Free Game for the Blackberry Storm - Crackberry Smash

Destroy iPhones, Palm Pres and T-Mobile G1s on your BlackBerry Storm by rolling around the CrackBerry.com logo!

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Introducing Opera Fingertouch for Touchscreen Phones

Opera Labs introduces Fingertouch: "a technology designed to make interacting with the Web easier and simpler on touch-based devices".

Features:

*Visual feedback when you hit links and other elements on the page
*Helps users select what they want when they come across lots of links or other selectable elements close together

Check out the demo video below:



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Hack an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, or Windows Mobile Phone ,Win $10,000 !

Hackers, start planning your exploits.

TippingPoint's DVLabs on Thursday announced the rules for its third annual Pwn2Own contest, to be held at the CanSecWest Security Conference, which runs from March 16 through 20 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The focus this year is on two technologies: Web browsers and mobile devices.

The first hacker to crack a mobile device -- an Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian, or Windows Mobile phone -- without accessing it physically will win $10,000 and will get to keep the device, with a paid one-year contract. Subsequent successful mobile device hacks also pay $10,000 but do not include a device or contract.

Hackers also have the option of trying to execute a successful exploit against a Web browser. Potential targets include Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 on a Sony Vaio running Windows 7 or Firefox and Safari installed on a MacBook running Mac OS X. Opera is not included, however, an omission criticized in several blog comments. Browser bugs are worth $5,000 a piece.

Research published by Kaspersky Lab in 2006 suggests that information about a Windows bug sold for $4,000 in Russia.

"Winning entries against the browsers include exploits which require no user interaction outside of a single click on a malicious link," explains Terri Forslof, TippingPoint's manager of security response, in a blog post. "Winning scenarios against the mobile devices include attacks that can be exploited via e-mail, SMS text, Web site browsing, and other general actions a normal user would take while using the device."

Contest participants can try to attack both mobile devices and Web browsers, but cannot win both prizes using only a single exploit.

Last year at CanSecWest, a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators hacked a MacBook Air in two minutes using a previously unknown vulnerability in Apple's Safari 3.1 Web browser. They took the MacBook Air home as the prize, along with $10,000 in cash.

TippingPoint's goal is to use the prize money to purchase whatever zero-day exploits are revealed and to disclose them to the affected companies in a responsible manner.

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BlackBerry Bolds in Japan Overheats While Charging, Sales Halted

NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, said on Friday it has halted sales of Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold because the phone can overheat while the battery is being recharged.

DoCoMo said it has sold about 4,000 high-end Bold phones, and about 30 users have complained the phone's keyboard area had heated up. The company said it has received no reports of users getting burned or of phones catching on fire.

"This issue appears to be specifically limited to the BlackBerry Bold devices sold in Japan since last week and sales of BlackBerry Bold devices in other countries are unaffected by this matter," RIM said in a statement.

RIM said it had ruled out a battery problem, but said the root cause is still being investigated.

NTT DoCoMo began selling the product in Japan last week and the companies hope to renew sales in Japan soon, RIM said.

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Blackberry Bullet Takes a Shot at Apple's iPhone

President Obama's Super-Secret $3,300 Blackberry!

Barack Obama Endorsement for Blackberry Worth $50 Million?

From a New York Times article:

This week, Michael Phelps signed a deal worth more than $1 million to advertise Mazda in China. Jerry Seinfeld earned a reported $10 million to appear in Microsoft’s recent television campaign.

But the person who may be the biggest celebrity pitchman in the world is not earning a penny for his work.

President-elect Barack Obama has repeatedly said how much his BlackBerry means to him and how he is dreading the prospect of being forced to give it up, because of legal and security concerns, once he takes office.

“I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday in an interview with CNBC and The New York Times. “They’re going to pry it out of my hands.”

What could the “BlackBerry president” charge for his plugs of the device if he were not a public servant? More than $25 million, marketing experts say, and maybe as much as $50 million.

“This would be almost the biggest endorsement deal in the history of endorsements,” said Doug Shabelman, the president of Burns Entertainment, which arranges deals between celebrities and companies. “He’s consistently seen using it and consistently in the news arguing — and arguing with issues of national security and global welfare — how he absolutely needs this to function on a daily basis.”

Mr. Obama is an ideal marketing representative, other agents say — popular, constantly in the news and explicit about his attachment to the product.

“You always want the celebrity to be a good fit with your brand, and is anybody considered a better communicator right now than Barack Obama, or a better networker?” said Fran Kelly, the chief executive of the advertising agency Arnold Worldwide, who estimated that an endorsement by Mr. Obama would be worth $25 million. “It couldn’t have a better spokesperson.”

Mr. Shabelman put the value even higher, at $50 million or more, because the endorsement is worldwide.

