Applications

“BlackBerry PlayBook is already recognized for delivering powerful performance, true multi-tasking, advanced web browsing and HD multimedia in an ultra-portable design,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. “With BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 we are building on this strong foundation, as well as leveraging our strengths in communications, social integration and productivity, to allow people to use their BlackBerry PlayBook in new ways throughout the day.” continue

BlackBerry 7.1 will begin rolling out from carriers around the world beginning today and over the coming weeks. The new releases of BBM, BlackBerry Traffic and BlackBerry Travel will be available on BlackBerry® App World™ beginning today.

“BlackBerry 7 delivered a next-generation platform for our customers around the world and the range of software updates announced today build upon the strengths of that platform to further enhance the mobile experience and make life easier, from managing daily tasks to planning big adventures,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. continue

If your BlackBerry becomes sluggish, is low on memory or additional data is not being received, the best way to handle this is to reinsert the battery. continue

Research In Motion has released an updated version of BlackBerry App World adding numerous enhancements over the previous versions. continue

BBM Music is an easy-to-use cloud-based service that enables social and viral music discovery by allowing users to build an evolving, community-based music library that is shared amongst their BBM Music friends. The size of the music library continues to grow as new friends join the community and each user can select music from a catalog with millions of songs from leading music companies – Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI. continue

Research In Motion today announced BlackBerry® Management Center – a free online service* for small businesses to centrally manage company-or employee-owned BlackBerry® smartphones in the cloud and protect business-related content stored on the handsets. The service is designed for businesses with up to 100 BlackBerry smartphones that access email services from an Internet service provider (ISP) or web-based email services like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo!. continue

It was only time that eventually smartphones would start being seriously targeted by malicious software in the same way as home PCs.

For a while, Windows have been doing Battle with Zeus, a Russian malware which has been designed to steal peoples’ banking information, allowing funds to be transferred from their accounts, in some cases to be emptied.

A new version named Zitmo (Zeus In The MObile) has now started attacking Android based smartphones. It poses as a banking activation application that says that it must be installed in order to proceed. Once done, it intercepts SMS messages that some banks use to notify users of access codes in order to authorise transactions. continue

The BBC announced this week that it will start a study on the current state of the UK’s mobile network coverage.

It is asking users of Android handsets to download an application that will measure the 3G outdoor coverage via GPS. The app has been developed by network analysis firm Epitiro who have in the past done study work for Ofcom.

The app runs in the background and collects data on the type of connection it sees is available and uses GPS to estimate the handset’s location. Once it has finished the study, the BBC are hoping to post the results on a clickable map. What users can see immediately when they use the app is a graph showing 3G, 2G connections and no coverage results split by percentage. They can also see a map showing their current location, although as this is done by GPS, the accuracy of the map is dictated by the type of GPS the handset has. continue

Still no news on the addition of the resident Email client. However this update has added 2 new apps/links i.e. BBC News and iPlayer. Under settings there is now the option to put the PlayBook into Flight Mode, which will turn off all wireless commuincations on the device.

RIM have also made available the latest User Guide for Blackberry PlayBook 1.0.7.

20 July 2011: Update – RIM have pulled this update stating “Some users were experiencing issues with Bridge & 1.0.7. We expect to release an update with a fix later this week.”

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BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. BlackBerry® Tablet OS v1.0.7 is available today and introduces a variety of new features and enhancements. continue