Some big news this week included pictures of the BlackBerry Slider, some BIS 3.0 details as well as more pictures of the upcoming Pearl 9100. The Slider is shaping up to be an interesting form factor from RIM, but it could be a headache for developers.

Back in ‘94, Bluetooth was invented and standardized to be a wireless cable replacement technology. After a long battle with adoption and interoperability, Bluetooth is now standard issue in most smartphones, road-ready laptops, and a slew of other devices that connect to them wirelessly.

This has been around for a few days now and I wanted to write a review of sorts on the service. The idea of being able to create BBM barcodes on your Facebook profile is a great idea . Facebook is the perfect portal to BlackBerry users who aren’t power users and familiar with all the features that BlackBerry has to offer.

Dipdive is a social network created by will.i.am that began as a place to host the video “ Yes We Can ” and has expanded to be somewhat like MySpace.

Elecite have launched a new theme called Ember for the Curve 8900, Bold 9000 and 9700, Storm 9500, and Tour 9600. Ember is a dark theme with 6-7 customizable icons, a weather slot, 9-11 locked “block” icons and a Today Preview area for the 8900, 9500, 9600 and 9700 devices. Check out the Ember theme from Elecite

SocialScope is still very much in private beta but their app has continues to grow and get updated.

A new version of Visible Vote is out that allows users to compare themselves to any member of Congress. Visible Vote allows you to write congress personal letters from your Blackberry, as well as vote on issues your legislators are voting on. It’s the ultimate democratic BlackBerry app.

Tumblr finally have their official BlackBerry app available for download and so far it looks really good.

Fabian let us know that LaterDude Pro has been updated to version 3.0.2 with some general improvements to the app as well as new features.

The United States Air Force has over 30,000 BlackBerrys in their inventory, accounting for over 50 percent of the Department of Defense’s total BlackBerry deployment. During the month of March, the Air Force will be implementing security updates to their BlackBerrys in order to better protect the organization from cyber threats. The following configuration changes will be implemented within the month of March: Users will no longer have the capability to send or receive text messages with attached photos or videos.