POYNT AND PARTNER TIMES INTERNET LIMITED ANNOUNCE TIMESPOYNT APP IN INDIA IS NOW LIVE
Leading Indian Media Conglomerate to Market App to Captive Audience Viewing Over One Billion Page Views Monthly
New Delhi, India and Calgary, Canada—October 17, 2011—Poynt Corporation (“Poynt Corp.” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: PYN), a leading provider of mobile local search services, and partner, Times Internet Limited (“TIL”), the internet and mobile venture of India’s largest media house – the Times Group, today announced the launch of their mobile local search application, timesPoynt (“timesPoynt” or the “App”) in India. The new App, developed by Poynt Corp. in partnership with TIL, will provide users in India access to the most locally relevant, GPS-enabled service that gives users the power of multiple applications in one intuitive mobile application.

 

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I’m sure you’ve noticed that AOL Instant Messenger is vacant on newer OS 7 devices.  Currently we have WIndows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and Google Talk.  According to a knowledge base article from BlackBerry, AOL Instant Messenger is set to be no longer available from October 28th and on.  However, AOL has released their own BlackBerry application for AIM and is available free in BlackBerry App World.  It lets you talk to your AIM friends and Facebook Chat friends as well.

Over the last several weeks, we saw a promotional limited time sale for BlackBerry PlayBook tablets including the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB starting at $299.99.  The prices are back to their normal $499.99 starting price again.  According to an internal document over at Telus, the 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook is set to be discontinued on November 8th. There’s no presence of the 32GB and 64GB models now and we do know that RIM has plans on releasing an LTE model in the second half of 2011.  This is a Telus internal document, so it’s uncertain if this is indeed a discontinuation of the device, or just a note that the carrier won’t be providing that model any longer.  What are your thoughts?

Source: MobileSyrup

After the big update Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook received a couple of weeks ago, a new version has launched (v1.5.5).  There’s no change log for it this time around so we assume there’s some under the hood work and bug fixes.  The update is available in BlackBerry App World.

Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook >>

Last week users in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) faced BlackBerry Internet Service outages.  The outage went out for a few days, and even hit the US and Canada for about a day as well.  According to police in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai traffic accidents dropped by 20% and 40% in Abu Dhabi during the BlackBerry outage week.

Texting/BBMing while driving is a huge issue for many as some can’t help but give in to the addiction.  There’s great apps to help eliminate looking at your BlackBerry and typing away such as DriveSafely.

Source: BGR

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Note taking a is a very popular task on smartphones.  As far as BlackBerry apps go, we have a bunch of great apps for jotting notes down including the native MemoPad app which is simple and to the point.  NoteIt makes it even easier to take notes as it places a link in every menu to start typing notes up.  This way you don’t have to navigate to your applications folder or home screen searching for a notes app.

The cool part is that all notes you take get automatically saved to MemoPad.  You don’t have to go full third party on your notes.  Look at NoteIt as a shortcut to your MemoPad from anywhere you want.

NoteIt for BlackBerry >>

BlackBerry DevCon 2011 is here at last, and we are here covering it live.  This year RIM is giving out Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium free for all developers attending the event.  The software is intended to build good applications for BlackBerry Tablet OS via Adobe AIR.

On a side note, Adobe is providing two code camps for help setting up Flash Builder to work well with the BlackBerry PlayBook.  If you’re attending DevCon, visit the Adobe booth for more info and free software!

We’re hearing more about the BlackBerry Bold 9790 lately as we expect the launch to be any day now.  Koodo Mobile is expected to pick up the device soon as well as we see leaked screenshots of their inventory system showing the device with a $400 price tag.  The Bold 9790 is the same form factor as the 9700 series but with upped specs under the hood including a 1.2GHz processor, touchscreen, OS 7, and NFC capability.

Source: MobileSyrup

Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced today that a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than US $100 will be offered free of charge to subscribers as an expression of appreciation for their patience during the recent service disruptions. The apps will be made available to customers over the coming weeks on BlackBerry® App World™ and will continue to be available until December 31, 2011.*

“Our global network supports the communications needs of more than 70 million customers,” said RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. “We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers. We’ve worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we’re committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future.”

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BBM Music got a new update in BlackBerry Beta Zone to version 1.0.0.117.  Moments later, RIM pulled the release out and put up this notice: