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Developers: Enter Your App Idea to Win a Trip to NYC Hackathon, $500 and a BlackBerry Bold 9900

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Kyle McInnes
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BBM challenge

UPDATE: Please email tips@blackberrycool.com if you are going to enter. We need to know to help give out the prizes.

RIM is hosting a BBM Apps Hackathon Event August 11-12 in NYC. It’s an exclusive event that gives developers the opportunity to participate in an apps-building marathon using the highly popular BBM Social Platform. RIM experts will guide participants through different development approaches and techniques that leverage the viral/social functionality of BBM Social Platform and best integrate with applications.

BlackBerryCool will be identifying the best developers for the Hackathon Event and giving away one trip to the event, $500 spending money, and a BlackBerry Bold 9900.

To be eligible for the Hackathon, the developer must:

  • have an idea for a new BlackBerry® application that incorporates BBM
  • have the capability to build a BlackBerry smartphone app with their idea
  • have a laptop with all the software, accessories and equipment needed to build their app, including a laptop loaded with BlackBerry® WebWorks™ or BlackBerry® Java®
    be a resident of the United States, District of Columbia (excluding Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, New York and Florida) or Canada (excluding Quebec)
  • be able to travel to attend the BBM Apps Hackathon Event (“Event”), August 10-13, 2011, and be able to confirm such availability within 48 hours of potential winner notification from RIM
  • understand that the Event will be filmed and that by participating in the BBM Apps Hackathon Contest, consent to the filming of their developer story and the use of their image

Ideally, the winner will have a BlackBerry app that they want to integrate with BBM.

Click through for the rules of the contest and more details or head over to bbmnyc.com to get started.
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Do You Suffer from BlackBerry Neck? Get a BlackBerry Facial

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BlackBerry Cool
on June 24, 2011, at 9:47 AM
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The latest ailment is called BlackBerry Neck and it comes from looking down at your BlackBerry a lot, causing unsightly wrinkles. The treatment for BlackBerry Neck comes from a Manhattan aesthetician who has concocted the BlackBerry Facial. The treatment involves exfoliation consisting of “a neck cleansing, a peel with sapphire stones, another peel, a hydrating serum, and then some lymphatic drainage.” After your facial, you get 20 minutes of a strange light followed by an oxygen mask. The whole process takes 45 minutes and should revert your neck to its former glory.

Overall, this seems like something we should just file under “only in New York.”

NYC Transit App for BlackBerry – see schedules offline

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Applico has released their NYC Transit application for BlackBerry. The application allows you to check multiple schedules, including those for the New York waterways, Metro North Trains, New Jersey Transit buses and New Jersey Transit trains.

With Applico’s BlackBerry app, you can see schedules without a network connection because the schedules are downloaded locally to your BlackBerry when you install. The app will even remember your last route traveled, in case you forgot how to get where you were.

Download the NYC Transit App from your BlackBerry browser.

[ED NOTE: Sorry, this app isn't free. It's $5. Thanks for sending in the update. Also, this app is geared towards commuters so it won't be too helpful for local residents.]

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