We're told that HTML5 BlackBerry 10 applications can run on the tech after some tweaks for screen resolution -- much like the web-based key fob that you'll see here.
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Such outreach is particularly important for RIM because it is using a new, proprietary operating system for the PlayBook and thus cannot assume that existing BlackBerry developers will write applications for it.
Our developer teams are continuing to generate momentum to bring a wealth of applications to BlackBerry 10, our enterprise teams have started to present BlackBerry 10 devices and services to our business customers, and our engineers are fully mobilized to ensure that BlackBerry 10 launches flawlessly in the first quarter of 2013.
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It also supports BlackBerry Balance technology, which elegantly separates and secures work applications and data from personal content on BlackBerry devices.
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For end-users, navigating web-based applications on the BlackBerry browser was cumbersome at best.
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BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 re-invents RIM's EMM by bringing together device management, industry leading security, and mobile applications management for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, and new BlackBerry 10 smartphones in a consolidated solution.
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Support for secure separation of work and personal applications and data on BlackBerry 10 smartphones through BlackBerry Balance technology.
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Add to this that the BlackBerry developer community has been writing applications for serious business users for a very long time while both the Apple and Android developer communities, by and large, are completely focused on consumer applications such as games, access to social networking sites, and video and audio downloading and playback.
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With rising e-commerce facilitated by sophisticated user-friendly applications on the iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Symbian, we expect mobile shopping to draw sales sales volume away from Avon until the company can expand its online and mobile presence.
Therefore, we plan to build on our strengths to go after targeted consumer segments, and we will seek strong partnerships to deliver those consumer features and content that are not central to the BlackBerry valuable position, for example, media consumption applications.
As co-managing partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund, he invests in companies that make applications for mobile computing devices.
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It's still a three-element UI, with a central home screen showing running applications, an app grid, and the BlackBerry hub -- a feed of time sensitive notifications from email, calendar, BBM, social apps and more.
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Yahoo says it plans to continue to invest in the evolving Koprol service, including mobile applications, like its newly released app for the BlackBerry.
BlackBerry are cagey on how many of these are retooled Android applications in their recent press releases, but at the start of February the total was around 40%.
Right now everyone could probably rattle off their three favourite mobile applications, and they would not all be on the BlackBerry platform.
Tablets are taking off faster than any new technology since email, said TL Neff executive vice president at Verivo, which has developed a platform that allows users to deliver applications across multiple mobile platforms including iPad, Android and BlackBerry.
Its first iPhone was NOT a business-friendly phone, but after three generations of iPhones it now has an offering that competes well with the BlackBerry when it comes to corporate email and other personal information management applications (though it still falls short when it comes to other business applications).
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's BlackBerry Torch, a smartphone that uses grids of images to represent its applications, but the images are not set in uniform squares with rounded corners.
Secondly (and this is something BlackBerry is clearly aware of) the smartphone game is as much about applications as it is about fancy graphical layers on your UI.
So RIM, anxious to get into the tablet game and paranoid they would lose critical market share, rolled out a device with only short-range WiFi connectivity, a goofy scheme to bridge to a Blackberry for access to the Internet through a carrier, and essentially no applications software.
For now, Sterling supports the iPhone and iPad through a set of applications delivered through the Apple App Store, and WebSphere offers iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry support through a mobile browser.
But Barclays' Kvaal contends that RIM's push technology will continue to be a "major differentiator" for BlackBerry devices and services, particularly since RIM allows outside developers to use the feature in their applications.
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