Monthly Archive for June, 2009Page 16 of 29

Verizon CEO says Tour and Storm 2 coming soon

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The CEO of Verizon, Lowell McAdam, loves to tease us with news of upcoming devices. A couple weeks ago, he said that “over the next six months or so you will see devices like Palm Pre and a second generation Storm.”

Well he’s recently elaborated on that statement at the Barclays Capital conference in New York.

“Over the next six months or so,” he said, “you will see devices like the Palm Pre and the Cousin on our network from Palm. You will see a second-generation [BlackBerry] Storm. You will see a new device we call the Tour from BlackBerry as well. That is an upscale of any other QWERTY-based devices that we have from BlackBerry today.”

It’s hard to extract anything tangible from his comments which have clearly been well-rehearsed. In general, you can expect a CEO to use a longer release schedule to avoid concerns that the company cannot make a deadline. The under-promise-over-deliver factor here could put the Tour release this August and the Storm 2 around September/October.

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Mobile signature capture technology from Echosign

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EchoSign Spring/Summer 2009 Release from FromEchoSign on Vimeo.

In recent years, there has been an incredible uptake in the number of mobile merchant companies. Increasingly, businesses are able to accept payments to a mobile device and there are a wide variety of ways for them to do this.

Echosign is a mobile friendly electronic signature technology, giving companies a way to embrace the shift to mobility and conduct business even faster than relying on the traditional Web.

Features of Echosign include:

  • Accept signatures from the web, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm Pre, fax, Salesforce.com, Zoho, Google Apps, Google Docs and Adobe Acrobat.
  • Edit, share, approve, send and sign documents while on the go.
  • A new “handwritten” biometric signature captures the experience we all know from signing on a pad at a supermarket or retail store.

Try Echosign on a free trial.

Carrier-side adult content control by Flash Networks

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Recently, a BlackBerry Cool reader emailed me asking how to protect his daughter’s BlackBerry from adult content. His email was indicative of a growing number of parents whose children own smartphones and have access to inappropriate content.

Flash Networks provides mobile Internet Quality of Experience (QoE) solutions, which include filtering adult content from the mobile Internet. Their product has been around for some time now, and has evolved into a formidable solution for controlling content on both the traditional mobile web, as well as the more complex web 2.0.

Existing mobile Internet safety solutions, such as “URL Filtering,” rely on pre-classification of the Internet into several categories. Requests are matched to a pre-existing list and access is either granted or blocked accordingly. More advanced solutions are able to address the challenges associated with “Web 2.0”, categorizing content on the fly, thereby enabling filtering of user-generated content websites, such as MySpace, which are beyond the scope of URL Filtering solutions.
Continue reading about the Flash Networks solution for content control

Win a free copy of Kasper Hauser’s “Obama’s BlackBerry”

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We recently wrote about the book by San Francisco comedy troupe Kasper Hauser “Obama’s BlackBerry.” The book has some pretty hilarious fake musings between Obama and his various presidential colleagues, including Vice President Joe Biden, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Hachette Book Group are giving away 5 free copies of the book to BlackBerry Cool readers. To win, comment an app you’d think Obama would like and why. We’ll choose our 5 favorite.

Only residents of the US and Canada are eligible to win; no PO boxes, please.

Read our post about Obama’s BlackBerry for quotes.

UPDATE: Thanks for participating guys. Here are the winners:

Leslie

Visible Vote is an app I think President Obama would love! He could give congress a heads up on how to vote on a bill w/o having to hold a meeting or send out staffers to the hill. He can vote yes/no/don’t care and send congress members emails via the app. It’s everything I think President Obama would love as a BlackBerry user. He is very aware of technology and this could pose to be an excellent step forward in the way he lets congress know how he feels on current bills.

elizabeth

I just looked at all the apps. I have and came to a conclusion that Obama will like the evernotes app. He could take notes, take pictures, and do a video thing for his kids. I could totally see Obama taking notes, taking pictures and sending them to his wife and kids! It’s because the app. I good to use anytime, anywhere and for whatever reasons! The president can’t miss a thing that’s why!

Richard

How about a copy of Google Latitude so he can tell where everyone is at any given time? So he knows if Biden has left the building or not? :) Wait, I suppose he the most powerful spy network in the world to do that for him, never mind…

Travis

Seriously?! Obama doesn’t want the app I’m going to mention, he has it. The Spoof App. Obama can make prank calls to the likes of Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, etc. He might even dial across the world and start WWIII with the app. He probably buys minutes in the app so he doesn’t have the 2 min ads.

Kreg

Obama has to have Quickpull installed. When you’re the president of the united states and your app memory runs low, you can’t just sit there and pull the battery out. You need to be a little sly with it and click a button and put the phone back in the holster until it boots back up.

All BlackBerry Curve devices including 8900 now FREE

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This weekend only, every BlackBerry Curve is free + Free FedEx Shipping at the BlackBerry Cool smartphone store. This deal includes the BlackBerry Curve 8900 for AT&T and T-Mobile.

This is an amazing deal and if you’re looking to buy a device, now is the time to take advantage.

Just look at what you’d be saving as an AT&T customer:

AT&T: BlackBerry Curve 8900 $149.99 – NOW FREE
AT&T: BlackBerry Curve 8320 $149.99 – NOW FREE
AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8310 $99.99 – NOW FREE

Remember, the sale is for 48 hours only!

All Carriers. All Colors. Ends June 14 at midnight. Save up to $350 now!




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