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Alec Saunders and Marty Mallick take a leap of faith for BlackBerry developers

Posted by Adam Zeis on 29 Jan 2013 12:41 pm
While in Las Vegas for CES this year, Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations, and Marty Mallick, Sr. Director, Strategic Business Development, set out to prove how dedicated that are to BlackBerry developers. They took to the top of the Stratosphere Hotel to take the longest standing free fall jump in the world - 855 feet down - all to show their support for BlackBerry developers. Very cool...
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Alec Saunders discusses applications for BlackBerry 10 during the BlackBerry Jam keynote

Posted by Michelle Haag on 25 Sep 2012 9:54 pm
Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at RIM, also took the stage during the keynote at BlackBerry Jam this morning. Since Alec is directly involved with developers, he spoke about the applications we can expect to see on BlackBerry 10, including first looks at the Facebook app for BlackBerry 10. He also brought Marty Mallick up on stage to discuss the new...
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RIM pledges to keep on loving BlackBerry devs in awesome music video

Posted by Simon Sage on 25 Sep 2012 12:14 pm
At BlackBerry Jam Americas, Research In Motion's awesome developer team blew into song to win the hearts of those making BB10 apps. Here's RIM's Alec Saunders and his crew, totally rock-and-rolling this. 
The reports of RIM bleeding developers have been greatly exaggerated
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The reports of RIM bleeding developers have been greatly exaggerated

Posted by Bla1ze on 13 Jul 2012 12:37 pm
Earlier, Chris wrote about how the Baird Equity Research survey went wrong and now, Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations, Research In Motion has taken to the BlackBerry Developer Blog to address the report as well. In the very direct post from Alec, he states he was shocked to hear the information in the report because they really don't reflect that of reality. As man who is traveling the...
Alec Saunders shares insight into RIM, their future and BlackBerry 10 at Mobile Monday in Indonesia
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Alec Saunders shares insight into RIM, their future and BlackBerry 10 at Mobile Monday in Indonesia

Posted by Bla1ze on 5 Jun 2012 8:10 am
Alec Saunders, Vice President Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at Research In Motion has been doing a bit of international traveling as of late, all for the cause of spreading the RIM word and bringing awareness to BlackBerry developers. His most recent trip took him to Kuningan, South Jakarta where in addition to speaking to BlackBerry developers at a Mobile Monday Indonesia...
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Missed the BlackBerry 10 Jam Keynote? - Watch it here

Posted by DJ Reyes on 17 May 2012 12:07 pm
A lot of BlackBerry developers who travelled to Orlando to attend BlackBerry 10 Jam were left feeling excited for the future of BlackBerry development after the event. Alec Saunders gave the keynote speech for BlackBerry 10 Jam but recording was not allowed within the auditorium. However, RIM themselves filmed the keynote but have only previously released snippets of it. If you've been...
99,500 apps available in BlackBerry App World, 25 percent of which were built for the BlackBerry PlayBook
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99,500 apps available in BlackBerry App World, 25 percent of which were built for the BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted by Bla1ze on 1 May 2012 3:28 pm
While on stage for the BlackBerry 10 Jam keynote, Alec Saunders, Vice President Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at Research In Motion revealed some numbers for BlackBerry App World. As it stands, there is now 99,500 apps available within BlackBerry App World, 25 percent of which have specifically been built for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Saunders took this time to note the fact...
Pivot points and cowboy spurs
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Pivot points and cowboy spurs

Posted by Chris Umiastowski on 18 Apr 2012 11:11 am
Yesterday evening, Simon Sage brought to our attention an interesting blog post that RIM VP of Developer Relations made. Except this post by Alec Saunders was not on the developers blog. It was a personal post on his own blog. You can read it here. Much of the CrackBerry team was surprised at the post. In short, Alec was writing an open letter to another small company CEO friend of his in...
Alec Saunders clears up the debate on the future of side-loading for the BlackBerry PlayBook
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Alec Saunders clears up the debate on the future of side-loading for the BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted by Michelle Haag on 9 Apr 2012 11:09 pm
There has been a lot of discussion lately following some tweets that Alec Saunders, RIM's VP of Developer Relations, posted regarding removal of the ability to side-load apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook. While some people were indifferent or thought it was a good idea to do away with the method, the majority of users that weighed in were not happy about the removal and in fact many were...
#BeBold RIM's VP of Developer of Relations Leads by Example at BlackBerry DevCon Europe
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#BeBold RIM's VP of Developer of Relations Leads by Example at BlackBerry DevCon Europe

Posted by Michelle Haag on 7 Feb 2012 5:13 am
RIM's new VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, took the stage at BlackBerry Devcon Europe after new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins to discuss the new BlackBerry Developer website, BlackBerry Jam, and a ton of other improvements and additions coming to BlackBerry developers. Presentation aside, the first thing we noticed was Alec's awesome t-shirt. Bright red with white lettering, the slogan...

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