Posted on September 20, 2010, at 9:26 PM .
BerryGoodThemes has updated their Super Mario Brothers BlackBerry theme to version 3.0. This is a great theme for any Super Mario fan, and it features Mario bouncing along the bottom of the screen between 4 hidden icons (browser, email, calendar and SMS). Move up the mushrooms to activate the hidden row of 6 icons which can be customized for any apps you choose.
The latest version of the Super Mario Brothers theme features the new OS 6.0 icon set and some general improvements to the theme.
More details about the Super Mario Brothers theme in the store.
Posted on September 20, 2010, at 5:55 PM .
RIM is sponsoring Startup Weekend in Toronto from September 24th to the 26th and providing 4 free passes to the BlackBerry Developer Conference in the run-up to the event. For those who don’t know about the event, Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. People will be giving elevator pitches for their ideas and startup ventures and the crowd forms teams around these ideas. This is a great opportunity to meet a potential co-founder and get your dream off the ground.
As part of their sponsorship, RIM is giving away 4 passes to DEVCON to those lucky individuals who can tweet most creatively about the event.
Click here for more details about the contest to tweet your way to DEVCON.
Posted on September 20, 2010, at 5:08 PM .
Here at BlackBerryCool we’ve been working with Widality for some time. The company, formerly Redwood Technologies, makes a cool app called Momentem. Momentem is a time tracking app that lets users keep tracking off the time they have spent on a client for billing purposes. Widality’s President Terry Hughes, has had a few articles on the site and has always been a helpful source of information in the BlackBerry space.
Read Terry Hughes’ The Three Rounds of the App Store Battle
As part of the Widality acquisition, Wmode will accelerate investment in Momentem, and expand the application to embrace the Super App possibilities, as well as multi-language packages, and multiple platforms including support for the new BlackBerry 6.0 operating system.
Terry Hughes, President of Widality, is joining Wmode as Head of Market Development.
Posted on September 20, 2010, at 4:38 PM .
Meebo is a web service that integrates all your social networks and communications in a single portal. Recently, Meebo launched their service in a BlackBerry app that is currently in beta. The app lets you connect and manage your Meebo account while mobile, and chat with friends from a number of different communication networks across the web including AIM, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook and more.
The beta Meebo app is free to download and you can test the beta at meebo.com/blackberry/.
Posted on September 19, 2010, at 11:32 PM .
We’re a little late on the roundup this week but it’s here nonetheless. Check it out!
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Posted on September 17, 2010, at 3:08 PM .
The Brookings Institution is one of the oldest think tanks in America. The institution is a Washington-based non-profit that conducts public policy research. The institution has a good reputation for being independent and non-partisan and their goals are to strengthen American democracy, foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and Secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
The institution now has a BlackBerry app available that features:
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