BlackBerry App World: Everything you wanted to know and weren’t afraid to ask (Part Two)

By Alex K., posted November 5, 2009 5:20 PM
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The Inside BlackBerry commenting system suffered through an error over the weekend, making it impossible for our dear readers to submit new questions in response to part one of my Everything you wanted to know about BlackBerry App World™ post. Thankfully, I was able to "surf the Internet" and find some BlackBerry App World questions that need answering. Thank you, Internet!
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BlackBerry App World: everything you wanted to know and weren’t afraid to ask (Part One)

By Alex K., posted October 30, 2009 5:04 PM
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It's time once again for more BlackBerry App World™ goodness! My goal today is to answer a variety of BlackBerry App World-related questions submitted by you, the readers, as well as a few gleaned from the MyBlackBerry community. In future posts we'll walk through BlackBerry App World and BlackBerry App World web store features to maximize your app searching experience. Let's get started!

Note: Comment error has now been fixed on this post. Get commenting! We'd love to hear your feedback.
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Meet BlackBerry Storm2 Product Manager Yasser Mirza

By Douglas Soltys, posted October 27, 2009 2:45 PM
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Touch screen BlackBerry® smartphone fans will soon have a new family member to welcome with the announcement of the BlackBerry® Storm2™ smartphone. While there are great resources on BlackBerry.com to learn more about the new BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone, I thought you would be interested to get some information straight from the source: Yasser Mirza, Product Manager for the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone.

Who are you and what do you do?

I'm a CDMA Handhelds Product Manager, which means it's my job to work with the various engineering, marketing, and business groups to help identify, plan and bring to market new BlackBerry smartphone solutions for the CDMA network standard. 
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5 BlackBerry Safety Tips to Protect your Personal Information

By Alex M, posted October 23, 2009 4:24 PM
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Hello world! My name is Alex M. and I'm a Security Product Manager at Research In Motion (RIM). My job is to make sure that folks like you and me are safe when we use a BlackBerry® smartphone. What do I mean by "safe"? Security is about letting the good guys in and keeping the bad guys out. Sounds simple, right? Just don't tell that to my boss. =D

BlackBerry smartphones come with a huge set of built-in security features, but how do we use them and what do they really do? Those are the questions I'll be trying to answer with every post. Let's start from the beginning: protecting your personal information.

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BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac OS: v1.0.1 now available!

By Andrey, posted October 22, 2009 11:36 AM
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In case you haven't heard the news, the first update to our BlackBerry® Desktop Software designed for the Mac OS platform is now available. The last two weeks since the release of BlackBerry Desktop Software v1.0 have been very exciting and we received lots of great feedback. It was also very exciting to hear how great the product works for so many of you. The v.1.0.1 update is designed to provide enhancements to data and music sync and is just the first in a series of planned updates. We value your feedback and comments very much so please keep them coming!



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TiVo for BlackBerry smartphones available today

By Vikram, posted September 30, 2009 12:01 AM
tivo for BlackBerryEver find yourself in a situation when you're chatting with a few friends at a bar and someone recommends a new show to check out on TV? You make a mental note to either catch the next telecast or schedule it on your DVR. Unfortunately, life gets in the way and that mental note evaporates into thin air, along with what you wanted to see. Situations like this can now have a happy ending thanks to TiVo® for BlackBerry® smartphones.

The TiVo for BlackBerry smartphones app allows users to browse, search and schedule recordings of their favorite TV programs to their TiVo DVR directly from their BlackBerry smartphone. Click the 'continue reading' link to learn more about my hands-on experience with TiVo for BlackBerry smartphones.
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BlackBerry Desktop Software: a Closer Look at the Mac OS Version

By Andrey, posted September 23, 2009 3:30 PM
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Update: BlackBerry® Desktop Software for the Mac OS platform is now available!

BlackBerry® Desktop Software is now compatible with the Mac OS platform, and the upcoming release is just around the corner. We'd like to take this opportunity to share some details about the key features included in v1.0. We know many of you are waiting anxiously for the product to be released, and the wait is almost over! Before I dive into the details, I wanted to thank you all for the great comments and feedback you left on my initial post announcing this upcoming release of BlackBerry Desktop Software. Knowing how anticipated the product is was the best motivation the team could have. Read on for a detailed walk-through of the key product features.
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Meet MyBlackBerry Community Manager Becky Young

By Douglas Soltys, posted September 17, 2009 9:34 AM
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So after much hubbub, MyBlackBerry™ has launched and is feeling the love from the BlackBerry® smartphone community. Now that we've fully jumped into the Internet's social waters, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at how MyBlackBerry got started and where it's going. There's no better person to ask than MyBlackBerry's Community Manager (and my boss), Becky Young.

Who are you and what do you do?
I am part of RIM's social media team, that works on everything from the Inside BlackBerry blogs to the Facebook fan pages, and of course MyBlackBerry.  Our daily lives are full of listening - a lot of listening! And then we try to take what we learn from listening and incorporate that into the building of our social programs. 

For MyBlackBerry I am the project lead, supported by Rodney on the technical side and Rob on the marketing side, and of course quite a few other RIM employees who help us keep the site together (app teams, accessories teams, support services, IT...the list is HUGE!). My main role is to make sure we stay true to what people using social sites expect.  It was quite a shift in thinking from "how do we design a site to tell people about BlackBerry smartphones" to "how do we design a site to help BlackBerry smartphone users talk to other BlackBerry smartphone users."  
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Yahoo! Fantasy Football ’09 available for BlackBerry smartphones

By Douglas Soltys, posted September 8, 2009 9:29 AM
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Those who know me, know I'm a HUGE sports fan. With the NFL season less than a week away from starting, I'm about to go into sports overload - in fact, I just upgraded my home cable package to make sure I catch all the games of my favorite team (Go Bears!) now that they have a legitimate quarterback.

However, while I'm a huge sports fan and have dabbled in fantasy leagues before, I somehow never got into fantasy football (I know, it's weird). When I found out about Yahoo! Fantasy Football, I knew all that was about to change, and I demanded to be the one to reveal the application to my fellow BlackBerry® smartphone sports faithful. 

Click the "Continue Reading" link to learn more about Yahoo! Fantasy Football, now available on BlackBerry App World™.
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Air Canada BlackBerry web signal takes flight!

By Alex K., posted September 4, 2009 12:14 PM
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Here at RIM, I work for the BlackBerry® Platform Product Management team.  We're the product managers for the Java® and web developer tools that allow anyone to develop applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. My fellow product manager, Mario, manages our BlackBerry web signals platform which allows developers to push content updates to BlackBerry smartphones.  

Last week, I was in Ottawa working on BlackBerry App World™ planning, and to make travel easier, I took advantage of Air Canada's latest web signal service which combines web check-in with an Electronic Boarding Pass.

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