Yet another awesome week here at BlackBerryCool and if you're in Canada, you're probably getting ready to celebrate the long weekend. We have a long list of articles that you may have missed this week, so take the time to bookmark this page for some...

Huddle is a collaboration tool that looks a little like BaseCamp. It features discussion boards, project management, document sharing, wikis, and conferencing. Huddle have recently announced a free BlackBerry app that gives you access to this collabo...

The year is 2010 and black monoliths are appearing in AT&T stores in anticipation for the launch of the 9800. The first time black monoliths appeared were in the prehistoric times when they were discovered by a group of hominids and it somehow t...

The official BlackBerry YouTube channel features a pretty cool video demonstrating the benefits of the BlackBerry platform for enterprise. The video does a good job of explaining in simple terms why an organization should use the BlackBerry "platform...

BlackBerry App World 2.0 is now available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone as an invite-based beta. If you're registered for the Beta Zone, you'll hopefully get a beta invite. App World 2.0 will launch with the following features and enhancements:

The BlackBerry Bold 9780 is a pretty slick looking device that is basically the Bold 9700 but with some minor tweaks to the look and running BlackBerry 6. The above video of the 9780 gives a 5 minute walkthrough of some of the features including a pr...

The domain BlackPad.com has been registered by RIM and it looks like it could be a precursor to the launch of a BlackBerry tablet. We have heard the tablet could be named the Cobalt but maybe this means BlackPad is the final name.

BerryGoodThemes let us know that they're having a great sale right now for the month of July. From now until the end of the month, all BerryGoodThemes are on sale at $1 each - that's 75% off!. The company has some cool themes that are definitely wort...

Today ParkVu is announcing updates to Music WithMe, the BlackBerry app that lets you wirelessly sync your iTunes playlists with your BlackBerry. Tracks are downloaded via cellular network or Wi-Fi, stored on the media card and played from the BlackBe...

We keep hearing that 512MB of RAM is the minimum requirement for OS 6 and while this hasn't been confirmed by RIM, it's good to know that devices such as the BlackBerry Bold 9650 will also be getting BlackBerry 6. It's very possible that the OS 6 rol...

We have talked a lot about RIM's presence in Indonesia and the success of BlackBerry in Southeast Asia. The powerful and professional BlackBerry brand goes a long way when selling young Indonesians on the smartphone. Also, in Southeast Asia, smartpho...

Up until fairly recently users have been asking us where to get an app that allows someone running OS 5 to send more than the CDMA defined 160 characters in an SMS. Beyond160 has been a great app for allowing users to do this but it was not available...

MissingLight is a custom LED alert app that has recently been updated to version 2.0. The app is similar to BerryBuzz in that you can customize the LED colors based on certain applications in order to have your BlackBerry communicate with you better....

S4BB has just released a new game for BlackBerry called Warehouse Keeper. The game is based on the classic puzzle game Sokoban where you have to push blocks around a map into particular spaces strategically without hitting 2 blocks together and getti...

It looks like the BlackBerry Torch Slider 9800 will be announced on August 3rd due to an invite that's going around to all the tech and BlackBerry related media. The invite prominently features an AT&T logo, BlackBerry 6 icons and a giant '6' in...

Last week we wrote about a signal measuring app from Xtreme Labs that was launched in response to the claims made by Apple that the Bold 9700 and other smartphones have antenna issues. Hayes.mobi has launched its BlackBerry radio monitoring utility c...

The BlackBerry Bold 9780 is out again and it's good to see a non-touchscreen BlackBerry running 6. The About screen in these pictures shows the device running OS 6.0.0.79 and platform 6.5.0.9. The Application Storage section shows 306.1MB of free spa...

Damaka has announced its launching its mobile Unified Collaboration and Communication platform on BlackBerry. The platform seeks to allow users to collaborate across a variety of applications regardless of their platform or network. Damaka's services...

The Cartan theme by Hedone Design is really cute. With its rolling, bright green hills, it's very reminiscent of Mario Brothers and the SNES. This theme features multiple animated homescreens, unique icons and even a ringtone with all OS 5.0 devices.

It's incredible how fast Google updates its products. That is the beauty of having a company that is so engineer-heavy. Google Maps for Android has seen 6 updates in 6 months and today the company previewed Google Maps 4.4 and said that BlackBerry wi...

This week, AccelGolf launched a new BlackBerry version of their GPS Rangefinder and Scorecard app. The app works for the BlackBerry Curve, Bold, Tour, Storm, Storm2, 8800, and Pearl models. The GPS Rangefinder app provides three modes of distance tra...

Verizon may be giving the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 and the Curve 8530 an End of Life. This seems like a very fast EOL notice considering these devices are less than a year old, so it makes you wonder what's going on behind the scenes that would lead to...

Inside BlackBerry sat down with Joey Benedek, Director of UX Research at RIM. The UX organization is responsible for understanding user needs and desires and translating those into interface designs. Benedek walks us through some of the new features...

The Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL 4.1 specification. The OpenGL standard allows developers to create rich 2D and 3D graphics that makes BlackBerry games look especially good. There aren't many devices that can take advantage o...

The BlackBerry Desktop Manager 6 was recently announced in the Beta Zone but a lot of users in the forums were saying that they had not received their invite. A leaked version of the software is now available so if you're feeling a little adventurous...

It's interesting to see the sort of issues RIM comes across as its product finds itself in various countries around the world. Arab countries in particular have some pretty strict concerns about security and recently, government officials have commen...

UberTwitter Beta 8 is now available for download and it has some cool features that are very unique to BlackBerry Twitter clients. One particularly cool feature, is the ability to mute Twitter users so that you can continue to follow them, but their...

Sprint Nextel has announced that it is rolling out a new service called NextMail, powered by Pacific DataVision, that will be available across all Sprint BlackBerry Curves. With NextMail, users can wirelessly dictate important messages while on-the-g...

Samir Sakpal, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan, claims that the upcoming 4G BlackBerry is codenamed Triton and is expected to offer a 5.0MP front and back facing camera. “The word is that they will have features such as a 5.0 megapixel camera...

The BlackBerry Torch Slider is potentially coming to Vodafone in the September/October timeframe. We have heard that 9800 will be coming to Rogers, Sprint and AT&T as well. Release dates aren't confirmed yet but the Torch Slider is probably goin...