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Can Microsoft Windows Phone & Nokia Replace BlackBerry in Enterprise?

It's so easy to get up and running with your first Windows Phone app!  Just pick up the FREE toolkit from Microsoft, register at AppHub, and start checking out some fundamental tutorials.

Jeremy Windmiller in his blog post wonders: “Can Microsoft Windows Phone & Nokia Replace BlackBerry in Enterprise ? ”.Jeremy talks about a scenario posed by the VP of IS Infrastructure at a Midwest Healthcare System to several colleagues for...

0 replies - 3295 views - 09/26/11 by Senthil Kumar in News

Daily Dose: BlackBerry Software Chief May Have Resigned

According to tech news site BGR, it's possible that Suresh Periyalwar, Research In Motion's head of Blackberry software, has left the company after 10 years of service. RIM has been going through a tough time recently, as their stock has fallen more than 60%...

0 replies - 12158 views - 07/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose

Adaptive UI: Mobile vs Tablet

The screen size of a tablet device is much bigger than a smartphone one. It’s very close to a desktop one. If you plan to develop a mobile application and run it on smarphones and tablets, you need to adapt the UI (your views) for several reasons: user...

2 replies - 5880 views - 06/24/11 by Michael Chaize in News

Tivo Remote with QNX for BlackBerry Tablet

For my next foray into mobile development with Flex and AIR, I'm trying an application with the default UI of the BlackBerry Tablet, the QNX api.

0 replies - 3551 views - 04/28/11 by Terrence Ryan in News

Debugging Error with PlayBook Emulator

I ran into an issues while trying to launch a PlayBook app from Flash Builder Burrito in Debugging Mode.I launched and the "Launching [Application name]" indicator in the bottom right corner just slowly inched up to 100%, but nothing happened....

0 replies - 3738 views - 04/15/11 by Terrence Ryan in News

Application Ecosystem for the BlackBerry PlayBook

According to their press release, RIM has officially announced the ecosystem for applications that will run on the PlayBook tablet. Below is a quote from the release:

0 replies - 2627 views - 03/28/11 by Mihai Fonoage in News

Using Backgrounds and Borders in BlackBerry Super Apps

The use of field background colors and rounded borders is a great way to enhance the user experience in your BlackBerry applications.Let’s examine how to create a screen with a nice linear background, and a rounded border for the region that contains the...

1 replies - 3744 views - 03/28/11 by Jorge Ramon in News

BlackBerry PlayBook Browser has Advanced HTML5 support

The PlayBook tablet from RIM is about to be released in the following months. Its browser seems to have advanced (de facto) standards support, including Accelerometer, Adobe Flash Player, Web Sockets and Web Workers. In this post I will analyze browser’s...

1 replies - 5059 views - 02/18/11 by Maximiliano Firtman in News

RIM Releases BlackBerry WebWorks Platform

At this week's BlackBerry Developer Conference 2010, Research In Motion (RIM) launched its new open source web app development platform.  BlackBerry claims over 50 million customers and most research firms are still finding that they have the largest...

0 replies - 5468 views - 09/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Daily Dose - Helios First Service Release

This week's Eclipse 3.6.1 release does not contain any new functionality but provides a healthy amount of bugfixes for the first service release of the "Helios" edition.  Helios consists of about 40 Eclipse projects, including IDEs for Java, PHP,...

1 replies - 15410 views - 09/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apache Celebrates its Millionth Code Commit

lucene/ r1000000 yonik SOLR-2128: full param substitution for function queriesThis was the 1,000,000th commit at the Apache Foundation this week contributed by Yonik Seeley, the creator of Apache Solr.  The commit was to Solr's parent project, Lucene. ...

0 replies - 15582 views - 09/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Enterprise and Mobile Development

If you’re following my blogs from last years, you know that I’m developing in the domain of Enterprise Applications – in reality I’m designing and developing Enterprise Business Applications much longer then blogging about: will be around 30 years

2 replies - 5117 views - 09/22/10 by Ekkehard Gentz in News

BlackBerry 6 and the SDK Land

This week, Research In Motion released the sixth BlackBerry platform, which is aimed at bringing the company's handsets into alignment with iPhone and Android technologies.  Along with this release, developers finally have a chance to get their hands on the...

1 replies - 4769 views - 08/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

JadBlack Tool Accelerates Java Development & Adds Database Features to BlackBerry Smartphone Applications

A South American firm specializing in software for BlackBerry smartphones, frustrated in its search for rapid development tools, is launching its own solution, called JadBlack (Java Accelerated Development for BlackBerry). A key JadBlack feature is its use...

0 replies - 1074 views - 07/20/10 by Ted Kenney in Announcements

Daily Dose - Apache Elects New Board

At today's annual ASF members meeting, the attendees voted for the next board of directors.  Returning board members include Doug Cutting, Roy T. Fielding, Shane Curcuru, Greg Stein, and Jim Jagielski the chairman.  New members include Bertrand Delacretaz...

2 replies - 10785 views - 07/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose