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Thanks to everyone who commented on the Super BabyGO! giveaway post. We are in the process of getting the winners their free copies of this cool app.
If you didn’t win, stay tuned because we will surely have more from the Zeebu Mobile team coming. If you didn’t get a copy but you want to try it on a free trial, go ahead and grab it from their site.
Super BabyGO! is available for $5.99, or on a free trial from App World.
Click through to see the 25 winners of a copy of Super BabyGO!
One of the more popular apps for BlackBerry is QuickLaunch, a simple app that gives you access to any preset application with a few clicks. In the same style is an app called Super QWERTY that provides you single shortcut key access to all your apps. Just launch the app with “q” from the main screen and follow up with the next corresponding key for whatever app you would like to launch.
Super QWERTY are giving away 30 copies of the software for you to try it out. Just use the coupon code BBCOOLSQWERTY to get one of 30 free copies.
Super QWERTY is also available on a free trial or purchase for $3.99.
Drop us a comment and let us know what you think of this app.
The BlackBerry Storm 9520 has a leaked version of OS 5.0.0.341 available on RS. There’s no telling how long it will be up so make sure you head over now before it gets pulled. We’ve heard the build is stable but if you find otherwise, comment and let everyone know. Also, you may have to be a premium member to download if there are no slots available.
BlackBerry Cool has been asking me about what BlackBerry apps can do and recently the notion of malicious applications has come up. In this article, I address what third party apps can do, and how it relates to the safety of your personal data.
The first area to look at are you emails. Emails can contain very private personal information including username/password combinations and if the user isn’t diligent, credit card information. It is possible to listen for incoming messages and pull out their contents, so you should always be cautious of any app looking to alter email permissions. I would have to look more into whether an app can read all of your existing messages that were already on your device before the app was installed. I can’t think of a good use case for this so I obviously haven’t tried it myself.
Username and Password information are commonplace with third party apps. As for stealing 3rd party passwords, it all depends on how the 3rd party app/service is storing things on the device. For example, a developer can listen to framework calls (I won’t divulge how) and check to see what parameters are passed into those calls (for example the identifier that specifies where a password is kept in persistent storage).
Continue reading about what BlackBerry apps can do and the security of your personal data
We’ve covered SmrtGuard a lot in recent months because they have a solid product we can stand behind. Well they’ve gone version 2.02 and the latest version comes with a free trial for new users. The free trial is risk-free as well, because now you can sign up without any payment information.
What’s new in v2.02:
• Risk-free Trial without payment information.
• Added Remote Backup Function to allow ad-hoc backup to be trigger remotely. (Issue a remote backup before a remote data wipe).
• Added a new Location History Tab on the SmrtGuard Dashboard that displays all of your historical locations.
• Remote Listen feature now allows users to issue call forwarding remotely. This is useful when users forget their smartphone at home but need to re-route calls to another phone.
You can check SmrtGuard out today in either monthly, semi-annual, or annual service subscriptions.
The BlackBerry Curve 8300 was the top selling smartphone in the US again, according to the NPD Group. RIM beat out the iPhone 3GS and 3G which came in second and third. What really drove home sales for RIM was taking the rest of the top 5 with the Tour and Storm.
NPD is saying the BOGO campaigns (Buy One Get One) were largely responsible for the Curve taking the lead, and prices for the devices are lower than ever. Globally, prepaid BlackBerry plans are driving sales, and regions such as Asia and Latin America are going to be big revenue generators for RIM.
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