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This theme looks fairly nice in that the icons are all 3D and the theme generally looks pretty clean. I also appreciate the circular battery and signal meter icons.
In order to create the 3D icons, the developer had each modeled and rendered in its own scene to give a true 3D feel to the theme. Some of the modern rendering techniques used feature caustics, global illumination and HDRI lighting.
The Calx Real Icon theme is available for the BlackBerry Bold, Curve 8900 and Storm for $7.
Shares of RIM rose after a Goldman Sachs analyst said she would buy the stock in advance of its fiscal fourth-quarter report, which is scheduled for April 2. Shares rose $1.89, or 4.6 percent, to $44.87 in afternoon trading.
In a note to clients, Goldman analyst Simona Jankowski kept her “Buy” rating and $57 price target for the stock, predicting RIM will meet fourth-quarter and first-quarter guidance – something she thinks will help its shares.
Although RIM has said that its fourth-quarter earnings will likely come in at the low end of its forecast range, which had called for 83 cents to 91 cents per share, the news will surely help shares regardless.
RIM is also predicting that revenue will be at or near the midpoint of its earlier projection, which was for $3.3 billion to $3.5 billion.
Goldman Sachs aren’t the only people backing RIM either. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters are expecting a profit of 85 cents per share on $3.42 billion in revenue.
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Radio Access Network equipment expenditure is expected to contract by 6% as wireless infrastructure vendors brace for a stormy year. The latest market data from ABI Research pegs infrastructure spending at about $49 billion in 2009.
“2009 will be a tough year for wireless infrastructure vendors,” says vice president of forecasting Jake Saunders. He identifies two underlying trends determining the course of this market.
First, deployment cycles for 2G and 3G coverage are rapidly approaching maturity in the industrialized world. There is the lure of 3.5G and 4G infrastructure spending, but 3.5G infrastructure upgrades (HSUPA, HSPA+) are more incremental in value. 4G deployments such as LTE and WiMAX 802.16m represent more than just software upgrades to the network, but will only contribute meaningfully to equipment spending in the 2011-2015 timeframe.
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Hope springs eternal here at BlackBerry Cool – despite record-breaking drops in GDP, skyrocketing unemployment numbers, and financial calamities the likes of which most of us have never seen, companies in the BlackBerry space are finding ways to thrive! Check out this week’s roundup of cool BlackBerry jobs:
Is the fact that mobile companies are still hiring a sign of the world’s utter dependence on our BBs?
See some more BlackBerry jobs posted this week after the jump
No doubt about it: times are tough these days… basically, if you can use your BlackBerry you’re too young to remember the last time things were this bad. We’re quite saddened to hear some of our readers are suffering the worst of this economic meltdown and find themselves this week without a job. BBCool has decided to do our part in helping out those hit hardest by this downturn: for all you Monday morning job hunters out there, we’re posting the best BB jobs from our SmartPhoneCoolJobs job board network. Here’s this week’s picks:
Employers: Do your part! Post your job up on BlackBerryJobs.com!
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