Tag archive: BlackBerry Apps

Launched during January 2011, Starbucks Mobile Pay allows customers of the coffee chain to make purchases with an iPhone, Android phone or BlackBerry using a mobile application. The initial launch allows customers to make mobile payments at approximately 6,800 Starbucks locations as well as 1,000 Target locations. However, this number has climbed to 10,000 locations over the past eleven months by adding Safeway Starbucks stores and locations in… Read More

Finally, there’s been some confirmation on a very important PlayBook rumor that’s been around for months now. RIM has officially stated that it will open up the PlayBook for BlackBerry Java and Android-based applications – but of course, it can’t be quite that simple. In a press release, RIM explains that the Android Market itself won’t be operable on the PlayBook. Users will only be able to access Android apps via BlackBerry App World. And… Read More

BlackBerry and Facebook addicts can now download a new version of the Facebook app for BlackBerry, which is speedier and includes several new features.Version 1.9 attempts to bump the Blackberry app up to match its iPhone and Android competitors by including a search tool, a dedicated inbox, a new navigation bar, and better listings of friends and pages. In the dedicated inbox feature, users can choose to see their Facebook messages in their… Read More

Rhapsody has landed on the BlackBerry in beta form. The streaming-music service has been available for iPhone and Android users for sometime, but up until now has neglected Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. Rhapsody announced that the service is now available to users of “America’s hardest-working smartphone” through an app available at Rhapsody's website. It plans to make the app downloadable through BlackBerry's App World soon.… Read More

In a slight departure from conventional wisdom (and backed up by countless surveys and studies) that people don’t want to pay for content on the Web, a new research report from Nielsen claims mobile phone owners are willing to pay for apps. Nielsen announced these findings in a “State of Mobile Apps” report at San Francisco’s AppNation conference. In a survey of 4,000 mobile phone subscribers in August, 59 percent of smartphone users and 9… Read More

Why should iPhone users have all the fun? Though Apple likes to trot out stats about its ballooning app store every month or so (100,000 at latest count), BlackBerry App World has its own growing library of third-party apps, and it’s not clogged up with quite as many fart machines and virtual lighters, either. We dug out 25 of our personal favorites across five different categories to highlight the very best BlackBerry developers have to offer.

Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers. The free programs let users place calls that are routed over Vonage's network, at least for the international leg. The calls are placed as local wireless calls, using up minutes on the cell phone plan, although the iPhone will use Wi-Fi… Read More