As expected, Research In Motion has been sending out scheduled maintenance notifications to admins and carriers as they prepare to roll BIS 3.0 to North American users ( view BIS 3.0 feature doc ). Dates and timeframes are as follows, so you can all prepare for the inevitable loss of data connections: There will be scheduled network maintenance by Research In Motion (RIM) affecting BIS customers between 0100 CT / 0200 EDT on March 28th and 0500 CT / 0600 EDT on March 28th

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.

There are some images that are said to be of BlackBerry OS 6.0 floating around today. BBLeaks says the “spy shot images come highly regarded as real from one our best connects.” It could be just a mock up, or it could be something more but it is interesting.

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] Back on St. Patty’s day we announced here on the blogs that Need for Speed Shift 3D for the BlackBerry Storm2 finally hit App World

Contest and Sale: Chance to win a Free 5BARz Road Warrior; Save $20 if you purchase the 5BARz Road Warrior from ShopCrackBerry.com by March 26th. Full Details below… [ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] We got a new accessory into the ShopCrackBerry.com store this week that I haven’t had a chance to use personally yet, but in speaking with some of the folks who have used it and checking around the net it is getting glowing reviews…

If you use Tumblr for blogging you might want to check out the official BlackBerry Tumblr App. The app has all of the functionality you’ll need. You can post audio and video, and do just about everything from your BlackBerry.Judging by the amount of comments on the Tumblr Blog, it looks like a lot of people are using it

RIM recently announced that some exciting things were coming to the BlackBerry Messenger.

This is a guest post written by Joe Pawlikowski.

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] One of the first videos I ever did up for CrackBerry.com was a BlackBerry 101 on How to Install the MicroSD Card into your BlackBerry Smartphone . To this day it is still one of the most popular articles viewed on CrackBerry.com though back in October 2007 there were only a few BlackBerry device models on the market that actually accepted a MicroSD card. We’re into 2010 now so I figured it was time to do a little update covering both MicroSD card installation and SIM card installation

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