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Twitter co-Founder Jack Dorsey’s new venture Square has been generating a lot of buzz but the payment system isn’t available for BlackBerry. ROAMpay looks like a similar service, with a dongle that attaches to the headphone jack and allows you to accept credit card payments to your BlackBerry. ROAMpay allows you to:
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Xobni is running a great sale right now where they’re offering Xobni for BlackBerry for $1.99. This price is available from their website as well as App World. For those unfamiliar with the app, Xobni (inbox backwards), scans your contacts and allows you to access those contacts quickly and efficiently. The app features:
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Wallpaper changers are great apps because you never get bored of your background and they save you from having to change it yourself. In BlackBerry 6, RIM has taken the time to make a very wallpaper friendly UI, with the icons able to hide to give you as much homescreen real estate as possible. Here are 10 wallpaper changer apps if you’re in the market for one.
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According to the CTO at RIM, David Yach, RIM has acquired the Swedish UI and design firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT). The acquisition has means that the TAT team will be joining RIM and bringing their talent to the BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphone platforms. TAT obviously has some pretty far out ideas about what a mobile UI should look like considering their concept video shown above. Hit the jump to see some of their videos and a glimpse of what we can expect from upcoming devices. Perhaps this company will be the ones to design the UI for the upcoming QNX enabled BlackBerry smartphone. Crazy stuff!
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While the 2010 Canadian New Media Awards may not be totally relevant to BlackBerry users, there are a couple Canadian companies you may recognize from the mobile space including Hootsuite and Polar Mobile. Hootsuite won the Digital Media Technology of the Year award which recognizes a technology that will most radically change the media landscape. Polar Mobile took home the Promising New Company of the Year award that recognizes a Canadian new media company that is “up and coming”. Hit the jump for the full list.
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RIM has updated the eBay for BlackBerry app and it now features eBay’s Deal Finder. With Deal Finder, eBay customers will be able to find the best deals. The feature compares prices on eBay.com with prices on retail websites such as Amazon and Best Buy, and brings shoppers the best discounts on movies, video games, electronics, music and books on eBay. The eBay app will now include deals from Deal Finder, which will replace the Daily Deal feature in the application.
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