Netflix or Hulu but, since you’re Read the Rest of the story [...]

AT&T commercial shows off the BlackBerry Torch 9810

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I’m a big believer that RIM and carriers can always do way more when it comes to advertising. I feel they never really show off the truly great features of BlackBerry phones and that is something on which they are missing the mark. The latest Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: How to send your contact information with vCards on OS 6 and OS 7

Have you ever been asked for your business card only to realize you ran out? Are there moments when you want to send your number, email, and pin to a friend but don’t want to type everything out? Well have no fear your BlackBerry device makes it really simple to share Read the Rest of the story [...]

nano-SIM’s flimsy form factor poised to frustrate fleshy-fingered phone users forever

 

Most of us feel the average Subscriber Identity Module card is too small for our sausage-like digits, device makers loathe giving up that amount of space to an oversized plastic rectangle. Efforts to slim it down have been underway for ages, which is why some smartphones come with a Read the Rest of the story [...]

RIM Confirms BBX Phones Will Look Like PlayBook – Similar Resolution

We told you last month that the first wave of upcoming BBX phones would have the same pixel density as the BlackBerry PlayBook. Now we have more confirmation of that fact from PC Mag which interviewed Alec Saunders of RIM this week. Alec confirmed that the first BBX phones would Read the Rest of the story [...]

MobiHand Says They are “Committed to Developer Success” & “98% of Accounts are Current”

I have really been hoping that MobiHand would get in front of this issue and its nice to see them finally have a voice. Adriano just posted on their official Blog that they are “

Inside Secure announces NFC chips to help distinguish knockoffs from the real thing

 

 

If you can’t tell if a Rolex or a knockoff Prada bag is fake, your NFC-enabled smartphone will be able to. Toking on a long-standing problem with counterfeiting, French company Inside Secure has released the Vault150 security module, a NFC-based chip that can be embedded into any product Read the Rest of the story [...]

Television, the Internet, and South Park on the BlackBerry PlayBook

 

 

Though I may not be a child of the internet generation, I’ve lived the vast majority of my life with a keyboard under my fingers. Yes, I remember a time when Yahoo! was just a collection of blue-underlined links and my favorite search “engine” was Metacrawler. Over the years, it Read the Rest of the story [...]