Posts Tagged ‘Messenger’

Saudi Arabia Regulators Request Access to BlackBerry Messenger

March 8th, 2010 BBerryNews

RIM have issued a statement recently to Arab News saying that they are investigating reports in the local press that Saudi regulators have asked for access to BlackBerry Messenger for security concerns. Reports last week said the Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has asked RIM to allow the telecommunications regulator access to monitor messages sent by BlackBerry Messenger. It will be interesting to see how RIM responds to this as they move towards doing business in China. If a precedence is set, allowing government organizations access to BlackBerry email and services, companies and individuals alike will be concerned.

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BlackBerry Users Suffer Worldwide BIS Outage

November 18th, 2009 BBerryNews

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There were numerous reports yesterday from BlackBerry users around the world that they weren’t able to send and receive emails, PINs, or use BlackBerry Messenger.  It would appear that there was a massive worldwide BlackBerry Internet Service outage yesterday affecting, pretty much, everyone.

As many outages as RIM has had you would think that they would be better at handling them then they are.  Notifiy your customer base.  Let BlackBerry users know that there is something going wrong and that you are working to correct the problem.  You have an official BlackBerry blog for crying out loud.

There is no doubt that just about every BlackBerry blog out there is going to have something about your BIS outage posted today.  It makes no sense that your own blog says nothing.  The BIS outage itself makes you look bad.  Being so closed lipped about it makes you look inept.

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BlackBerry OS leaks: Storm OS 4.7.0.164, Bold and 8900 OS 5.0.0.130

July 27th, 2009 BBerryNews

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This week is off to a great start with some OS leaks for your BlackBerry. The move coveted of the 2 leaks is for Bold and Curve 8900 users: OS 5.0.0.13. Don’t get too excited though, like all the OS 5.0 leaks we’ve seen, the build does not come with the latest BlackBerry Messenger, and it will make App World buggy.

BlackBerry Storm 9500 users will appreciate the OS 4.7.0.164 update as it helps make the Storm experience a little smoother. While the Storm started off on a bad foot, RIM has done a great job of releasing OS updates to improve the experience. So if you’re frustrated with your device, at the very least you should be getting official updates the moment they’re available.

Personally, I don’t recommend downloading these OS leaks, but I’m posting for the die-hards who absolutely must try them out. Make sure to back everything up!

Download OS 4.7.0.164 for the BlackBerry Storm 9500.
Download OS 5.0.0.130 for the BlackBerry Bold
Download OS 5.0.0.130 for the BlackBerry Curve 8900

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Have You Installed BlackBerry Messenger 5?

July 21st, 2009 BBerryNews

BlackBerry Messenger 5 (Leaked)

As you may already know, BlackBerry Messenger 5 was leaked the other day and has been getting a lot of good reviews even though it is not officially available yet.  My initial plan was not to install it and just wait for it to be actually be released, which we hear could be any day now.  I say that was my initial plan because, after being asked about 500 bagillion times what I thought about it, I decided to go a head and install BBM 5 so that I could give it the once over.  I’ve got to say that I am pretty impressed.

I want to reiterate that BlackBerry Messenger 5 has not been officially released so you download at your own risk if you decided to install it.  If however, you are the adventurous type, you can find a bunch of OTA links after the jump…

MIRROR: 83XX/81XX/88XX
MIRROR: 83XX/81XX
MIRROR: 83XX/81XX/88XX
MIRROR: 83XX/81XX/88XX
MIRROR: 83XX/81XX/88XX

OTA for 4.6
MIRROR: OS 4.6
MIRROR: OS 4.6
MIRROR: OS 4.6
MIRROR: OS 4.6
MIRROR: OS 4.6

OTA for 4.6.1
MIRROR: OS 4.6.1
MIRROR: OS 4.6.1
MIRROR: OS 4.6.1
MIRROR: OS 4.6.1
MIRROR: OS 4.6.1

OTA for 4.7
MIRROR: 95XX
MIRROR: 95XX
MIRROR: 95XX
MIRROR: 95XX
MIRROR: 95XX

OTA for 4.7.1
MIRROR: Tour
MIRROR: Tour
MIRROR: Tour
MIRROR: Tour
MIRROR: Tour

THE 4.7.1 OTA WILL WORK ON 8900/9000 OS 5.0

Links compiled via Omie Tech.


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