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RIM BlackBerry ‘T’ (Talladega?) slider launching next month?

Hang with us for a sec as we conjure up a speculative device from a sordid collection of rumors. By now we've all seen the leaked BlackBerry slider right? How about the "Mr. T" phone, heard of that
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Tumblr Gets a BlackBerry App

Until recently, blogging clients for the BlackBerry have been pretty limited. But WordPress for BlackBerry was released last month, and today Tumblr released its official BlackBerry app , which lets you post photos, videos, audio, links and text directly from the BlackBerry to your microblog. Mobelux , the guys behind the stellar Tumblr iPhone app are also the masterminds behind Tumblr BlackBerry. That means that the same attractive interface and robust feature support from the iPhone app is now available to CrackBerry addicts alike.
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Now All BlackBerry Apps Can Have Push Notifications

Today, RIM is opening up the BlackBerry Push Service to all BlackBerry developers. Push notifications let applications notify users of an alert or new message in real-time. This feature has been available to some developers since October of 2008, but today, everyone can get in on the action. This can be especially useful for breaking news, sports scores or for social networking apps like Twitter and Facebook
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Xobni Mobile Comes to BlackBerry

Xobni (that’s inbox spelled backwards), a company that makes an e-mail management plugin for Microsoft Outlook, is officially releasing Xobni Mobile for the BlackBerry platform today, bringing the power of Xobni to your mobile device. Xobni is a killer tool for anyone who deals with tons of e-mail, because it makes finding messages and attachments, getting widespread contact information about a person and even searching through multiple PST databases easy. Plus, it integrates with social media tools like Facebook and Twitter . Think of Xobni as kind of a cross between something like what Apple’s Spotlight search, Google’s contact tools and a synchronized address book like Plaxo. Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry is designed to make it possible to access all of your most important contact info — irrespective of whether or not a person is in your BlackBerry Address Book — directly from your phone
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Lego-borne BlackBerry Tour probably still lacks WiFi

How do you know you've reached status as an internationally-recognized icon? When someone decides to make a Lego representation of you, that's when -- so our hats go off to you, BlackBerry Tour , for this distinguished accomplishment. Well-traveled Lego artist Nathan Sawaya was recently tapped to turn RIM's global CDMA traveler into a life-sized monolith of plastic bricks, though with an unusual twist: his unnamed patron wanted a working video display, too, which required some "trial and error" to integrate.
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Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity

Today at SXSWi, keynote speaker Danah Boyd took the stage to talk about privacy and publicity, and how they intertwine online. Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and has studied this space extensively for years. It was a compelling talk that challenged the notion that personal information is on a binary spectrum of public or private. To help underscore her points, she recalled and discussed a number of major privacy blunders from Facebook and Google. You can find my notes from the presentation below.
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Android’s American market share soars, WinMo pays the price

Mobile manufacturer and platform market share stats for the US are in for the month of January thanks to comScore, and as usual, they tell a fascinating (and somewhat unpredictable) story of what's actually going on at the cash registers. Motorola -- which has long since fallen off its high horse on the global stage -- still maintains a commanding presence in the American market by representing some 22.9 percent of all subscribers, though that's down 1.2 percent from October 2009; that's particularly interesting in light of the Droid's success, and a possible sign that smartphones still aren't on the cusp of dominating the phone market overall. Samsung recently touted the fact that it had held onto the States' overall market share crown, though Sammy was undoubtedly referring to sales, not subscribers -- in other words, there are still a ton of legacy RAZRs out there inflating Moto's stats. Turning our attention to smartphone platforms, BlackBerry OS, iPhone, and Android all saw gains, while Windows Mobile and Palm both saw significant downturns.
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Caption Contest: 3D is a mind blow, everyone can agree on that

What do b-boys, random celebrities like Mark Sanchez, Andy Samberg and Hillary Duff, and the Black Eyed Peas have to do with 3DTV ? We're not sure either, but that didn't stop Samsung from mixing them up during its "worldwide launch event" yesterday in NYC. Check the video (embedded after the break) for the above revelation about 3D from the JIMP troubador himself, but what was going through the heads of our friend Jimmy C and the BEP when this picture was taken?
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Barnes & Noble to Launch E-Reader App for iPad

Continuing with a very source agnostic digital book strategy, Barnes & Noble has announced it will soon be offering an e-reader app for the Apple iPad . The app will be designed specifically for the iPad’s tablet form factor, and will join B&N’s existing e-reader app family already available for Mac, PC, iPhone , iPod touch, and BlackBerry. In other words, although the company is selling its own Nook e-reader device , it doesn’t want to lock potential book customers into a single platform or device. The company says that the goal is “providing consumers any book, anytime, anywhere.” Like the other existing apps, the iPad app will give users access to the Barnes & Noble e-bookstore with more than one million e-books, magazines and newspapers, plus access of course to its existing digital library.
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