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Securing The Presidential Blackberry
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The Presidential Blackberry. Wouldn’t you love to get a glimpse of what’s on it? That’s precisely the problem, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin told WebProNews. While President Bush travels generally incommunicado–that is, unthinkably for most us, sans mobile phone–the President-Elect is in a very public argument for retention of his pre-election smart phone.

Top Five Blackberry Storm Reviews
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The new BlackBerry storm mobile device hit store shelves on Friday and sold over 100,000 units over the weekend according to InformationWeek. Not all of us are so eager to plop down our hard earned money without getting to know a device a little better though. Thankfully, there are plenty of people to review it and give us walkthroughs of the device’s capabilities, five of which are the subjects of this article.

iPhone Customers Most Satisfied
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iPhone maker Apple ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction among business smartphone users, according to a new J.D. Power and Associates study.

Apple received a score of 778 on a 1,000-point scale, doing well in the ease of operation category, physical design and handset feature factors. BlackBerry manufacturer RIM (703) and Samsung trailed Apple in the rankings.

Google, Microsoft Looking At BlackBerry Search

The nickname "CrackBerry" seems more appropriate than ever today as not one, but two major companies have turned their attention to the device.  Google Mobile App for BlackBerry comes from one corner, while a search deal is reportedly in the works between Microsoft and RIM.

Oracle Releases Social CRM Product
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In its attempt to even approach Salesforce.com in the CRM market, Oracle may have made an important leap.  With its latest launch – Oracle CRM on Demand Release 15 – the company has integrated some social networking capabilities.

Google Announces Trends for Google Checkout

As we come up to the last days of fee-free merchant services from Google Checkout, the Official Google Checkout Blog announced yesterday that they now have Google Checkout Trends. Patterned after Google Trends, GCT shows relative revenues from Google Checkout merchants.

T-Mobile’s Twitter Blocking

If you don’t understand it, don’t allow it.

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That could be the thinking behind why mobile operator T-Mobile has begun blocking Twitter usage in the US, and opening up a customer service debacle, not to mention a public relations one.

Google Mobile Updater for Blackberry Released

Google has released the Google Mobile Updater for the Blackberry, a small bit of software that keeps an eye on Google applications and helps you install updates to them as necessary.

BlackBerry Benefits From Google Mobile Updater

I’m not sure if Google plays favorites, but in the mobile world, it recently hasn’t seemed to do much more than play one-on-one.  Google Mobile Updater (“currently only for BlackBerry users”) is an example of this.

PubCon Day 1 – Quite a Schedule
I finally arrived in Las Vegas and bumped into Detlev Johnson while checking in to the Wynn. He showed me his cool new Blackberry Curve

Facebook, BlackBerry Join Forces

Combine an addictive device – the BlackBerry – with a popular social network – Facebook – and what do you get?  I’m not sure I want to know, but thanks to a new development, we’re about to find out.

Twitter Is Great For Reporters

Alright, I’ll jump on, even acquiesce. I have viewed Twitter as more of a social phenomenon kept neatly secret within the tech community – a bubble in which the brainiacs converse. I have watched and chuckled and dismissed. I may change my mind.

Superpages Serves Up BlackBerry Application

We all know that BlackBerry users can become just a tad bit absorbed in their devices, but that trait aside, they’ll now have less of an excuse for being late – Superpages.com just launched a local mobile application specifically for the BlackBerry.

Childbirth 2.0: Have Blackberry, Will Twitter

Who needs a birth certificate when you’ve got Twitter, Flickr, and Ustream to document the blessed event? Who’s ready for Birthing 2.0?

Google Named Most Significant E-Biz Development

Google properties made up three of the top 10 most significant e-commerce developments of the last decade, according the Software & Information Industry Association.

French Fear The Blackberry

Since servers for the addictive Blackberry wireless mail service reside in places like the United States, some government workers in France have been told to eschew using those devices.

Blackberry’s Social Media Marketing Mistakes

 Blackberry’s recent "Share Your Stories" campaign was inspiring for me, though probably not in the way they intended.  I actually love my Blackberry, but their entire "Share your Story" campaign just struck me as lacking in any of the lessons many other marketers have learned about Web 2.0 marketing and what works in social media.

Neutral News For Handheld Computer Market

According to the market research and consulting firm Gartner, the average retail price of handheld computers is decreasing, even as shipments worldwide are on the rise. Research in Motion’s Blackberry model led the growth, as the market leader experienced a 30.8 percent increase in shipments.

Del.icio.us Mobile
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Here’s a great tip I picked up from BlackBerry Hacks, a book by Dave Mabe.

BlackBerry Seeing Red Over RedBerry

After some seven years of trying to enter the Chinese market, Research In Motion had to be furious to learn of China Unicom’s announcement of its RedBerry service.

RIM Jams Yahoo Into BlackBerry
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Yahoo achieved a place in the pockets of millions of BlackBerry users in 60 countries through a new deal with Research In Motion.