“The worth to a company to have the president always talking about a BlackBerry and how it absolutely is a necessity to keep in touch with reality?” he said. “Think about how far the company has come if they’re able to say, ‘The president has to have this to keep in touch.’ ”

The maker of the BlackBerry, Research in Motion, recently introduced advertising campaigns and products like the touch-screen Storm that are meant to position BlackBerry as not just a business device but a consumer product like the iPhone. The company, which declined to comment on Mr. Obama’s enthusiasm for its product, also struck a sponsorship deal with John Mayer, a popular guitarist but hardly the leader of the free world.

“The most powerful man in the country is saying, at this moment, basically, I can’t live without mine,” Lori Sale, the head of artist marketing at the agency Paradigm, which pairs actors like Adrien Brody and Katherine Heigl with advertisers. “It represents their now complete and final crossover to a device that people adore.”

Ms. Sale said that Mr. Obama had essentially participated in what is called a satellite media tour for BlackBerry by discussing the product with reporters. Just a single day of a media tour, “with the most A-list of A-list of A-list, would probably be 10 to 15 million dollars,” she said.

That he is not paid to promote BlackBerry is even better for R.I.M. “What makes it even more valuable than that is how authentic it is,” she said.

Mr. Kelly said the endorsement went both ways: while Mr. Obama was doing a lot for BlackBerry, BlackBerry had helped Mr. Obama’s image by making his message seem more relevant.

“The BlackBerry anecdotes are a huge part of Obama’s brand reputation,” he said. “It positions him as one of us: he’s got friends and family and people to communicate with us, just like all of us. And it positions him as a next-generation politician.”

Inevitably, perhaps, marketing executives dream about creating an ad featuring the president-elect, something Gene Liebel, a partner in the Brooklyn agency Huge, said would be a “fantasy assignment.”

Asked what tagline he might use for the campaign, Mr. Liebel repeated one his employees had thought up: “If Blagojevich can pick my replacement, I can pick my device.”

R. Vann Graves, the chief creative officer of the UniWorld Group, suggested a campaign showing Mr. Obama in the Oval Office. “In the foreground, you have the desk, but instead of having the proverbial red phone, you have a red BlackBerry,” Mr. Graves said, with the tagline “Shot Caller.”

Matt Reinhard, the executive creative director of DDB Los Angeles, suggested Apple try to steal Mr. Obama away from BlackBerry as a spokesman for the iPhone.

The message could be, “It’s time for change,” Mr. Reinhard said.

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Another Blackberry Storm Screen Scratch Test

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BlackBerry Storm Screen - Knife, Keys Scratch Resistance Test

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Nokia N97 vs Nokia N96 vs Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 vs T-Mobile G1 vs Blackberry Storm - Specs Fight

Size and weight

N97: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm, weighs 150g

N96: 103 x 55 x 18 mm, weighs 125g

Xperia X1: 110.5 x 52.6 x 17.0 mm, weighs 158g

G1: 117.7 x 55.7 x 17.1 mm, weighs 158g

Storm: 112.5mm x 62.2 mm x 13.95 mm, weighs 155g


Interface

N97: Touchscreen (not multitouch) and full QWERTY keypad

N96: Numerical keys and media buttons

Xperia X1: Touchscreen (not multitouch) and full QWERTY keypad

G1: Touchscreen (not multitouch, but it’s possible) and full QWERTY keypad

Storm: Multitouch touchscreen with haptic feedback



Camera

N97: 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss with dual LED flash, plus DVD quality video recording

N96: 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss with dual LED flash

Xperia X1: 3.2 megepixel with photo light

G1: 3.2 megapixel, no flash or light

Storm: 3.2 megapixel with LED flash


Connectivity

N97: 3G HSDPA, GPS (with digital compass), WiFi, A2DP Bluetooth

N96: 3G HSDPA, GPS, WiFi, A2DP Bluetooth with AVRCP, DVB-H (for all the good it is)

Xperia X1: 3G HSDPA, GPS, WiFi, A2DP Bluetooth

G1: 3G HSDPA, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth,

Storm: 3G HSDPA, GPS, A2DP Bluetooth with AVRCP



Cut and paste

N97: Yes!

N96: No

Xperia X1: Yes!

G1: Yes!

Storm: Yes!



Storage

N97: 32GB, expandable MicroSD up to 16GB

N96: 16GB, expandable MicroSD up to 16GB

Xperia X1: 400MB, expandable via MicroSD

G1: 256MB, expandable via MicroSD

Storm: 128MB, expandable MicroSD up to 16GB



Battery

N97: 320 mins talktime, 400 hours standby

N96: 220 mins talktime, 220 hours standby

Xperia X1: 360 mins talktime, 640 hours standby

G1: 300 min talktime, 130 hours standby

Storm: 330 mins talktime, 180 hours standby



Display

N97: 3.5” TFT with up to 16 million colours, 640 x 360 pixels (16:9 widescreen format)

N96: 2.8” TFT with up to 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels

Xperia X1: 3.0” 65k colour TFT, 800 x 480 pixels

G1: 3.2” 65k colour, 480 x 320 pixels

Storm: 3.25” 65k colour, 360 x 480


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Mumbai, India Terrorists High Tech Assault: Gunmen Use Blackberrys

As the Mumbai massacre finally came to an end this week, a surprising detail has come to light - among the possessions of one of the terrorists, which included: a Mauritian national's identity card, Chinese-made grenades, seven ammunition magazines, 400 spare rounds of ammunition, seven credit cards from different banks, dry rations and thousands of dollars in cash, was a Blackberry phone.

