BBtris, a BlackBerry Tetris game, is now available at a great discount.
Customers just pay $2.99 instead of $9.99 (save $7 !!!) if they purchase it before April 30th.
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BlackBerry Tetris BBtris now available for $2.99
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Xtify and Intuit have announced the “Intuit/Xtify Application Contest” to showcase the potential of integrating location-based services into rich Internet applications built on Intuit’s Platform as a Service, the Intuit Partner Platform.
To reward innovation in the use of location technology, Intuit and Xtify are offering up to $12,500 in prize money to the top location applications for two prizes: one determined by a panel of judges and second based on user adoption of entrant applications.
To enter the contest, entrants must create and release a small-business-focused application built on the Intuit Partner Platform that leverages Xtify’s location-enabling platform. The Xtify API allows Web applications to utilize location data tracked by a thin client running on BlackBerry, Google Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian OS smartphones.
Xtify derives location from the handset by extracting GPS and cell ID data, and then transmitting that data to Xtify’s servers – thereby eliminating the need to request this information from wireless carriers. The Xtify API on the Intuit Partner Platform allows developers to query for a user’s location at any time and receive latitude and longitude, a reverse geo-coded address and an accuracy metric.
The Intuit Partner Platform not only gives developers the opportunity to build Web-based applications, but also build successful SaaS businesses by taking the complexity out of managing infrastructure, hosting, user management, integration and billing. Developers can focus on developing innovative on-demand software solutions that solve unique and important problems for the four million small and mid-market businesses across the U.S. that use QuickBooks and the 25 million employees that work in those companies.
This is the tip calculator that you have been waiting for. Easy to use, very powerful, and it looks great!
Use this handy utility everyday to calculate tips quickly and easily. You can use Tip Calculator to split a bill amongst multiple parties. Tip Calculator also provides a handy ‘Suggested Gratuity’ page when you are unsure of the proper amount to tip.
Simply enter the amount you want the tip to be based upon (you choose whether or not to have the tip calculation include tax), select the number of people to split the bill, and tip percentage.
This application’s beautiful graphics are worthy of your BlackBerry.
Features:
- Split a tip between 1 and 20 parties.
- Easily pick a tip amount.
- Multiple rounding options to make splitting a tip easier.
- Suggested Gratuity screen will help you determine proper tip amounts for a large number of occupations ranging from tattoo artists to taxi drivers.
- Automatically stores last settings.
- Looks great!
The first 20 readers will get a free copy by using the coupon code BBCOOLFREETIPS.
Download Tip Calculator for the BlackBerry Storm for $2.99.
Never again wait for a table at your favorite restaurant with Viigo
Viigo gave us the heads up about their latest update which allows you to make restaurant reservations directly from your smartphone. Powered by Open Table, the service let’s you search restaurants by region so that you can plan ahead, even while on the road.
Barack Obama is getting a “souped-up, high security BlackBerry for use in and around the White House and during presidential travel.” The device is a BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, with some incredible security tweaks to make sure Kim Jong Il isn’t listening in on his conversations.
Washington-based Genesis Key developed the special security software for Obama’s new 8830, called SecureVoice, which will presumably run alongside the traditional BlackBerry OS. Officials from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the White House Communications Agency (part of the Pentagon’s Defense Information Systems Agency), Research In Motion (RIM) and Genesis Key all collaborated on Barack Obama’s presidential BlackBerry.
The security software was designed to provide access to NSA top secret information. In order for the BlackBerry to access this information, which is the highest grade of security classification, the software was required to be incredibly robust. The software not only works on Obama’s BlackBerry, but is compatible with any 8830 or BlackBerry Curve 83xx. This does not mean it will be available to consumers, but rather it’s needed to be able to communicate with other SecureVoice enabled devices.
Don’t expect any leaked screenshots!
[Al Sacco Via]
I feel awkward writing about unofficial BlackBerry OS releases because the thought of someone’s BlackBerry exploding and them losing all their data is unnerving. If you’re going to try this OS update, remember to take all the necessary precautions and back that BlackBerry up.
Download OS 4.7.0.132 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530.
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