Our old buddy Simon pointed us to a new third party Twitter app for BlackBerry called Yatca (Yet Another Twitter Client Application). The app integrates your Tweets with your native messages folder. The app currently supports updates every 5 minutes, but expect this to change in the near future. New BlackBerry push APIs are becoming available, so we’ll soon see Tweets getting pushed so you can Twitter in real-time.
The winner is Lana G. who posted her haiku on BlackBerry Cool and won the attention of the good folks at WHERE.com. Lana wins a BlackBerry of her choice and will be contacted by the company shortly. Congratulations Lana G! I’m totally PB and jels (jealous).
The “Madness” of March is here and with it comes Viigo’s first ever pool. Join today and make your picks, every game from each of the regions, and see if you can come out on top and earn the title of Viigo’s NCAA basketball champ!
Playing is easy, with version 8 or higher of Viigo, add March Madness from within the sports service. You will then simply choose the teams you think are going to advance then follow along to see if you were right. Viigo will let you monitor the success of your teams and track the progress of the pool.
It’s free and it’s fun but you have to get in at least one hour before the first tip off on Tuesday, March 17.
Do you have the game it takes to achieve glory? To join, go here.
Love him or hate him, Dick Cheney is now a BlackBerry user. After spending 8 years as Vice President of the United States of America, he can now get push email and check his Twitter updates any time he wants. Cheney uses his BlackBerry a lot for getting the latest updates and information – “I follow a lot of issues,” Cheney said.
Cheney is also driving now. “Driving myself now,” Cheney said. “Secret Service follows me around, but they now let me drive myself.”
Got the word from IM that the CBForums have video of the BlackBerry Niagara 9630. The video is of pretty terrible quality and looks a little like it was filmed with a cameraphone. I noticed a slight difference when I pressed the HQ button on YouTube, but it’s not as satisfying as you’d like. Whenever these videos are uploaded, they need to go on Blip or Vimeo, because they can serve up much higher quality video. In any case, the device is running OS 4.7.1.10 and it’s very buggy. The phone still looks great!
CB has posted another pic of the BlackBerry Niagara. This time the device is turned on so you can see a few of the icons as well as it makes the pic a little better. The BlackBerry Niagara 9630 is shaping up to be one of the nicest looking devices in RIM’s product line.
