ReQall, a kind of memory aid software newly available on BlackBerrys, aims to help.
RIM, meanwhile, has long held the Pentagon's top security approvals for its older-model BlackBerrys.
Just as you can on some older BlackBerrys, you can also launch applications by typing.
Technology, too, may have had a role, for BlackBerrys were widely used to summon mobs.
The KIN data plans are the same ones Verizon requires for BlackBerrys or other high-end smartphones.
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Remember that BlackBerrys and other devices exist to make your life easier, not to rule it.
Rare earths are exotic materials used in everything from BlackBerrys to radars to hybrid vehicles.
Saunders says this mobile payments capability will roll out to more BlackBerrys in the future.
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Business travelers used to work almost exclusively on their BlackBerrys or their big laptops.
Research in Motion is banking on their new BlackBerrys to turn around an ailing company.
First, Home Depot decided to replace BlackBerrys with iPhones for many of their employees.
Jessica Simpson and Mariah Carey are also notorious for holding on to slightly outdated BlackBerrys, says Chui.
BlackBerrys, so the new security approvals won't likely translate into any immediate, big sales or new customers.
Around me, all these stodgy, old IBMers are flipping through iPads, tapping on iPhones and fingering BlackBerrys.
Our digital immersion--from laptops and BlackBerrys to iPads and Droids--has spawned rapid-fire innovation in retail financial services.
Update: I am told that it is BlackBerrys as the plural, not Blackberries as I have it.
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The phone's browser also loads Web pages more quickly--slow browsing is a frequent criticism of BlackBerrys in general.
Carrier support in the U.S., where the new BlackBerrys are expected in mid-March, has been modest at most.
New York City startup Raketu offers VoIP calls on certain BlackBerrys, as well as the iPhone and iPod touch.
RIM's customers then were overwhelmingly companies, which gave their employees BlackBerrys for email.
That still chiefly means television, but more and more people also follow sport on computers, BlackBerrys and mobile phones.
And the first phone to use it, the Z10, looks much more like its rivals than like traditional BlackBerrys.
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Following the iPhone are a number of high-profile BlackBerrys from Research in Motion, along with devices using Google Inc.
The popularity of iPads, iPhones and BlackBerrys may be largely responsible, as MicroStrategy develops and distributes products for those devices.
A-list couples like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes also have BlackBerrys, according to Chui.
Alan Brenner, RIM's head of application development, says the company has worked the past two years to make BlackBerrys more developer-friendly.
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Older BlackBerrys are great communications devices, but are poor at multimedia and at running third-party apps, something the iPhone excels at.
As IT departments have let employees buy their own smartphones, more of them are choosing iPhones and Android devices over BlackBerrys.
The device, which is about the size of a cigarette lighter, plugs into iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets and BlackBerrys.
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But from those humble origins, this maker of cases that protect mobile devices such as Blackberrys and iPhones has enjoyed explosive growth.
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