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Akira is one of the most seminal anime series to ever be produced. If you’ve seen it, some scenes you might remember include: Akira’s crazy super bike, the mini-gun holding clown or Akira’s shape shifting destructo-arm.
Some of these nostalgic memories have been put together by PimpMyBerry in a free theme spotted over at BerryReview.
Download the Akira theme for the BlackBerry Bold 9000. *Must register to download*
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The Province has put together their list of the Top 5 Canadian companies and RIM is at the top of their list. Here is what they had to say about the company:
Research in Motion
When its executives aren’t trying to repatriate the Phoenix Coyotes, they’re busy making and marketing the BlackBerry smart phone.
Founded by Mike Lazaridis in 1984 in Waterloo, Ont., RIM has seen its share of ups and downs. Patent disputes and stock-option scandals have both made headlines for the wrong reasons. But when the president of the United States is rarely seen without your product, you know you’ve got something to sell to the world.
With annual revenue of approximately $11 billion for fiscal 2009 and with more than 12,000 employees, RIM has proven that Canadian companies can compete in technology.
RIM faces some tough competition in the smart-phone domain, including heavyweights Apple and Palm, but analysts expect its market share to grow into next year and beyond.
Recent polls have indicated that the majority of consumers who plan on buying a smart phone in the near future intend to buy a BlackBerry.
The only problem I have with the Top 5 is that the list included companies from unrelated markets. The next company on the list is Boston Pizza, which I had no idea was Canadian. I would love to see the Top 5 Canadian High Tech Companies.
Want a job at RIM? Looking for a job in the smartphone industry? Check out our job boards.
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radioBee 1.6 is a radio player for BlackBerry powered by SHOUTcast. While not free, which is the case with apps such as iHeartRadio, radioBee seems to offer a larger catalog of stations.
The app uses a proprietary algorithm to search, play more than 80,000 internet radio stations. The app provides popularity and reliability ratings for each station, along with station programming, genre, name, encoding, bitrate.
New features include :
Next Tuesday, June 30th, Zenprise will be hosting a free Webinar highlighting five best practices for managing heterogeneous smartphone environments.
Drew Collier, Systems Operation Manager at Shook, Hardy, Bacon LLP, will share best practice policies and technologies for addressing the support of heterogeneous mobile devices. He will discuss how to enable multi-device support while delivering on the promise of mobile productivity. Attendees will learn how to:
Be sure to watch the Webinar for Ahmed Datoo, vice president of product management at Zenprise, because he will be sharing the latest industry research on the growth of consumer-owned smartphones in the enterprise space. He’ll also conduct a live demo highlighting how to manage and monitor heterogeneous smartphone environments.
To register, visit the Webinar page and leave your contact details.
FancyFon allows companies to manage devices on their network over the Internet. Their mobile software interacts with servers and databases, to provide large organizations and government with the ability to rollout new services OTA as well as provide remote support and diagnostics.
FancyFon will be taking their services to the BlackBerry space, now that they have recently become an official BlackBerry Independent Software Vendor (ISV). The company began their Alpha support for BlackBerry back in December of 2008, meaning they’ve had 2 years of supporting other platforms until now.
While we’ve written about several companies that offer remote BlackBerry support, we’re going to continue to cover everyone in the space. It’s the easiest way to remain unbiased.
The FancyFon FAMOC device management platform can support multiple BlackBerry Enterprise Servers (version 4.0, with plans to support version 5.0 by Q3 2009).
With so many companies providing remote BlackBerry support, the market is becoming increasingly specialized and tailored to specific markets. It’s not clear what competitive advantage FancyFon provides, so perhaps we’ll get them on BlackBerry Cool to explain it themselves.
If you’re a big wine connoisseur, I have to recommend taking a tour of the vineyards of Israel. While the country isn’t particularly famous for its wine production, the climate is perfect for growing a wide variety of grapes. The North is somewhat cold and humid, while the South is hot and dry. In between lies a gradient of altitudes and temperatures that make for an excellent tour.
