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Skype for BlackBerry Verizon was launched a few months ago and had never seen an update since then. But now, here is a leaked version of the Skype, dubbed the Skype (BETA) Version 1.0.5.0. A pic of the app in working has also been seen now and I guess this is still with the beta testers making its way out to the general public in the near future.
The update is said to address some of the issues that the users who are on the current version, are facing. Dropped calls is one of the major issues that is present in the current version. The update is going to only for the Verizon BlackBerry users. It is not going to work on other networks. So dont even worry about giving it a try.
The update is not going to be an over the air (OTA) download. So you will have to have the BlackBerry Desktop Manager installed on your PC to install the update on your phone. If you dont have the BlackBerry Desktop Manager, you can download it from here. You can also download the leaked version of the Skype for BlackBerry from here.
Yesterday was the day a meet was organized in India for the security and telecom agencies of the country and the Research in Motion (RIM) officials to talk about the solutions for the security risks that the encrypted data transaction that BlackBerry phones use. The meeting was to decide whether BlackBerry can give a solution to monitor the encrypted data that was going out of the country from the BlackBerry phones used in the country, to a server that the Canadian company maintains in Canada.
Its been two months since the country's officials first asked Research in Motion for the access to these encrypted data. RIM had stated that the matter is out of its hand and it can not help in anyway. As a result of this, the Indian government gave it time till today to finalize its decision and if RIM gave a NO again, all its services would be banned from tomorrow.
As a result of this, RIM has to obviously find a way to avoid the ban. Now, the company has agreed to give the access to encrypted data and this is to maintained in a local server inside India. So RIM is to now set up a server at India so that the security agencies could easily monitor the traffic.
Nearly 1.1 million people in the country can be relaxed and dont have to change their phones now. This monitoring will be done for two months and will be examined later to see if the monitoring is proper and enough. If not, future steps will be taken accordinly.
Internals is an app that all power users of the BlackBerry devices should have. Even general users of the device can have. This is a perfect tool for monitoring and moderating the resources of the phone. Internals gives complete info about all the resources of the phone like battery, RAM, running tasks, etc. You can also get an idea about the signal strength.
The app shows all this info in different ways. You can get all the info on your screen in a textual way or can have graphs refreshing after a fixed interval to give you the latest info. Each item of the app on the screen will have its own different options and customization settings. So you can individually select how the app should represent each item.
Each meter gives you very detailed info about the respected stuff. If you consider the battery meter for example, you will get the percentage of charge it has right now, the temperature of the battery, the voltage output the battery is giving now and stuffs like that. So you can control the behavior of your phone to optimize its performance.
You can have a task manager show your a list of currently running apps, so that you kill the apps that you dont want but are running in the background eating up the valuable resources of your phone. Beta testers usually this app a lot to get the stats of their apps and optimize its performance.
You can get Internals for your BlackBerry from the App World for $7.99.
This game will be a girls' favorite game. This is all about shopping in the wedding season for as many as 40 weddings. So ready to kick start the challenge? Yes, this is a challenge, not just a game. The game has a nice story base also. You have to over come some competition in the game to win it till the end. You have show your skills in shopping.
The story revolves around you a few more shoppers, who act as your opponents when it comes to shopping. There will be different challenges with them that you have to win to be in the game. The story has around 40 weddings in it. So you are obviously supposed to go to wedding sales and make the purchases. These other competitors of yours will also come. You have to survive the mad rush till the end to get the winning title to yourself.
The game is fun though. It has a blue and pink theme, a perfect girlie theme, with what I guess are barbie dolls, not sure of all that. You can test your shopping skills here to see how you will perform in a real world situation, but dont expect the real world to be so cute and stuff.
Anyway, you can get the Wedding Sale Madness game for your BlackBerry phones from the App World.
Tomorrow, the 31st of August, is the last day that the Indian government has given for Research in Motion to come up with a solution to allow the security and telecom agencies in the country to monitor the data transactions happening in the country via the BlackBerry phones. BlackBerry is asked to attend a meeting today in the country with the country's security officials.
