At the BlackBerry Jam Session at BlackBerry Live in Orlando Florida,  the guys from Moog took the stage and announced that they would be launching  their brand new app for the BlackBerry 10 this Thursday. The Moog app will launch at a promotional price of 99 cents, until the following Thursday. Its standard price of 9.99 is what you can grab the Moog app for after this promotion.

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Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz on the all new BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and all the organizations who have decided to choose the service in their mobile solution.  The LA County’s Sheriff Department has decided to deploy BES 10 mainly for BlackBerry Balance – a feature allowing users to have only one single device for both personal and business.  Hit the jump below for the full press release.

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Here’s a great tool for developers building on BlackBerry 10!  Flurry Analytics has partnered up with BlackBerry to bring an awesome tool for developers which generates analytics and enables access  to user data.  In a neat dashboard form, developers can receive a better idea on demographics, purchasing patterns and more!  Read more on the analytics tool below in the official press release from BlackBerry and Flurry.  Also, read more on the BlackBerry Developer Blog.

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BlackBerry Jam Keynote has kicked off at BlackBerry Live in Orlando Florida. To kick things off were some awesome facts about the BlackBerry Application Ecosystem. BlackBerry has nearly 250,000 apps available in BlackBerry World, and out of that 120,000 are available for BlackBerry 10 devices. What a great time to be a BlackBerry consumer. BlackBerry as a company is very dedicated to providing their consumers with rich content and they are doing so by working very closely with their developers.

Currently the supported 2.3 engine for the Android Player sometimes doesn’t cut it for application you’d like to have on BlackBerry 10, or maybe you want to side load an a converted .apk to bar application yourself but it’s not supported by the old school runtime environment.  Announced at BlackBerry Jam, the Android Player for BlackBerry 10 is getting upgraded to 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean).  We already see many developers bring their Android applications to BlackBerry, so seeing an enhanced player will definitely be a huge plus in the future roadmap of Android application on the BlackBerry platform.

BBM Channels is a new BBM service being offered within BBM which bring the conversation to a closer following and higher level interaction.  Look at it more like a social network connecting people together on subjects and topics they care about.

"BBM is the best way to stay connected, and with today’s announcement, we’re again expanding the capabilities of the service to provide a deeper real-time engagement experience for people to connect with brands, business, and communities that matter most to them," said Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President of Software Product Management and Ecosystem at BlackBerry. "With over 60 million highly engaged customers using BBM, content creators have a great opportunity to build deeper relationships, enhance their brands, and connect in new ways."

Given that BBM will be going cross platform pretty soon, features like BBM Channels might actually work and turn into something huge and popular.  More on the new social network below after the jump.

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Previously towards the end of the BlackBerry Live 2013 Keynote, CEO Thorten dropped the huge news that BlackBerry would open up BBM for Android and iOS.  Check out the full press release below for more details on the release coming this summer.

WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – May 14, 2013) – BlackBerry(R) (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) today announced plans to make its ground-breaking mobile social network, BlackBerry(R) Messenger (BBM(TM)), available to iOS(R) and Android(TM) users this summer, with support planned for iOS6, and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or higher, all subject to approval by the Apple App Store and Google Play. BBM sets the standard for mobile instant messaging with a fast, reliable, engaging experience that includes delivered and read statuses, and personalized profiles and avatars. Upon release, BBM customers would be able to broaden their connections to include friends, family and colleagues on other mobile platforms.

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The rumors and suspicions are finally over.  BlackBerry CEO announced officially that BlackBerry Messenger will be launching officially over iOS and Android officially by this summer.  Many folks in the crowd are excited for the news as BBM is being targeted as a signature mobile messaging device.  Where does this put other cross platform messenger applications such as Whatsapp? Let’s not go there yet, but this is some pretty exciting news and was definitely years in waiting for lots of users.

Alicia Keys took the stage and gave us a brief teaser of what’s ahead tonight with Universal Studios and the Keep On Moving tour featuring some start up bands and Miguel (and of course Alicia herself).  Also, Keys announced the all new BlackBerry Scholars Program for women in the world studying science, technology, engineering and math.  It’s a 4 year scholarship program which women in the whole world can sign up.  Check out more below for more information below after the jump.

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Along with T-Mobile, Verizon is hopping on the BlackBerry Q10 as well.  Although no launch date has been set, we assume it should be with the rest of the US launches in June.  For the time being, you can sign up on Verizon’s portal page to be notified on the availability of the device.  It is 4G LTE, and wrapped in Verizon branding.  You guys are the best Big Red!

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