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.

I recently caught up with an old friend, RogersDude69 , and had a long conversation about retail and smartphones.

Today is a bit of a slow news day in the BlackBerry world and slow days are almost always accompanied by lots of fluff editorial pieces. I know every site is guilty of the odd nonsense piece, and BlackBerryCool is no different, but I just found today had some particularly bad editorials. Here are a few: The tech-savvy life of a BlackBerry guru Blackberry: Revolutionising the smartphone world Confessions of an iPhone Chick: BlackBerry envy King PIN: Jay Electronica’s Obsession With Blackberry Messenger I’m sure there are more

If I had to boil the week down to the biggest news, I’d say it’s centered around the news that Verizon is dropping a ton of older devices from their inventory. There were rumors from analysts that the Storm (probably the 9530) was going to be nixed because it wasn’t selling well and there were so many complaints about the device.

RIM need a face for the BlackBerry brand and my vote is for Miranda Kerr. It’s Friday so anything goes when it comes to posts. Enjoy! ? Matt Cameron aka W4LNUT for BlackBerry Cool , 2010

You may find your BlackBerry running slowly and often times this can be resolved with a few simple steps.

The most exciting news this week was definitely checking out the BlackBerry Magnum. It’s really a shame that this device will never see the light of day (sources tell us), but it’s still very possible that a touchscreen/QWERTY hybrid is in the cards

After Matt wrote about the BlackBerry launcher for foursquare , we got a link to the Beta and I thought I’d post some impressions and screenshots of the app because it’s really cool, and personally I feel like it’s ready for launch. The foursquare BlackBerry app has all the features you would expect including checkins, shout outs, place search, leaderboards and access to the foursquare place directory. The leaderboard is a fun way to track the progress of your friends on foursquare.

This is the first week after the holidays and there were some great apps launched as well as some awesome apps such as UberTwitter have been updated. We’re also expecting big updates from Slacker and Poynt in the near future so keep an eye out for them. Stay tuned for some CES 2010 coverage, with BlackBerry Cool correspondent and power user Nan Palmero