The Blackberrys were apparently used to monitor police responses, troop movements and international reaction, mostly on British sites, after the cable tv feed to the hotels were cut off.

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BlackBerry Storm vs iPhone 3G, Part 2 - Messaging & Keyboard

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BlackBerry Storm vs iPhone 3G, Part 1 - Form Factor & Phone

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F1 McLaren Mercedes Driver Lewis Hamilton on the BlackBerry Storm

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First Ever Blackberry Touchscreen Phone Live Picture

The folks over at Boygeniusreport have just posted a live picture of the upcoming Blackberry thunder, the first touchscreen phone (with only 4 physical keys, no keyboard) to come out of the RIM. It will be available with Verizon and Vodafone.

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BlackBerry Bold vs iPhone Hands-on Live Video Review

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source: phonemag

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First Blackberry Flip Phone Leaked Picture

Looks like the folks up in Waterloo have been busy finding new designs lately. This is what they have come up with. It is a BlackBerry flip. I never thought I would see the day. This new device, called the Kickstart, is the first BlackBerry flip phone, ever. For a first attempt, this is not looking to shabby either. The device could be released as early as the end of the year.

Well, lets see what we can learn from this image. First, it is very clearly a BlackBerry, as in not too much departure from BlackBerry designs we know today. We see the familiar and distinct RIM SureType keyboard. A good choice for a flip, where space is limited. Also, we see a trackball. A trackball makes even more sense on a flip, as it will be protected from pockets and such. From the screen, we can tell it is not running any special user interface. Definitely not the one we saw on the BlackBerry 9000 at least.

Interestingly, no model number was outed with it. It is not clear what series this BlackBerry belongs to. While the interface clues that it could be part of the 8000 series, there is no reason to believe that just because the interface is familiar it is not part of the 9000 series. While there is no evidence this is the BlackBerry 9100, there a few reasons it could be. The BlackBerry 7100 and 8100 series, were compact, SureType sporting BlackBerries. Clearly, this is a compact, SureType sporting BlackBerry. There have been no SureType BlackBerries that were not part of a *100 series. While RIM could introduce it as a new member to the 8100 series, it seems unlikely they would put this device in a candy bar family of phones.

source: phonemag

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Diamond Encrusted, Gold/Platinum Blackberry Pearl

Bling King Alexander Amosu has already covered our much-loved mobile phones and other accessories in diamonds, including the limited edition diamond Nokia N95 8GB, luxury MOTOPURE H12 Bluetooth headset, diamond-encrusted Apple iPhone, and the RAZR2 V8 Luxury Diamond Edition phone.

This time, the world’s most prestigious customization company has added a glittering new range of diamond encrusted Blackberry Pearls to their range of luxurious diamond encrusted mobile phones. With three different models on offer, the range will appeal to even the most discerning customer.

The Model 1 (Pearl Gold Edition) comes in your choice of solid white gold, yellow gold or platinum. The Model 2 (Pearlific) is made from solid gold with intricate diamond pattern designs. The Model 3 (Pearl Diamond) is modeled in solid gold and hand cut diamonds. The Blackberry Pearl Limited Diamond Edition has the sides and bottom adorned with 18k Solid White Gold. Approximately 900 brilliant cut diamonds of 12ct have been used to beautify the phone.

The Amosu Blackberry collection is custom made and handcrafted using exceptional materials and the finest craftsmanship. Each piece takes four weeks to complete.

All diamonds used on the phones are fair-trade and also recyclable, as they can be removed from one handset and be recast onto another, meaning your investment continues to shine. The Gold Edition sets you back £12,000 while the Pearl Limited Diamond Edition sells for a whopping £45,000.

source: bornrich

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24K Gold Blackberry

What do you get the person who has everything? Well how about a limited edition 24K gold Blackberry? Nothing says I love you, like the flash of gold, and diamonds can even be included if you prefer. The finish is handcrafted from rose Gold and looks extremely blingy. There is no price as yet for this baby, but if you'd even consider it I'm guessing that's not an issue. I don't think I'd be that impressed were I presented with this vulgar monstrosity, but I'd be pretty happy eBaying it later.

Available with Goldstriker

source: shinyshiny

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