Yelp live in BlackBerry App World
Yelp is no longer a newcomer to BlackBerry smartphones (not since last August, anyway,) but the BlackBerry app has only been available outside RIM’s marketplace, BlackBerry App World. Starting on Wednesday, Yelp for BlackBerry (review) will also have a presence in the BlackBerry App World, both in the downloadable storefront on the phone and in [...]
eBay opens auction app for BlackBerry
RIM’s BlackBerry App World is slowly but surely gaining ground as a storefront for distributing BlackBerry applications. eBay is the latest major company to forge a presence in the storefront, in the form of an eBay app for BlackBerry auctioneers in the U.S. and Canada. The official eBay for BlackBerry application, which was co-developed by [...]
Review redux: Flixster movie app for BlackBerry
“Come on, Flixster. We know you can do better than that.” Those are the words I wrote on Friday to sum up a review of Flixster’s movie app for BlackBerry phones. The trouble is, I goofed. I was apparently a day early, reviewing the previous Flixster for BlackBerry, which did deserve the critiques I dished [...]
Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android
The Twitter service with the cutesy raccoon mascot is making a new home on BlackBerry and Google Android phones. The free Seesmic, like its proliferate rivals, lets you read, manage, and compose Twitter messages much more flexibly than you can do from Twitter’s Web site. We crash-tested both mobile versions as soon as we heard [...]
Smartphone users, keep complaining
Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a Tuesday session of the BlackBerry Developer Conference here in San Francisco aimed at developers. But it’s a dictum that applies to all smartphone owners. In the symbiotic relationship between the application developer and the user, a well-placed critique [...]