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  Free BlackBerry Apps: Your Smartphone's 10 New Best Friends

• BlackBerry apps can now be charged on Telstra bills

  By Spandas Lui | 14 November, 2011 12:34

  New payment option available to Telstra post-paid customers.

• REVIEW: BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone stands up

  By Ross Catanzariti | 09 September, 2011 09:36

  RIM's latest BlackBerry Bold 9900 heralds a new era for the famous BlackBerry: it is the first Bold to combine a touchscreen and a physical keyboard in a standard candy bar design. The Bold 9900 has a fantastic industrial design that feels superbly constructed, its keyboard is the best we’ve ever used on a smartphone, and its screen is vivid and bright. However, in the age of the iPhone, Android and even Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the Bold still offers little incentive to switch from rival platforms.

• RIM: 1bn app downloads

  By Bob Brown | 27 July, 2011 14:13

  Research in Motion says its 2-year-old BlackBerry App World has crossed the 1 billion app download mark and that a beta version of the app store upgrade is on the way.

• RIM: 1 billion app downloads down, 14 billion to go to catch Apple

  By Bob Brown | 13 July, 2011 06:39

  Research in Motion says  its two-year-old BlackBerry App World has crossed the 1 billion app download mark and that a beta version of the app store upgrade is on the way.

• BlackBerry launches six apps to boost productivity

  By Hafizah Osman | 04 April, 2011 17:20

  Struggling with a heavy workload? And school holidays are on the horizon. Nasty. Time for a few apps.

• Free BlackBerry Apps: Your Smartphone's 10 New Best Friends

  By Al Sacco | 08 February, 2010 12:28

  True BlackBerry lovers, or "CrackBerry" addicts, if you will, can never have too many BlackBerry apps

• Google Voice rejected on iPhone; get BlackBerry app now

  By Zack Stern | 29 July, 2009 07:08

  Apple may have rejected the Google Voice app from the App Store, but BlackBerry owners can tap into this call-management center right now, getting better organised with free features.

• BlackBerry App World Offers Software Update Notifications

  By Al Sacco | 07 August, 2009 04:47

  Last week, Research In Motion released an update to its BlackBerry App World mobile software store, v1.1. With the new App World release, RIM announced a variety of details about the app store's new features and enhancements. But one valuable tidbit seems to have been overlooked: BlackBerry App World v1.1 sends users notifications via BlackBerry message, App World itself and a home screen icon whenever updated version of applications obtained through App World become available.

• BlackBerry App World: 9 Must-Do Fixes

  By Al Sacco | 02 July, 2009 07:18

  2009 is the Year of the Mobile App Store. Apple started the movement with the launch of its hugely successful iTunes App Store for the iPhone in 2008, then all the handset heavies followed suit. Today, Nokia operates the Ovi Store; Microsoft's got the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile; Google runs Android Marketplace; and Research In Motion (RIM) runs BlackBerry App World.

• BlackBerry app developers must make key choices

  By Paul Krill | 16 April, 2009 23:44

  For nearly a year, Apple's App Store for the iPhone has stood out as the sole example of a smartphone platform that's more than a fancy way to take phone calls and look at headlines. It showed the promise of mobile devices as real computing platforms that could run some of the applications we run on our PCs, as well as a new class of mobile-savvy, location-aware programs that would redefine the mobile experience. And it provides a lot of entertainment, from fart-noise generators to mood lighting.