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There aren’t many great themes available for the BlackBerry Tour 9630 just now. Developers are still catching up after the Plazmic CDK was found to be incompatible with the Tour. BlackBerry Cool has put together 10 of the best themes we could find for you to browse. If you know of others you like, feel free to comment.
Click through for the top 10 themes for the BlackBerry Tour 9630
The Mac OS user experience is one element where Mac trumps PC and it’s nice to have it on your BlackBerry. This Mac OSx Pro Edition these comes with Mac Stacks, the feature in your Dock which allows you to easily access applications and documents (seen in the above screenshot).
This theme has been recently updated and the latest features include:
Also, some highlights you’ll find in this theme include:
Purchase the Mac OSx Pro Edition BlackBerry theme for $0.99 until August 16th (regularly $2.99).
For QuickLaunch integration, purchase QuickLaunch for $4.99.
Mike Kirkup, Director of Developer Relations at RIM, has officially announced the launch of the BlackBerry Developer’s Blog.
The site will cover three main areas:
There are already some great posts up on the blog. My favorite is a post about Location Based Services. This is a fascinating and growing field in not only BlackBerry, but the mobile industry. Mike posted some excellent examples of how the technology can be utilized in BlackBerry applications such as:
I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next on their blog. Hit the site and leave a comment!
Also, congratulations to Doug Soltys, former Editor in Chief of BlackBerryCool.com for his first post on Inside BlackBerry announcing the Dev Blog. Looking good!
Most users in the BlackBerry industry are familiar with the various mobile IT admin companies and BoxTone are among the leaders. BoxTone provide software and support for mobile IT administrators and they just launched a new product. Having received many requests for a mobile IT admin starter pack, they have launched the BoxTone Essentials.
The BoxTone Essentials package includes key capabilities from the core platform and modules packaged specially to help companies get started. This product is aimed at the entry level, for organizations of around 500 users. BoxTone have also included their SmartAlerts system which provides early warning of pending failures.
Features of BoxTone Essentials include:
BoxTone Essentials is priced at under $10k for up to 500 users.
It has been a fairly intense month for BlackBerry. With the Back-to-School and holiday seasons fast approaching, RIM needs to churn out more devices and flood the market to meet the standard upswing in demand. That, coupled with Jim Balsillie’s moves to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes and RIM’s attempt at acquiring Nortel stock, there is no shortage of BlackBerry news. Given this amount of news, you can always expect an analyst to chime in with their views regarding where the stock is headed.
Phillip Huang, UBS analyst, has downgraded RIM to Neutral from Buy and cut his price target to US$88 from US$90 given the company’s price valuation. The analyst is also talking about concern regarding a new partnership between Verizon and Apple to distribute the iPhone.
“We’ve noted our expectation for Verizon Wireless to potentially announce a data-only Apple device this year,” he said in a note Monday. “Although we don’t expect a Verizon iPhone launch this/next year, we believe it could prove to be a sentiment headwind.” It is also possible the iPhone could launch on another operator in 2010, he said.
Peter Misek of Conaccord Adams, is taking a different view. He has maintained his Buy rating and US$95 target price for RIM. The potential government involvement and turnaround in the Nortel deal, has been cited as his reason for maintaining the Buy rating.
Personally, I don’t feel iPhone competition is a valid reason for downgrading stock. If you look at the numbers, BlackBerry dominates hardware sales because they cover a spectrum of users, while the iPhone only appeals to one form factor demographic and lifestyle user. With regards to the Nortel deal, I would be surprised if there is any turnaround. The government would have to declare that the sale of Nortel assets are a matter of national security, which is a tough case to make. So while there has been a lot of news this past month, the RIM ship is sailing steadily.
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