To make up for yesterday, I’m at the keynote early, and in great position right up front. Compared to yesterday, the general session room is nearly empty, but that’s not going to deter me from live blogging my face off. Keep refreshing this page for the latest updates!
1:58pm Now it’s starting to fill up. I guess everyone was trying to squeeze in one more hallway meeting before we get started. At WES, you basically have to do everything on the move, or you will never get anywhere or do anything.
2:02pm BBCool Simon has just arrived, a very tall head in the crowd. Same format as yesterday: I’m on the blog, Simon on the Twitter and the Flckr.
We just received notice that SkyLab’s has a special promotion running for their popular GPS application, MobileTracker. Until May 23rd, it will be available for 14.99 USD, a hefty ten dollar discount!
MobileTracker essentially records your movements via your GPS-enabled BlackBerry, and allows you to export the data to software like Google Earth. Version 1.4 of the application new features like elevation tracking and coordinate geotagging for pictures.
Cortado (a division of ThinPrint) announced this week at WES the availability of their new corporate server. Along with “seamless integration into company IT environments”, Cortado is stressing their multi-use Present-to-Screen, which allows files of any format to be sent from a Blackberry to a notebook or PC screen. No special software is required, and users don’t have to convert their files to a different format.
The new version is available for download at www.cortado.com/ccs-blackberry. View the full press release after the jump.
Refreshed and back in tip-top shape, BBCool Simon and I return with one of our best podcasts yet, although you can probably attribute that to our guests: Rob Woodbridge of Rove, Will Hickie of WICKSoft and Dave Peak of LiquidTalk.
Listen in as we talk about the panel that these three gentlemen are participating in (”Every Laptop Should Be Left Behind”) and what it means for the future of mobility. Also, we talk about American political folk music, and why $150 million dollars isn’t that big of a deal.
Listen to the podcast via MP3, RSS/XML, or iTunes. To learn more about the Every Laptop Left Behind movement, head here.
This is fresh off the press folks: a friend at Rove just told me that they’ve given away their first of three $1000 Amazon.com gift certificates to one Jeff Kucaj, who was lucky enough to have the key that fit the magic box. There are still two keys left, so make sure to stop by their booth (#248).
Of course, if your key doesn’t fit, you still have another way to make a quick grand by participating in Chalk’s ‘How much do you love your BlackBerry?’ contest. Head to booth 114 for more info on how you can win.
Not at WES? Don’t worry! You can still win a sweet BlackBerry Cool prize pack. READ THIS POST to find out how easy it is to win.
Simon’s going interview crazy at WES this year, so I’m just going to let him roll with it. This time our 8′ friend interviews Viigo’s Mark Ruddok about Project Tango (video preview above), Enterprise Light, and communicating with open source platforms. You can listen to it over on the Best of WES page, or hit the streaming link below.
So, we chatted up Zenprise’s Ahmed Datoo about recent 64-bit update in version 4.0, and branch off into 64-bit servers in general. Take a listen over here, and be sure to keep an eye on our Best of WES podcast widget for the latest uploads.
Rogers has gone all official-like in it’s BlackBerry Bold availability, but we scoped out Vodafone’s booth at WES, and they were flashing the new handset pretty prominently in their ads. Of course, some of the first glimpses of the BlackBerry 9000 were off of a leaked Vodafone slide and a Rogers doc lambasted with “STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL”, so that’s no huge surprise. Good on Rogers for having a notification system set up, though – some of their BlackBerry releases were disturbingly quiet. AT&T has the U.S. exclusive, but you can expect the Bold from these carriers internationally this summer.
Seems like everyone and their sister wants one of our custom WES tee shirts, so we decided to hook you guys up. You can now head over to our Cafe Press site and buy the BlackBerry Cool tee in both black and white.
Who knows? Maybe our ‘Not Boy Genius‘ shirt will show up there soon…
BG, we have nothing but love for you. But sometimes, we get treated by certain companies that shall not be named as if we broke as many rumors as you — that, in some way, we were as dangerous as the Boy Genius.
To help eliminate the confusion, this year at WES we made special tee shirts that lets everyone know we’re just harmless BlackBerry-loving bloggers. Anyways, why are you looking at us, when BG is right behind you, nabbing pics of the BlackBerry Bold? Oops, too slow. You just missed him.
Note: I know I look constipated. That’s my best ‘dangerous’ face. See? Not Boy Genius!
To make up for yesterday, I’m at the keynote early, and in great position right up front. Compared to yesterday, the general session room is nearly empty, but that’s not going to deter me from live blogging my face off. Keep refreshing this page for the latest updates!
We just received notice that SkyLab’s has a special promotion running for their popular GPS application, MobileTracker. Until May 23rd, it will be available for 14.99 USD, a hefty ten dollar discount!
Cortado (a division of ThinPrint) announced this week at WES the availability of their new corporate server. Along with “seamless integration into company IT environments”, Cortado is stressing their multi-use Present-to-Screen, which allows files of any format to be sent from a Blackberry to a notebook or PC screen. No special software is required, and users don’t have to convert their files to a different format.
Refreshed and back in tip-top shape, BBCool Simon and I return with one of our best podcasts yet, although you can probably attribute that to our guests: Rob Woodbridge of 
This is fresh off the press folks: a friend at 
So, we chatted up 
Rogers has gone 
Seems like everyone and their sister wants one of our custom WES tee shirts, so we decided to hook you guys up. You can now head over to our 
BG, we have nothing but love for you. But sometimes, we get treated by certain companies that shall not be named as if we broke as many rumors as you — that, in some way, we were as dangerous as the Boy Genius.
