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CaddyHawk for BlackBerry turns your GPS-enabled wireless phone into a yardage tool. See your location on a golf course map and get accurate GPS distances to the front, center and back of the green. It will also zoom-in and refresh your yardage as you get closer to the pin.
CaddyHawk costs $14.99 per month and is available on AT&T’s Media Mall.
A special thanks goes out to all the BBCool readers who participated in mCaller’s Beta program. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable and constructive. The participants came from a wide range of professions, all of whom relied on their BlackBerry devices for accurate record keeping.
All the best to Larry Miller-Bopp, who won the Cool Tool Pack which includes:
mCaller would like to extend a big thank you to Larry and all of their other Beta participants.
For those who have not signed up yet, there are still free 12 month mCaller subscriptions available to those willing to continue with our Beta testing program.
For participation details please drop an email to support@mcaller.com.
BBFileScout is a file explorer and zipping application that is really impressive, especially being free. With BBFileScout, you can view files, rename files, move files, hide files, zip filles and heck, even associate files to a specific application ie: .doc to Documents To Go. It also includes an integrated text viewer.
A BBFileScout v0.6.9 is released and you can download it OTA.
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Both Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are incredible philanthropists. Their contributions to the social sciences, sciences and academia have really helped advance our understanding of this world. These philanthropic ventures require an incredible amount of cash and equity on a regular basis in order for these ventures to succeed as planned.
Recently, RIM’s executives Jim and Mike adopted what are called Automatic Securities Disposition Plans or ASDPs. ASDPs are plans that will allow Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis to sell shares of RIM at a predetermined interval, regardless of whether or not they are under a “blackout” period. A “blackout” period, would include such times as when quarterly financial reports are released. Normally, an executive would be barred from selling shares during a financial report release, due to concerns over insider trading and how their selling of shares would affect the market.
WIth the ASDPs in place, charitable foundations will be able to rely on the vast amount of funds being sent their way from RIM’s top executives. One example of this includes Jim Balsillie’s weekly share donations of up to C$100 million over 24 months to a charity he founded. Balsillie will also donate another C$57 million of shares to the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), an Ontario-based think tank. Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is matching Jim Balsillie’s contributions with about C$190 million over 22 months to his charitable foundation.
To learn more about ASDPs and how they affect trading regulations, see Gowlings.
Click through to read the official press release regarding the adoption of new ASDPs
Engadget got their hands on the new BlackBerry Storm 2 codenamed the BlackBerry Odin. The device that they did the hands-on with had the OS locked down so they couldn’t give us a real insight into the software side of the device, or much about the new touchscreen features.
The big news that has been confirmed, is that RIM has abandoned the original Storm’s SurePress click-screen and gone with a traditional fixed capacitive display for the sequel. The new screen is rumored to include haptic feedback as well, but the locked device couldn’t be tested.
Click through for video, hardware details and a gallery of great Storm 2 pics
A week ago, the BlackBerry Storm, Curve 8900 and the Bold launched in Egypt via Vodafone Egypt. The move was significant because previously, GPS-enabled BlackBerry devices were banned in Egypt.
Until April 2009, the Egyptian Telecoms Law 10/2003 outlawed the import of GPS-equipped mobile phones, and retailers found selling them could have their entire stock confiscated. The same applied to any kind of commercial use of GPS technology, which included cars equipped with GPS devices.
The ban on GPS-enabled devices upset many Egyptians who felt the military was using security concerns of GPS aided terrorism to justify cutting consumers off from the latest technology. The ban on GPS-enabled devices affected trade locally, as well as on an international scale.
Now that the ban has been lifted, Vodafone and RIM have began exporting devices.
Special thanks to Fisal for the tip!
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