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BlackBerry Taps Star Power to Market BlackBerry 10

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BlackBerry has a odd tradition of tapping star power to sell cutting-edge technology. It’s a big challenge to explain the features and benefits of something complex to a consumer market made up of a young and a less technically inclined audience. This time BlackBerry has enlisted the help of some extremly talented people: Robert Rodriguez, Neil Gaiman, and Alicia Keys. They’ll be leading the charge in ushering BlackBerry into an era where smartphones are the primary tools of the creative and the successful.
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Microsoft to Migrate Over 100 Million Messenger Users to Skype

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Yesterday Microsoft emailed their millions and million of Messenger users letting them know that they plan to retire their IM service in two months time and migrate all their accounts over to Skype.
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Browsing Facebook on the BlackBerry 10 Browser is Going to be Amazing

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RIM has been working on making sure the BlackBerry 10 browser works well with Facebook with the help of Facebook’s HTML5 Ringmark test suite. This will enable Blackberry 10 users to access more games and rich media while browsing Facebook from the browser.
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Gameloft Announces 11 Games Coming to BlackBerry 10 Smartphones

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Gameloft has been a big supporter of BlackBerry throughout the legacy BlackBerry OS and at BlackBerry World, the company has announced its continued support. Gameloft has announced that a lineup of 11 games are coming to the BlackBerry 10 platform. The games are being optimized for the new platform using the BlackBerry® 10 Native SDK and includes games such as Shark Dash, N.O.V.A. 3: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance, Ice Age Village and Oregon Trail: American Settler, and more.
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5 Features We Want To See On The BlackBerry 10 Developer Alpha Smartphone

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At the BlackBerry 10 Jam, developers are going to get a limited edition smartphone featuring a prototype of BlackBerry 10. The smartphone isn’t meant as a launch device for consumers, and it’s specifically meant so developers can test their applications on the device. So given that we know this is RIM’s strategy, what features should this smartphone have? Here are 5 features that we believe are important for developers to make great apps for the BlackBerry 10.
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Free Social TV Watching App Yap.tv Now Available for BlackBerry Smartphones and PlayBook

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Yap.TV is a pretty cool service that lets you navigate TV shows via an up-to-the minute program guide that gives you the latest shows as well as what’s trending. The app gives you insight into not only what the show is about, but what people are saying about it on the Internet. Watching the latest episode of Walking Dead and getting sick of the slow plot development? Get in on the conversation. With Yap.TV, you can connect yourself to a community of people watching TV and it adds another layer of entertainment. Yap.TV was previously only available on iPad, and it is now available for BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet.
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