| Dual-Persona Smartphones: BlackBerry Balance For Work and Play Research In Motion announced today a new product intended to bridge the gap between personal and business uses on BlackBerry smartphones. BlackBerry Balance is a service tied through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server that cordons work data from personal data for the always-connected worker. BlackBerry Balance shows users a unified view of the applications and data on the smartphone allowing them to separate sensitive business information or personal uses like scheduling and activity management. As enterprise and consumers merge gadgets from a hodge podge of task specific devices to streamlining one device for many purposes, RIM keeps the IT administrators satisfied with security provisions while also allowing personal use.
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BlackBerry PlayBook Gets Facebook App Before iPad Score one for RIM: its new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is getting an official Facebook application before Apple's iPad. Announced at this week's BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida, the new app is the first tablet-optimized interface for the PlayBook. With Facebook for PlayBook, users will be able to view and add friends, read through their News Feed, view photos and videos and chat with their Facebook friends.
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Sponsor Post: Cross Platform Mobile - The Best of Web and Native Apps In a Single Tool? Yes You Can! Editor's note: We offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write posts and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. In a blog post published last week entitled "Cross Platform Mobile," Martin Fowler argues the case against cross-platform mobile application development tools. While his analysis is spot-on, his conclusion fails to hit the mark. Done right, cross-platform mobile application toolkits offer developers the very best of Web and native apps in a single location.
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BlackBerry PlayBook Gets Video Chat RIM's newly launched tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, is getting video chat, the company announced this morning at its BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida. The app, which works over Wi-Fi only for now, lets users callt heir contacts from their Video Chat contact list, or by entering in the BBID email address of the person they want to call.
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Cartoon: Online Offenses Tomorrow is election day in Canada (and to any of my fellow Canucks thinking of giving the ballot box a miss this time, "maybe give Derek Miller a read). Most of the discussion I've seen online has been relatively polite, even muted, with only a few lapses into Godwin's Law territory — which inspired the cartoon below. The same holds true, for the most part, for the campaigns; none of the relatively little mud being flung has stuck. (Arguably, that's because the worst of it was thrown in the months leading up to it.) But one place where passions have flared has been Canada's law barring the publication of election results from one part of the country before the polls have closed in points west. In years gone by, that prohibition has been relevant only to the broadcast media. But in the social media era, suddenly anyone with a Twitter or Facebook account is subject to those same restrictions... and a lot of them don't like it.
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