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11/24/10--08:12: Blackberry Playbook makes acting debut in new Black Eyed Peas video (chan 1576711)

The new Black Eyed Peas video to their song “The Time (Dirty Bit)”, from their forthcoming album titled The Beginning, dropped today – with the also forthcoming Blackberry Playbook tablet making it’s acting debut! Seeing the Playbook ‘in action’, it becomes very apparent to me, that the Playbook – with it’s 7 inch 1080p HD [...]


01/20/11--00:57: Starbucks Blackberry App | Pay for your Venti with your Blackberry (chan 1576711)

Starbucks has taken the customer experience to yet a new level, with the introduction of its Starbucks Card Mobile App available for both Blackberry and iPhone smartphones. The Starbucks Card Mobile App allows Blackberry users to instantly pay for their Starbucks purchases by tapping their phone on a countertop scanner while displaying the Starbucks Card [...]


01/28/11--20:54: DigiTimes: Blackberry Playbook in production (chan 1576711)

Research In Motion (RIM) has begun production of the highly-anticipated Blackberry Playbook Tablet PC. According to Digitimes, 150,000 to 200,000 units are being produced per month, with the first shipments being ready to send out as early as February. The Blackberry Playbook is being manufactured by Quanta Computer Inc. in Taiwan, a strategic move by [...]


01/30/11--15:49: My Blackberry is not working! (chan 1576711)

Classic clip from the BBC – isn’t geek humor great?!?


03/20/11--09:22: Blackberry Playbook will feature Microsoft Office 365 (chan 1576711)

Research In Motion (RIM) and Microsoft announced a partnership to integrate Microsoft’s cloud-based applications into BlackBerry smartphones and the upcoming PlayBook tablet PC. This is very welcome news to many Blackberry business users, who will be able to have truly seemless, secure integration between their desktop or office PCs, and their handheld or tablet – [...]


03/24/11--00:52: Woot! 12 minutes of BalckBerry PlayBook goodness (chan 1576711)

There have been several promo type videos of a minute or two in length featuring the BlackBerry PlayBook to date, and lets not forget the PlayBook’s acting debut in the recent Black Eyed Peas video “The Time”, but this is the first in-depth hand on with the PlayBook that I have seen yet – and [...]


03/24/11--21:59: Rumor confirmed – BlackBerry PlayBook will run Android Apps (chan 1576711)

Rumors have been circulating now for weeks that the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will support apps built for the Google Android operating system. Well, Thursday RIM confirmed it in a press release. WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 24, 2011) – Developers wanting to bring their new and existing apps to the highly anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBookTM tablet [...]


05/30/11--05:59: FLASH – Savior of the tablet computer! (chan 1576711)

Here is the latest BalckBerry Playbook commercial which exploits the fact that the BlackBerry PlayBook is the only tablet computer to run Adobe Flash natively. Very cool commercial kickback to the Eighties! On a side note, Apple has releases the specs of the new upcoming iOS 4.3, and while it does boast a new Nitro [...]


08/29/11--10:54: RIM announces BBM Music Service Beta (chan 1576711)

Beginning today, RIM will begin a closed beta test of it’s new BBM Music Service in Canada, the US, and the UK. The new music service, geared towards the social experience, will cost $4.99 per month, and is a unique user experience built from the ground up by Research In Motion, not built upon any [...]


09/18/11--03:47: Rogers employees get HALF OFF BlackBerry PlayBook (chan 1576711)

On Thursday, BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) announced it would offer several price reductions – as well a major software update – to try to boost the ‘less than impressive’ sales of it’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Not long after the announcement, Rogers employees started receiving emails notifying them that they could purchase a 16GB [...]