WhatsApp Messenger, the alternative messaging application for your friends who have unfortunately left BlackBerry for other platforms such as iPhone and Android just got an update a few days ago.  Here’s what’s new in this update:

• Major performance and stability fixes
• add 8350i support
• optimize messaging protocol

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A few weeks ago we let you know about Bubble Birds for BlackBerry, a game similar to the very popular Snood – and not Angry Birds.  They launched a free version of the game, ad supported of course, so feel free to download it if you don’t mind the ad clutter.

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At Mobile World Congress 2011, Adobe has officially announced Flash 10.2.  As the year has gone by, we have been confirmed for Flash 10.1 to work on the BlackBerry PlayBook, and now Adobe says 10.2 will be supported as well.  In their official statements at the event, they make more mentions on Android tablets supporting it along with some mobile handsets – hoping to see on QNX powered BlackBerry smartphones!  Some cool stuff about 10.2 is that video performance gets improved by decreasing processor and memory usage – which should call for better battery life on the PlayBook, right?  Hit the jump for the full press release from Adobe.

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RIM just announced on Inside BlackBerry and on the Gist blog that they have acquire Gist.  There are no future details written here or anything, and we haven’t obtained the press release yet.  Just a quick notice that Gist joins Research in Motion and that they look forward to the future. Gist is an awesome service which combines your contact list with the web.  It gathers contact info from everywhere and gets it all narrowed down for you to get easy access.  Sounds a bit similar to Xobni, but this is definitely exciting stuff here.  I’m hoping we see better contact management now in the future with BlackBerry, not that I have an issue with it now, but enhancements and add-ons are always great.

Firstly, Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!  To go along with the holiday, the PocketBerry Store features three Deal of the Day specials that all come handy for today.  Here’s the list of apps on sale:

• App: Kama Sutra for the BlackBerry -Everything you want to know about Kama Sutra, History, purpose of Kama Sutra, positions, pictures, videos and more.  Original Price: $4.99.  Sale Price: $1.99
• Game: Sexy Dice – Roll the dice and enjoy the night! Original Price: $2.99. Sale Price: $1.49
• Theme: Following Heart v2.0 – Heartily abstract cute themes for your Blackberry with 3 different styles and features. Suitable for heart lovers. Original Price: $4.99. Sale Price: $2.49.

So there you have it – an application, game, and theme to celebrate the holiday.  The sale prices are for today only, so head over to the PocketBerry Store to take advantage of the special offers.

Our friends over at BBNews.pl snapped a photo showing a sign that says BlackBerry Messenger 6.0 will be presented up next.  So we’re on the edge of our seats here hoping we see a lot of good stuff here as we broke out some leaked out details on BBM 6.0 a few weeks ago which sounded pretty exciting.  Also, we want to know what’s up with video chat on the PlayBook – will there be video chat within BBM?  Stay tuned guys!

Carrier billing is something RIM has been working on for a while and while it’s not available everywhere in the world, they are slowly but surely extended the services everywhere possible.  Today at Mobile World Congress, RIM and Telefonica announce their partnership in working together to bring carrier building to BlackBerry App World.  Hit the jump for the full press release.

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BlackBerry App World has been our portal to third party applications for quite some time now.  Through each update, we have been seeing more and more enhancements.  And as time goes by, we see App World reach out to more customers worldwide.  Today RIM has announced that BlackBerry App World is now in 27 additional markets worldwide, making it reach out to 101 markets.  Some quick stats on App World:

• Over 2 million apps downloaded per day from App World
• Over 20,000 apps available today

You know all the ins and out of App World, but we have the full press release from Research in Motion after the jump.

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Poynt has put out an update for their BlackBerry and Android app adding social network sharing.  Basically the key advantage of having that is that you can go somewhere and share your location or search results with Facebook friends or Twitter followers.  So let’s say you plan out lunch for you and your friends.  You’ll be able to send the restaurant chosen to all them all through Poynt on to social networks including Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading for the full press release from Poynt.

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It’s been a while since we heard anything from BOLT, but they are still sticking around and doing what they do best.  As many don’t use their browser now with the ready to go webkit browser in BlackBerry 6 OS, BOLT still has plenty of advantages so you should definitely check it out.  Here’s the full change log in version 2.5

• Geolocation support : BOLT 2.5′s geolocation feature allows a user with a GPS enabled device to pass latitude and longitude information to location enabled websites through the browser.
• Expanded coverage of video sites, Release 2.5 supports playback of videos on Facebook.
• Upgrade to Webkit 5 in BOLT’s cloud.
• Even greater HTML5 support. BOLT continues to lead the way for support of HTML5 standards amongst mobile browsers. BOLT 2.5 supports HTML5 audio and video streaming while providing the highest compliance with HTML 5 standards compared to all other browsers in the space.
• Revamped user interface. Get access to BOLT’s most frequently used features in lesser clicks with a more streamlined layout, menu structure and help. Widgets are now available through BOLT homepage.
• Download Manager has been upgraded to maintain download history even after the exiting the browser and resume last download after browser re-launch.

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Source: N4BB