We’ve been talking about the BIS 3.0 upgrade for a while now.

We’ve been waiting to see exactly how this one turned out for everyone. But as most of you know the past few days for Verizon Storm 2 owners have been rather interesting. BerryScoop got tipped the news about the possibility of Verizon being reissued Storm 2 devices due to a screen issue.

* UPDATE- Gizmofusion has the launch date pegged at March 14th * Remember the days when you could pick up a BlackBerry Curve and Pearl in just about every color of the rainbow? I certainly do

We had the pleasure of announcing the beta testing phase for VersaTool not too long ago. Now VersaTool has reached the point where it’s waiting for acceptance into BlackBerry App World.

Certainly seems that way. Above you can see the AT&T download site where BlackBerry Desktop Manager is to be downloaded for AT&T customers

Slacker fans rejoice, Slacker 3.0 is now available for download! The biggest change is that you can now cache your stations wirelessly while you sleep for a fresh brew of music to go with your morning coffee. It’s available for download now via your BlackBerry browser at http://www.slacker.com or App World. Per Slacker, here are some of the new features in version 3.0: • Updated interface • Faster application startup time • Significantly smaller application size • Improved touch interface for BlackBerry Storm • Greatly improved battery life • New settings menu options • Tabbed info view for lyrics, reviews and biographies Check out the full release after the break.

Needless to say, we’re gonna stick the fat rumor tag on this one. But, according to the folks over at The Street it seems investors and analysts were given reason to worry about Research In Motion at some point in time.

Continuing on with the BlackBerry Developer webinars, Research In Motion has just announced another one for those out there looking to design, build and deploy super apps onto the BlackBerry platform. The last webinar was focused on UI designs and this one will fall along the same vein most certainly, given the definiton of super apps which make use of all the BlackBerry UI aspects. Here is a run down of what will be covered: design apps that are stickier, more intuitive, more engaging and more valuable to users maximize network efficiency and battery life with “always-on” apps that run in the background, quietly waiting for the right time to spring into action add custom menu items and data to the Inbox, Address Book and Calendar so your apps are always one click away leverage true push technology to deliver “just-in-time” data with audible notifications and customized messages   The webinar will be held on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 2:00PM EST with Mike Kirkup, Director, Developer Relations at Research In Motion doing the presentation.

Some of you all may remember back to CES when Kodak was showing off their new BlackBerry offerings . Shortly after playing friendly at CES, Kodak then decided to bring forth some patent issues with Research In Motion and Apple at the same time, claiming both companies were infringing upon Kodaks image and image processing patents.

Download Podcast .MP3 Directly | Podcast Feed | Subscribe in iTunes Following up on RIM’s announcement of BES Express , demo of their WebKit browser and discussion on Super Apps yesterday in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2010 , I had a chance to get some clarification and answers direct from RIM today. I haven’t had a whole bunch of time to catch up on my RSS feeds and forum post reading since these stories broke, but from the little I have seen so far it seems there has been at least some confusion and questions (and even rumors) out there surrounding these topics. I sat down with Rory O’Neill and Mike Kirkup of Research in Motion and in 18 minutes set the record straight and get some additional details as to what it all means for BlackBerry users.