Happy 2010 to all! Hope you had an enjoyable holiday, and a safe (and fun) New Years… I know I did. With CES in full swing, let’s get right down to business.

MyBlackBerry has been live for some time now and it is part of a bigger social media push at RIM. The company is leveraging Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs, to send out their message. InsideBlackBerry sat down with MyBlackBerry’s Community Manager Becky Young, to talk about the project and social media at RIM in general

While RIM releases device after device that combines form factors, we’re still waiting for them to include new features in the hardware and software. Adding these components will add to the price, but they also unlock a plethora of possibilities for developers

How to write a BlackBerry application – Lesson 3: Open a webpage, system-wide menu Item, adding an icon and yes/no dialog This is lesson 3 in a series of BlackBerry application development lessons . These lessons are intended to bring someone with no experience in developing applications for BlackBerry, up to speed with the latest development techniques.

ReportAway! is an app to help you capture expense and time sheet information. With ReportAway!

The BrightKite blog has announced an open source BlackBerry app called BrightBerry. The code was made open source by Chris Hallgren, and is available with OS 4.5 and higher. BrightBerry currently lets you: * View and navigate your streams (Friends, Nearby, Universe, Mentions, and User) * Post a Note to your current location * Check in to Placemarks * Send and receive Direct Messages * View and post comments on a post The following features are not yet available with BrightBerry but are currently being worked on: * Posting photos from camera capture and media viewer * Sending and responding to Friend Requests * Creation of Placemarks * Viewing a Place Stream * Improving load times on streams * Creating a better GUI based on the iPhone app Download BrightBerry by visiting bbhn.mobi from your BlackBerry Browser

This article is the first in a series of articles about BlackBerry development. With App World, third party software vendors and the web, there are a ton of opportunities for an independent developer to make money. BlackBerry Development in Java - Lection 1: Basic fields in the User Interface Let’s get right into it