BBM Voice Out Now On RIM OS 7

English: BlackBerry Bold 9000 connected to T-Mobile USA and a DD-WRT Wi-Fi access point. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While the BlackBerry loyalist community eagerly awaits the release in late January of new RIM BlackBerries and the new OS 10, RIM has been updating to OS 7 with a key feature that those who still talk will … Read more

Are BlackBerry Users Skype Orphans, Is Skype A Stepchild to Apple?

Over at About.com Nadeem, who covers VoIP ponders the point that with Microsoft buying Skype we may see a Blackberry client from Skype. Well given the tight-fisted way RIM doles out access to the stack that lets you access WiFi, and the fact that some patents are in place around that, not to mention the … Read more

Tungle Bought By RIM

Image via CrunchBase Tungle, the service that makes it easy to scheudule appointments has been bought by RIM.  Business Insider and Tech Crunch have details. For founder Marc Gingras, this is is second exit, with the first being NIMCAT that was purchased by Mitel some years back in the early days of P2P telephony. With … Read more