Tomorrow, RIM will be announcing its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2011. A conference call and live webcast will be held beginning at 5 pm ET, which can be accessed by dialing 1-800-814-4859 or by logging on at their site. A replay of the conference call will also be available at approximately 7 pm by dialing 416-640-1917 and entering passcode 4310313#. This replay will be available until midnight ET December 30, 2010.
This quarter, we’re sure to see some positive results given the success of the Torch, as well as some talk of the upcoming PlayBook. We’re also sure to hear Jim Balsillie pronounce T-Mobile “tee moh-beel”.
Frogger was the very first game Magmic ported to BlackBerry that was not originally designed and developed by Magmic. It was also the first one I did and it may have been the first branded J2ME game ported to BlackBerry. It was interesting from a number of aspects, which I’ll delve into, but it was a personal success for me as I managed to port the entire game in less than a week (granted, many, many hours over-and-above regular working hours that week); which seems more impressive now after I’ve seen so many porting efforts and how long they can take. Continue reading ‘The Story of Possibly the First Branded BlackBerry Game’
“Bill Shock” has been an issue that almost every heavy smartphone user has experienced at one point or another. With SMS, roaming, data and voice charges, your bill can pile up pretty quickly, regardless if you’re enterprise or consumer. Anomalous Networks is a company that has announced financing from the BlackBerry Partners Fund and Anges Quebec to help reduce Bill Shock and provide customers with alerts and warnings before they enter a roaming situation or are about to reach their plan limits. Continue reading ‘Partners Fund Invests in Telecom Expense Management Solution Anomalous Networks’
Mobile Future has released a really cool infographic-style video about 2010′s contribution to the mobile world. There are some really cool statistics in this video, as well as some key consumer trends happening right now in the industry. Two-K-10 was an incredibly eventful year with highlights such as:
Five billion apps downloaded – up from 300 million in 2009.
Five million Foursquare users — up from 200,000 users in 2009
347% growth in Twitter mobile usage.
200 million mobile Facebook users.
100 million YouTube videos played on mobile devices everyday
RIM and Amazon.com launched the Amazon MP3 app for BlackBerry with a catalog of over 14 million songs. The content is only available to users in the US, which is pretty dissapointing for Canadian users but nothing new. It could be that RIM legal and Amazon haven’t tailored the content for Canadians and Europeans yet, much like iTunes does, and the app will come soon.
