A Samsung spokesman has said that the company is not planning to buy Research In Motion, even if an article on Boy Genius Report claimed differently on Wednesday. The interesting part is that RIM shares went up following the report, but their price dropped afterwards. RIM shares went up 10 percent following the report, but [...]
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Sync Grocery Lists Between iPhone, Android and BlackBerry Smartphones
HeadCode’s app OurGroceries is a simple system that will sync your grocery list between Blackberry, iOS and Android devices. With this program you can easily share a list with anyone you choose. You need only specify an email address to share across devices. OurGroceries refers to this as the Master email address. It’s easy. Search [...]
Uninstall Applications from Your BlackBerry Smartphone
There are thousands of apps available for our smartphones and other mobile devices. You probably have too many in fact. Here’s how to clean up your BlackBerry by uninstalling apps you no longer use. Expand main menu and open Options. Select Device from options menu. Scroll down and open Application Management. Here you’ll see the [...]
Blackberry: How to Take Screenshots On Your Phone
To take screenshots on your BlackBerry Phone without hitting a crazy key combination, use the CaptureIt app. Here’s how to set it up. First, go to www.captureitota.com, on your phone, scroll down and click on the Download button. Click on the Download button. If it asks you whether you trust the application, select Yes. Now, [...]
Blackberry Music, Gmail iOS Troubles: Wednesday Ranting Roundup
Nov. 2, 2011– Today my ranting roundup of today’s tech news starts with a question. If RIM BlackBerry launches a new music service and nobody listens, did it really launch at all? It’s a trick question, actually. It isn’t possible to listen to the new BBM music service over the deafening sound of RIM’s stock [...]
Week of the Blackberry Outage – Tech Groove Episode 2
Join host Mat Lee as he recaps the week with the groovy team. Featuring Steve Krause (MrGroove), Ron White, Austin Krause, and Seth Heringer. In this episode we’ll focus heavily on the RIM outage and discussion on Facebook and other networks.
RIM Outage: Day Three Reaches the US
Millions of Americans woke up to no RIM Blackberry service today. In its third day straight of outages, a core switch failure in Southeast England has led to a global messaging and email backlog on RIM servers running Blackberry causing user messaging, email and all data services to ground to a halt. The outage began [...]
Tungle.me Acquired by Research in Motion–What Does the Future Hold?
At groovyPost, we always enjoy seeing our old friends in the news. So, this morning when we saw that the social media feeds were all tweeting over the announcement that Tungle.me had been acquired by Research in Motion—the Canadian outfit responsible for BlackBerry—we thought: “Good for them.” In our Tungle.me review posted last November, we [...]
PSA: Do Not Use Social GPS App Waze to Get Free Turn-by-Turn Directions on Your Smartphone
Although the venture capital funders are throwing their support—$37+ million of it—behind the social GPS app Waze, my conscience will not allow me to recommend this free turn-by-turn driving directions app to groovyPost readers. It’s not that I don’t want you to be able to get free user-driven maps, traffic reports and turn-by-turn voice prompts [...]
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My Thoughts On RIM After BlackBerry World 2012
Since the release of the iPhone in 2007, RIM has seen a steady decline of its BlackBerry market share. After attending the recent BlackBerry World 2012 conference, here’s my thoughts on the future success of BlackBerry against its competitors.