The BlackBerry World Session Catalog is now live and it looks like this conference, despite the rebrand, is still very much geared towards large enterprise. This makes sense as RIM will likely save the more consumer-level news and sessions for the BlackBerry Developer Conference, which is conveniently located in San Francisco. This year’s conference is focused on business, IT, and development needs, as well as the tablet’s impact on the office of tomorrow. Continue reading ‘BlackBerry World Session Catalog Now Live’
Mike Lazaridis, Co-CEO of RIM, and Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe, gave a pretty awesome demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook and Adobe AIR apps running on it. The demo also shows off some cool features such as the multitasking with HD video and Adobe AIR apps.
At the end of the video, there is some really awesome news as well. If you create an app for the PlayBook, and it’s accepted to be distributed through App World, you’re eligible for a free PlayBook. So get coding!
UPDATE: This was actually an app being demo’d that was left on the screen. The screen you see isn’t actually anything from the PlayBook OS layer.
It’s pretty obvious that the QNX OS for the PlayBook isn’t ready to be handled yet, and that’s why RIM had the PlayBook behind glass cases (and still does). When something is demoed for the first time it’s almost always under very tight conditions and while it seems RIM rushed to demo, the expectations were a little low considering the PlayBook isn’t available until early 2011.
The BlackBerry Developer Conference is coming up soon and on the heels of the conference is GigaOM’s Mobilize 2010 conference on September 30th. If you’re at the Developer Conference and you’re looking to check out something on the mobile web side of things, this could be a good show. Some of the topics covered at the event will include: Continue reading ‘GigaOM hosting Mobilize 2010 Mobile Web Conference in San Francisco’
Reuters put out more details about the TD Newcrest technology conference where Mike Lazaridis spoke about the smartphone industry and where he believes it’s heading. One of the major topics of discussion was regarding data compression, and the fact that smartphones are increasingly being used to consume rich media.
There is an app-centric conference called APPCON going on in August that might be of interest to developers looking to network and share ideas/experiences. APPCON features 40 educational sessions, covering a wide range of topics regarding apps and the market. The sessions are vendor-neutral, and are about analyzing mobile app trends at a practical and technical level. APPCON sessions range from 2D/3D barcoding, game development, HTML5, augmented reality, security concerns, mapping apps and multimedia integration.
