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The Tropical theme is a really decent theme that combines the flora of the tropics with some custom icons and screen transitions. Catalyst Multimedia has designed this theme with more than 20 shortcuts on the homescreen as well as custom icons and meters for your viewing pleasure.
The UAE has officially stated that as of October 11th, they will be cutting off BlackBerry services. The Telecom regulators have said that the fact that data is handled and stored offshore, outside of government control, makes BlackBerrys an unacceptable security risk.
For those who don’t know, the BlackBerry platform architecture relies on dedicated data centers (NOCs) which handle all BlackBerry data traffic over a secure, encrypted connection between the NOC and the handset. Some governments are uncomfortable with the solution because they have little or no visibility into BlackBerry data traffic, and are concerned that BlackBerry handsets may be used for criminal purposes.
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BBerryGo has released a cool game for BlackBerry that is reminiscent of the fun bar games that have you comparing photos and looking for the differences. The spin on Photo Quest is that there are up to 10 changes per photo that are randomly selected each time you play. Photo Quest also lets you challenge other players with an online leaderboard.
Features of Photo Quest:
Check out Photo Quest in the store. It’s currently priced at a reasonable $4.99.
A while back we were sent a BlackBerry 6 Powerpoint Presentation to brief developers on upcoming APIs and features of BlackBerry 6 that are of specific interest to developers. Most of what is in the package is common knowledge by now and we’ve written about its contents in several other posts. If you’re wondering where our knowledge of BlackBerry 6 came back when we were writing these posts, much of it came from this developer briefing. Click through after the jump to see an official presentation from RIM about BlackBerry 6 features as well as come points of general interest about BlackBerry.
Continue reading ‘Leaked BlackBerry 6 Developer Briefing Shows Upcoming APIs’
We recently reported that the UAE has been making claims that BlackBerry poses a security risk, as the data sent from a BlackBerry leaves the country to be processed by RIM’s NOC. As of October, the UAE will be disconnecting BlackBerry services until a “solution” can be found. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority director Mohamed al-Ghanim says “With no solution available and in the public interest … Blackberry Messenger, Blackberry E-mail and Blackberry Web-browsing services will be suspended until an acceptable solution can be developed and applied”.
This trend may continue throughout several more Arab countries that are known to keep a close eye on their citizens. Saudie Arabia is said to be next in line to cancel services.
Shape Services make an IM aggregrator app that comes in a free version called IM+ Lite. the app lets you connect, AIM, iChat, MSN, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ and more. The app was recently updated with the following:
Be sure to check out this free app in our store.
Shape Services also offer a paid version of this application which is also in our store.
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