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Native BlackBerry Twitter App In Beta, LinkedIn App MIA

The rumored Twitter Blackberry app begins to see the light of day, while the LinkedIn BlackBerry app continues to languish. ’nuff said. Want to read more of my complaints about LinkedIn bungling the launch of their BlackBerry App? Still Waiting For Promised Social Media BlackBerry Applications In 2009 LinkedIn For BlackBerry Delayed to 2010 LinkedIn, [...]

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New Seesmic For BlackBerry, No Ping Integration

When Seesmic and Ping.fm merged last month they promised a new version of the application with Ping.fm features included.  Yesterday I checked in on how they were doing and lo and behold  a new version of Seesmic was released last month.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that unfortunately it does not [...]

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LinkedIn, Where’s Your BlackBerry App?

Last December I wrote about 3 BlackBerry social network applications that were expected by the end of 2009. They were Foursquare, Twitter and LinkedIn. This week the well done and extremely useful Foursquare BlackBerry app was released as a public beta and also a screen shot was released of the native Twitter app that has [...]

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Review: Foursquare For BlackBerry

Foursquare just released their application for the BlackBerry as a public beta, giving the largest number of smartphone owners access to the location based social network that iPhone and Android users have had for awhile. Foursquare members who have been using the mobile site on the BlackBerry will be very, very happy with the new [...]

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Google Mobile Searches BlackBerry Contacts And Messages

The Google Mobile app for BlackBerry rolled out a new trick earlier this week and is now searching your contacts and messages as well as the web. While this immediately seemed like a nice addition to the functionality as I’ve been using it the new functionality seems more like a logical addition, but not one [...]

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Seesmic + Ping.fm = Total Social Network Access Via BlackBerry?

While writing up a review of the spectacular new ÜberTwitter release, word came that Seesmic had acquired Ping.fm.  If you don’t know Seesmic produces a range of Twitter clients for Windows, BlackBerry, Android, etc. and Ping.fm is a service for updating multiple social networks singularly or simultaneously via email, IM and text messaging. Put these [...]

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ÜberTwitter Beta 6 Released

ÜberTwitter has kicked off the new year right with a new beta release that adds some great additions to what is already my favorite Twitter application for the BlackBerry.  You can get a complete list of the updates and bug fixes in the release on their website, but the most important, and useful, upgrades are [...]

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LinkedIn For BlackBerry Delayed to 2010

In yesterday’s late Christmas present of LinkedIn 3.0 for the iPhone LinkedIn dropped the following lump of coal for BlackBerry users in the next to last paragraph of the announcement on their blog. This application represents just the beginning of our mobile efforts in 2010. We’re just putting the finishing touches on our first native [...]

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Review: Gmail For BlackBerry

Gmail is hands down the most useful 3rd party BlackBerry application that I use.  Others may have a better user experience, there may be ones that look better, some are certainly more fun or cool.  But Gmail is by far the application that I use the most and has the set of features that I [...]

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The Joy of BlackBerry App Updates

In reviewing the applications on my BlackBerry I’ve tried to be careful about always reviewing the most recent version of the application that I can run on my 8310.  I want to write about the latest and greatest features and, more importantly, I don’t want to look like an idiot and criticize something that has [...]

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