RIM has suffered a major dip in its share value last week in New York. If the company does not do anything about this, it will have to shut down its services in the fastest growing cellular market of the world. This could be a very bad situation for the Canadian Research in Motion.
If it fails to provide a satisfying answer to the big heads of the country today, its internet and mail services will be blocked in the country starting tomorrow.
"Everything is possible. If they say we have a solution and ask for time, then we will see," one unnamed official told reporters late last week.
With about 1.1 million BlackBerry users in the country, the company may not want to lose the market share here. So we can surely expect something positive from the meet today. By evening today, the fate of one of the world's largest phone manufacturers will be known in the world's fastest growing market.
Brooklyn Bridge is one of the finest bridges of the world. In the night, with all the lighting effects, the bridge is just beautiful to look at. This wallpaper brings the bridge close to you on your BlackBerry. So download it today.
ProOnGo is an excellent app for business people. You would probably be using this app if you are a business professional. Now, the app has been updated to include a very good feature, a GPS support. You can now get accurate measurements for your mileage calculations.
The app uses the built in GPS module of your phone to know the starting point and the ending point of your journey. Based on this, the app will calculate the mileage your vehicle is giving. This feature is a great add on for the already best app in the category. With this, you get good efficiency on your mileage expense calculations. This is a great feature for business people who are always on the go.
Another very interesting feature of this app is that now it allows you to use the camera on your BlackBerry phone to keep a track of the receipts and also captures all the info present on the receipt. The app then includes reminders on your phone to remind you of the stuffs so that you dont forget it. There is support for various units of measurements, currencies and more. You can use the app for any of your needs. This app just doesn't loses it.
You can download ProOnGo for your BlackBerry from the App World.
There is a pool of IM clients for BlackBerry phones. One fish in the pool is the new Trillian. This app just came out of the beta stage and is on sale in the App World. This is one of the best deals in the business of smartphone chatting. It helps you to organize and stay in touch with your IM and also with your friends on your social media networks, all on the go.
Some of the features include support for Astra, MSN, Facebook chat, Yahoo, Google, MySpace and a lot of other popular services. The user interface is another plus for the app. It uses the default BlackBerry theme. So you dont feel that you are using any third party app on your phone. Trillian has its client for the Windows PCs and Apple Macs. So you have the option to sync with all of them. So your data is updated everywhere.
The app also supports multiple account management, right from the login screen. And, the best is, you get push notifications. When you are in a chat, you can send pictures and URLs like you are chatting on a PC. You get a variety of emoticons. And you can copy-paste stuffs from one place to another or from one chat to another. Avatars are supported, you can create or use one that you already have. You can take your own pic from your phone's camera and use it as the avatar.
All in all, an awesome chat client for the BlackBerry platform. You can get Trillian for your BlackBerry phone from the App World for $4.99.
A bug fixing upgrade to the existing version of WordPress for BlackBerry is now available. This is the version WordPress V1.4.1. The update also features some new inclusions. The list of fixes or features, as said by the company is as given below:
- Fixed empty title issue for those blogs with “Site Title” field set to empty value.
- Fixed an issue on the comments screen that doesn’t permit editing of comments with weird characters within URL or e-mail field.
- Introduced a better integration with the VideoPress service and the WordPress.com Space-Upgrade option.
- Added support for blog shortcut icon.
- Minor bug fixing.
The app is available in the App World or you can also download it directly from the servers on to your phone over the air (OTA). But this is just a fix to the bugs that were lurking in the previous version. Unless you want to be perfect in your work or are a professional blogger, dont worry about downloading this update. You can download the WordPress for BlackBerry update from the App World from here. You can also get WordPress for BlackBerry update directly over the air from here.
BlackBerry OS 6 is the latest OS from RIM for its BlackBerry phones. Now here is the first screenshot of the next BlackBerry Theme Studio. We dont yet know what this will be called, but right now, we call it BlackBerry 6 Theme Studio. We dont even know when this will be out. Probably a week or a fortnight after the release of the BlackBerry 6 OS.
For all the developers out there, wait for the app to be released to develop themes for the latest BlackBerry OS 6. Till then, feel happy seeing this screenshot.
