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UPDATE: Reports are coming in specifically from Ontario, Canada. Just to be clear.
We’re getting reports that the Rogers 3G network has been shotty all day and in many cases going down completely. If you’re experiencing problems, turn off your 3G connection and you should be good. We’ve heard that there was a planned BlackBerry service outage yesterday and I doubt the two are related but you never know.
Elecite have a new theme called Halcyon that comes with a bottom dock that contains 9 locked and ordered application icons: contacts, messages, calendar, tasks, memo, profiles, browser, facebook and Twitter (UberTwitter). Each icon is oversized and the calendar and messsages apps have a hidden Today preview area. Halcyon also features an 8-9 customizable icon menu and a weather slot.
This theme would be great if the locked icon set are apps that you use a lot. Halcyon would therefore make for faster access to the apps you love.
Since we last wrote about Kryos at Dev Con, they have been busy on their Velocity platform for BlackBerry, making it faster and more feature-rich.
Kryos help companies build BlackBerry applications using their platform called Velocity. In version 1.3 of Velocity, Kryos have improved the speed of their platform, as well as they have included features for better application design including tabbed navigation.
More information available from Kryos including a free trial and product roadmap.
RIM are rolling out two new apps for the enterprise market including IBM’s Lotus Quickr and Connections. These apps are intended to foster greater collaboration in an organization and do so by connecting users in a variety of ways.
Lotus Quickr brings the organization together by making libraries, folders and content easier to download. Lotus Connections allows users to build a community, share bookmarks and blog from their device. Combined, the apps should help foster a great sense of community in an organization.
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Mblware, the guys behind BlackBook, mblVault, facerate and ShakeItUp, are discounting all of their software 30-40% off for the month of January.
Here are some of the deals:
BlackBook ($2.99) – Hide contacts, calls, and messages on your phone.
mblVault ($2.99) – Encrypt, Hide, and Secure sensitive files, pics, videos, etc.
ContactOrder ($1.99) – Re-Sort your contacts in any order you like.
ShakeItUp ($2.49) – Shake your Storm to run email, sms, music, and more. Skip songs by shaking too.
faceRate ($1.99) – Take a pic, and find out how scientifically beautiful you are.
mblStats ($1.99) – An all in one stats tracker.
Be sure to check out all of mblware’s apps in the BlackBerry Cool Store.
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