There is a lot going around about the recent announcement of BIS 3.0 and some confusion about whether it will include a Gmail 2-way sync. The first users to get the update were in South-East Asia, with EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) following. Users in these regions have been reporting a lack of Gmail sync leaving North American users wondering if it’s going to happen

Since the rest of the smartphone world also got a Foursquare app update, it doesn’t really come as a surprise the BlackBerry version got bumped to version 1.7. As SXSW gets set to kick off in Austin, Texas, Foursquare and its location based counterpart Gowalla have kind of been in heated battle for the attention of users in attendance. It’ll be a bloody badge showdown for sure

There are a ton of conditions in that title, isn’t there?

Download Podcast .MP3 Directly | Podcast Feed | Subscribe in iTunes We’re bacccCKKKK! I guess we’re getting pretty good with this bi-weekly podcast thiing. In this CrackBerry Radio episode we go through all of the BlackBerry news that was Mobile World Congress 2010 and we catch up on other app announcements and BlackBerry news and rumor. We kick it CrackBerry old school on this one which means we go a bit long and off topic, but hardcore enthusiasts will appreciate it regardless.

Lots of news this week came out of Mobile World Congress 2010 and the biggest news from RIM is the announcement of BES Express. BES Express is a free version of BES, with watered-down features but a lot of the same functionality. This is big news for the SMB market, but it’s a little disappointing to the average consumer

Download Podcast .MP3 Directly | Podcast Feed | Subscribe in iTunes Mobile World Congress 2010 is winding down which means Dieter, Phil and myself are packing our bags and heading home.

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.

First of all, I wanted to thank BlackBerry Cool for the chance to win a invitation code for “Twitter for BlackBerry” through Facebook ! I am already getting good use out of the app and I thought I would share some of my thoughts about the app. When I heard for the first time that RIM was working on a Twitter app my first reaction was negative

We’re proud to say that The iPhone Blog is now TiPb: your #1 iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad blog ! A little SPE network news before we get to our weekly list o’links. We’ve been calling TiPb ‘TiPb’ instead of ‘The iPhone Blog’ for so long now, we figured we may as well make it official

Since the introduction of Wi-Fi on the BlackBerry, and the Bold 9000, RIM’s first 3G BlackBerry, surfing the web on our handsets has been faster than ever. Still, BlackBerry users will be getting an extra kick in speed according to a recent patent application by RIM entitled, ” SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING NETWORK BROWSING SPEED BY SETTING A PROXY SERVER ON A HANDHELD DEVICE .” Who doesn’t want faster browsing speeds? The patent sheds a little light on how data is transferred now, and the solution RIM plans to offer to make that process more efficient