[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] We first reviewed Nobex Radio Companion just over a year ago now and it has proven to be a must-install BlackBerry app for music lovers, allowing you to listen to over 3000 radio stations around the world and see the playlist of over 2700 radio stations. If you’ve never downloaded it before, be sure to give it a go. The odds are good you’ll be glad you did

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] Following up our on-location live blog and podcast last week from the 2009 BlackBerry Alliance Summit in Rome, Italy, this week we’ll be posting up some video interviews captured at the event by our friend Ewan MacLeod of MobileIndustryReview.com and MobileDeveloper.com . Be sure to check both sites out! First up is an interview with Tony Bristol of Multiplied Media , developers of the popular Poynt application for BlackBerry Smartphones. Poynt is an award-winning, all-in-one, local search service and is currently available on BlackBerry smartphones in Canada, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. At the 2009 Innovation Awards ceremony held at the event, Poynt went home as the winner of the Life on BlackBerry category.

RIM have released Service Pack 1 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino .

These days concerns for parents are high when their children have mobile devices. With the release of Net Nanny Mobile today, some parents can plan to be one step ahead of technology now

Just a quick update of some official OS’ that popped up today. It looks like CBeyond has released OS 4.7.1.65 for the Tour 9630 (not a huge update, but a few clicks up from the latest Verizon and Sprint releases). Cosmote has also released OS 4.5.0.181 for the 8800, 8820 and 8100 as well.

SMobile Systems and Net Nanny have partnered to bring the Net Nanny solution to BlackBerry. Net Nanny Mobile gives parents the ability to protect their kids and family from misconduct, exploitation, unwanted communications, sexting, loss and theft, cyber bullying, malware and online predators. Features include: Monitoring View the content of Email, SMS and MMS messages on the phone.

Over the Thanksgiving holidays RIM held the BlackBerry Alliance Program’s EMEA Innovations Awards. The awards are in their 2nd year and showcase companies innovating in the BlackBerry space. Congratulations to all the companies who won, and those participated.

   It seems like more and more retailers are catching on to consumer’s mobile ways and are launching streamlined mobile sites. Crate and Barrel is the latest, and have launched an optimized site on the Usablenet platform that allows users to browse and purchase their full line of products from supported mobile devices. The site is automatically redirected when a mobile browser is detected and offers slimmed-down text navigation.

The BlackBerry Storm 2 has arrived to try and save the BlackBerry touch screen reputation after a pretty disastrous Storm 1 entrance last year. I used a Storm 1 and can safely say that while I’m a huge fan of Research In Motion ’s (RIM) BlackBerry products (I’ve been a user since 2000), I was excited to see how RIM would jump into the touch screen Smartphone ring, and then immediately disappointed at the product I was holding in my hands

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