Natalie MacLean writes a newsletter for wine lovers and she’s recently launched her sommelier application for BlackBerry. The app works both online and offline, and offers more than 380,000 pairings.
To download the application, visit http://www.nataliemaclean.com/blackberry/ from you BlackBerry Browser. The app costs $2.99.
Here are some of Natalie MacLean’s 10 favorite Barbecue Food and Drink Matches:
* Planked salmon with Canadian or Oregonian Pinot Noir.
* Grilled portobello mushrooms with New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
* Shish-kebab lamb with Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon.
* Skewered chicken with Provencal Rose.
* Marinated pork chops with Italian Chianti.
* Barbecued spare ribs with Australian Shiraz.
* Grilled pepper steak with Rhone Valley Syrah.
* Herb-rubbed chicken with Argentine Malbec.
* Grilled hamburgers with Californian Zinfandel.
* Roasted marshmallows with German Late Harvest Riesling.
See Natalie Maclean’s site for more about wine tasting and pairing. Also, be sure to look for her app in App World.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is an essential part of many organizations. The server provides essential business tools such as content management and enterprise search, accelerated shared business processes, and generally better information sharing.
Quest Software, have announced that the latest version of Quest Web Parts for SharePoint. Quest Web Parts is a suite of tools to help build and customize more robust Sharepoint sites, applications, menus and dashboards through configuration rather than code.
Quest Web Parts for SharePoint takes many of the mundane and repetitive tasks associated with SharePoint’s web part configuration. With these tools, you save time and costs by accelerating the process. In addition, the latest version also includes a new DiscussionView web part that improves the ability to easily follow and track discussions, as well as dramatically improved charting functionality.
If you’re at The SharePoint Technology Conference, check them out at booth 109.
Otherwise, you can visit their website for more details and pricing.
One thing I have noticed about the BlackBerry dev community, is that they’re great about making apps that improve the phone’s functionality, rather than just offer a party trick. Not that we don’t have our share of party trick apps, like Fabian’s whip, but there is so much more.
A good example of this is a new app called Call Informer. The app is designed to help sales people quickly identify and respond to incoming calls. Having contact notes available before you answer a call allows you to make informed choices about your response.
When you receive an incoming call from a contact in your address book, CallInfomer displays the following; Caller Name, Organization, Number (inc. type such as Home, Work, Mobile etc), Contact Notes (and previous call notes) and the date/time of the last time this contact called you and the date/time of the last time you called them.
You can update the contact notes right there or you can choose to send an sms to the caller and all of this can be done from one screen before you choose to answer the call.
Features:
* Information displayed on screen as call arrives
* Contact notes and time of last phone contact is displayed
* Update contact notes without having to leave screen
* Send sms to caller without having to leave screen
* Perform all actions before answering the call
* Allows you to make informed decisions about your call response
Call Informer is available for $9.50 or on a free trial.
Bitstream has had a great time since the public debut of their browser at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February. A surge in new installations has led to an earlier-than-anticipated milestone: BOLT has now been installed more than one million times. Since its introduction, BOLT users have consumed more than 22 terabytes (22,000 gigabytes) of data from 61 million web pages.
The BOLT browser has several features that separate it from the competition:
• Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets
• Streaming video capabilities
• Split screen and full screen modes for easy navigation and viewing
• Ability to easily add and select favorites and view browsing history
• Intuitive keystroke shortcuts for easier navigation and content selection
• Protection against spyware and malicious or faulty add-ons
• 23:1 compression, which uses less data than competing browsers
Download the BOLT browser, available for free to anyone as part of its public beta test.
The ultimate free Twitter client has been sought after by BlackBerry users for some time now. UberTwitter is a leader in free Twitter clients and their latest updates are a great improvement to the app.
The latest updates include a new UI, reduced battery drain, the ability to delete Tweets, GPS status indicator, the ability to follow a thread of replies and direct messages now have their own notification profile.
Stay tuned because UberTwitter will be adding greater BlackBerry browser integration and features such as automatic URL shortening.
Download UberTwitter from the official site.
Click through for a long list of feature updates and improvements to UberTwitter
