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Sometime back I announced the software that would be available by summer for your teens and preteens in an article entitled, ” Software Alert: SMobile Security Shield Parental Control Gives More Power To Parental Control“.  SMobile Security Shield is now available for your child’s BlackBerry, at the price of $29.99 per handset per year! This program [...]

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You may have heard of ROblock, and you might have even come across it in our article, “What To Do If You Lose Your BlackBerry“. The article had come out a few days prior to Kevin Bacon losing his. So in light of this, I have two software I’m reviewing and an announcement of a [...]

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Sorry for the delay on this one guys but I was incommunicado for the last 48 hours. One of trusted tipsters let me know that Verizon is scheduled to released OS 4.7.0.148 for the Storm in the next few hours. Specifically it will be starting Sunday May 31st at 3PM EST:

Customers will be able to get the update via the Web at www.blackberry.com/update beginning Sunday, May 31 from 3 p.m. Eastern Time. Verizon Wireless will also be rolling this update out to customers through an over-the-air download beginning Sunday night (10 p.m. Eastern Time). To get the download over the air, go to Options> Advanced Options > Wireless Updates. 

Many of you have already been sporting 4.7.0.148 for quite awhile but its good to see that Verizon will finally be bringing the Storm OS into 2009… Let us know when you spot the update!

RIM has really set the bar low when it comes to BIS releases. There have been a few exceptions like 2 way sync of email but overall they just seem like a marginal upgrade that took RIM 3 months to release. Josep spotted this one knowledgebase article on RIM’s website detailing the new features in BIS 2.7. I can’t say I really care for any of them… I cannot believe that these features are high on the requested feature list for BIS.

What is the BlackBerry Internet Service? 

BlackBerry Internet Service 2.7 includes improvements to the BlackBerry smartphone user experience, including improved usability and email account integration.
Help Screen

The improved Help screen is designed to allow the following:

• Send service books
• Open the BlackBerry HELP web site on the BlackBerry smartphone
• Access BlackBerry® Answers
• Contact information for wireless service providers

Close Option

• The close option allows subscribers to close the Email Settings application easily.

Language Options

• The BlackBerry Internet Service UI is now available in Thai and Indonesian.

Have you seen Whippoh? It’s another one of those funny apps that you might show off around the office water cooler. This app is designed by Fabian Heuwieser who also designed one of my favorite apps called VibAndRing. Anyways Fabin let it be known on his twitter (@FabinMH) that Whippoh is now available for a [...]

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Speaking of BlackBerry Themes… Our buddies over at Elecite have just introduced a hot new theme for the Bold, 8900 and Storm! The theme is called Mechanism and features an MP3 Player design with neat switches. Not only that but this theme features 7 customizable sliding icons that can be hidden by hitting the switches. [...]

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Thanks to Vicky from BerryReview, she posted a really eye appeasing theme released from Hedone Design. It has blades of grass in the background and the icons have an orange design to them. There are nine customizable icons and six are on the top bar, three are on the left. Date, time, and messages are all [...]

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  SmrtGuard-Your Smart Phone Guardian is one of the great apps that was featured at WES, and it’s all about the security. We featured it in an article “What To Do If You Lose Your Blackberry“. Kevin Bacon lost his a few days later, he really should have read our article, but hind site is always 20/20. The moral [...]

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Thanks to Bla1ze from CrackBerry who posted the news about one of our favorite digital radio apps that is great and free has upgraded to v2.0.2, and it’s time for you to upgrade your Slacker. The application has been improved to optimize performance and make it run faster, and remove some gaps when skipping or [...]

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Today’s economy might have everyone pinching pennies, but there are a few things that are excluded. Sometimes the best things in life are FREE, yes free, and in the BlackBerry Sync Store you’ll find some of those gems. Today’s gem is an app called BuzzMe v1.1.2 by BigTinCan, and it’s something you might like. BuzzMe is [...]

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