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BlackBerry may have downsized for Mobile World Congress this year but they are there - loud and proud.
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BlackBerry may have downsized for Mobile World Congress this year but they are there - loud and proud.

Posted by James Richardson on 27 Feb 2013 3:28 am
If you are into smartphones and tablets in general you may well have seen from other sites that Mobile World Congress (MWC) is currently taking place in Barcelona, Spain. In previous years BlackBerry have had two large separate areas at the expo but as we detailed a couple of months ago things are a little different for them this time around. Due to the HUGE global launch of BlackBerry 10 that...
BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 coming to Bangkok, Thailand; not to Barcelona for MWC
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BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 coming to Bangkok, Thailand; not to Barcelona for MWC

Posted by James Richardson on 11 Oct 2012 9:45 am
Registration is now open for BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 (previously known as DevCon Asia) and this time around the tour will be heading for Bangkok, Thailand, There's a joke there somewhere but I shall keep things professional. The event will take place on 29-30 November 2012 at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre and if previous Jam dates are anything to go by this one will be jam packed...
RIM's quest for app developers in the wake of PlayBook 2.0
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RIM's quest for app developers in the wake of PlayBook 2.0

Posted by Simon Sage on 7 Mar 2012 11:05 am
RIM held a cozy little developer panel at Mobile World Congress, where VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, got folks from Zinio, Marmalade and Pacemaker to talk about precisely how awesome it was developing for BlackBerry. While most of the conversation was predictably positive, the Q&A with press was a bit more critical. I made sure to voice a few questions that were raised by you...
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NewBay streams cloud-stored music to QNX Porsche

Posted by Simon Sage on 2 Mar 2012 10:49 am
[YouTube link for mobile viewing] Remember the new Porsche concept car QNX was showing off at CES? You might have heard that they added some cloud integration, and were showing it off at Mobile World Congress 2012. Of course, we had to check this out for ourselves.  NewBay is an online content locker where you can store your music, pictures, video, and other files in the cloud for...
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RIM demos media sharing on BlackBerry 7.1 at Mobile World Congress

Posted by Bla1ze on 29 Feb 2012 10:19 am
[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] We've seen quite a few demos from RIM this week at Mobile World Congress and while some of the stuff we saw was just concept ideas, one thing they've been showing off is already available and that is the media server capability built into BlackBerry 7.1. We're not entirely too sure that what RIM's angle is here. They've never officially...
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PitchRocket helps you make quick, good-looking presentations on the fly

Posted by Simon Sage on 28 Feb 2012 11:42 am
The second concept demo from RIM's Sweden branch at Mobile World Congress 2012 is PitchRocket. This is both a PlayBook and smartphone app that help you quickly create visually-impressive presentations. Through the phone, you can create slide text and insert images, while the slide itself is dynamically created on the PlayBook based on whichever preset style you've selected. There would...
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RIM Sweden makes meeting collaboration colorful and awesome with Confetti app for BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted by Simon Sage on 28 Feb 2012 10:30 am
RIM's Sweden branch, previously known as The Astonishing Tribe, has made a big splash at Mobile World Congress 2012. One of two new concepts that they're showing off is called Confetti. It's a simple collaboration app that lets you easily transfer files between BlackBerry PlayBooks with a lot more flair than you'd expect. By mounting a webcam on the cieling, the PlayBooks are recognized,...
Who to follow from Mobile World Congress
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Who to follow from Mobile World Congress

Posted by Jared DiPane on 26 Feb 2012 11:03 am
  We know you love to keep up to date on all the latest and greatest BlackBerry news, and that is why you are here, right? Some of the fine folks of the Mobile Nations team have made the journey over to Barcelona to bring us the very best of the Mobile World Congress news, live! While we will be posting as much as we possibly can on the blogs, following them on other social networks can give...
CrackBerry at Mobile World Congress 2012!
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CrackBerry at Mobile World Congress 2012!

Posted by Simon Sage on 25 Feb 2012 1:16 pm
CrackBerry is alive and well in Barcelona! I'm here at Mobile World Congress 2012 to see what RIM is up to, particularly following up on the recent launch of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. Tomorrow will have a bunch of news (be sure to follow Android Central for the bulk of it), but we aren't expecting anything explosive from RIM; we already got our treat with the PlayBook update.  Regardless,...
BBC Content Going Mobile And Headed To BlackBerry
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BBC Content Going Mobile And Headed To BlackBerry

Posted by Bla1ze on 18 Feb 2010 5:32 am
Yesterday, as Mobile World Congress was winding down Erik Huggers, BBC Director of Future Media & Technology held a keynote speech declaring the BBC was taking it's content to the smartphone market. Indicating that BBC users were also smartphone users and the BBC was dedicated to providing those users with the content they wanted on their mobile devices. Starting with the iPhone, the BBC...

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