Thorsten Heins gave the keynote at DevCon Europe and talked about some of the plans that RIM has to get developers on board with BlackBerry. One of the interesting elements of his keynote was that he said the company has approved 125,000 more PlayBooks to go out to developers to encourage development. These PlayBooks will go out to developers who attended DevCon Europe as well as there will be free devices given out at hackathons around the world. We’ve been to a couple hackathons hosted by RIM and they haven’t quite figured them out but they’re moving in the right direction.
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PewPew is a really popular tablet game that has been featured in the Android Market and has received some really amazing reviews. Those with an Xbox and access to Xbox Live Arcade will probably see the resemblance to Geometry Wars. The game is really fun and addictive and best of all, it’s free.
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Photo Studio is a free app that gives you effects and frames for your pics. The app has been updated with more frames and pics as well as the app is now BBM connected. There are a few other updates along with this app and it’s definitely worth the free price tag.
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We got a tip today that the servers used for updating the PlayBook may be having some issues today. If you’re trying to update your PlayBook and you’re getting an error that says “could not connect to update server” you’re not alone. According to the support forums, there are at least a few other users having this issue and hopefully it gets resolved soon.
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The guys and girls at Smarter Apps are celebrating the one year anniversary of Angry Farm with a new version and a sale. Angry Farm is a fun alternative to Angry Birds and has been an incredible success story for gaming on the BlackBerry platform. In the new version of Angry Farm, there are 50 new levels added for a total of 250 (way more than Angry Birds). There’s also a DYNAMITE feature that lets you blast your way through levels once per hour.
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Select Start Studios is a mobile app development shop based in Ottawa, Canada and it was recently acquired by the up-and-coming eCommerce company Shopify. The acquisition makes a lot of sense as eCommerce is increasingly happening on mobile devices and rather than Shopify outsourcing its mobile efforts, it made more sense for Shopfiy to acquire a group like Select Start and develop the mobile products internally. While Select Start promoted the fact that it does cross-platform development and included BlackBerry, the company is better known for its iOS products such as Getaround.
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