Foursquare have updated their BlackBerry app to version 1.5 and now you can check tips from the app. Tips are a great feature of Foursquare in that they let you find out more about the restaurant or venue you’re at. Since the app has Yelp integration, I think there’s an opportunity to combine tips with reviews, to give the user more information about the venue they’re visiting.

The Kedlin Company have announced their BlackBerry app Call Control, which was voted the Best Save Time App by the Verizon development community. The app syncs with a community-generated blacklist of spam callers, to help stop telemarketers and unwanted calls from reaching your phone .

Oratio is a BlackBerry app for the blind and visually impaired that allows users that comes at an astronomical cost but is sure to bring a lot of value to those that need it . The app gives the user the ability to effectively communicate using IM, emails, SMS and MMS, as well as calls and access to Caller ID

Twinkler Software let us know that they have rewritten InstantLog with increased reliability and new features. They’re also offering 20% until the end of the month. InstantLog runs in the background and lets you choose to log incoming email and/or SMS messages to your native calendar and/or backup to IMAP email accounts (GMail optimized).

The music identification program that is Shazam has been available for a while now. But, their latest premium offering, Shazam Encore is a new addtion to their line up. When it was announced I was kind of left wondering what exactly was in Encore that was not available in the other versions

Recently, I shut down my Rackspace service and switched the company to Google Apps. While some users have complained that BIS email is slow, I’ve noticed a very manageable difference in delivery times for BIS versus BES

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.

Twinkler Software have launched a new app called InstantLog. The app runs in the background and logs your calls, SMS messages and emails to the calendar.

[ YouTube link ] Zenprise have announced an enhancement to their MobileManager platform: the User Health Check system. With a 100 point troubleshooting checklist, IT departments can more easily deal with support issues, which will surely jump after the holiday smartphone buying blitz. The Zenprise User Health Check runs through a 100 point checklist to diagnose and resolve, in real time, the most common user support issues.

Yesterday, Google began distributing QR code window stickers to the top searched 190,000 local businesses throughout the US . This is big news for making QR codes more popular in North America, as our friends in Japan are already benefiting from them, having implemented the technology on a massive scale