Congrats RIM | Blackberry Appworld Crosses 3 Billion Downloads

Well well well! With over 90,000 apps "up for sale" (as they like to call it ;) ) App World has finally crossed 3 billion downloads in just over 3 years, and the popularity of app world is growing at a great pace as highlighted in this article. One factor that personally made me very happy was the launch of Appworld in the emerging markets. Read out in more detail here:

Three Billion & Counting...

RIM Delays BB10 | Wait and Watch

Update: I was about to write a detail article about the recent happenings around RIM, its quarterly loss, cutting down of about 5000 jobs and delay of its BB10 phones. Well i have changed my mind for now, and after the recent media appearances by RIM's executives, i think we need to wait and watch instead of giving an opinion at this point. So we will keep you posted and updated!!

Strictly for Developers | Playbook OS 2.1

RIM the maker of BlackBerry smartphones and tablet Playbook has released a developer update for its Playbook OS, numbered up to 2.1.0.560.

If you are a developer or are willing to test this build (and see some better things but also face some issues, ITS A BETA) click Download, register and update.

Change log:

• Improved HTML5 support
• Portrait support for Email, Calendar and Contacts
• Improved folder support including IMAP folder support
• Full device encryption is now supported, so that the whole device and personal partition can be secure.
• Screenshots are now saved in lossless PNG format.
• Each Android app will now run in its own window. This greatly improves the user experience and consistency among the other application runtimes.
• Access to the Camera hardware is now supported for Android apps, allowing many more application types to work on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet.
• In-App Payment is now supported through the BlackBerry Payment SDK, so Android applications can include virtual items for sale in their applications