BBM Music v1.0.0.93 now available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone

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If you’re taking part in the BBM Music beta, you should be getting an email shortly, if you haven’t already letting you know that BBM Music v1.0.0.93 is now available for download. The list of changes for this release is rather short but the list of known issues is rather large — so at least RIM is letting you know what to look out for.

What’s New?

  • Stop button in media player
  • Buy button now checks for available music store if none is installed
  • Improved performance: limit is raised to 200 contacts!!
  • Many various bug fixes

Known Issues

  • Missing focus – can’t enter characters
  • Can’t enter any characters or delete on the search text field when the focus is on ‘Shuffle’ in All Songs
  • Device in preview mode (blocked state customers will see on first install before entering payment info) can not add contact’s songs to custom playlists
  • Duplicate comments in timeline
  • BBM music unable to connect to BBM
  • Long delay while adding song to playlist
  • Clicking email invitation URL does not launch BBM Music
  • After a song is added to My Songs, a short clip plays instead of full songs
  • Frequently unable to preview song over GPRS or EDGE
  • Takes too long to save playlist info
  • Built-In Memory option is shown for a device that does not have built-in memory
  • Screen overlap while refreshing
  • ‘Can I Get A..’ by Jay-Z Does not have explicit content label
  • Get an incorrect error message on second try of BBM invite
  • Currently keeps messages of removed BBM Music contacts
  • [Other] Input system error for filtering songs in a playlist on Stratus as well as any device using the virtual keyboard

The update is available now for most users, if you’re not seeing it as of yet, then it’ll be updated shortly so just sit tight and make sure when using it, you file feeback on any issues that arise — given that it is a beta, RIM will need to be aware of the issues before they can ever be correct.

Login to the BlackBerry Beta Zone

Source: Crackberry.com

BlackBerry Protect – Remotely backup and wipe your data

Blackberry Protect is a free service for consumers and work only with BIS account as BES security is managed by organisation’s administrator. The full feature list is:

  • Locate on map
  • Activate loud ringer
  • Device lock
  • Password change
  • Lost and Found screen
  • Remote wipe both device and microSD card
  • OTA backup of PIM data, bookmarks and text messages

Source: Berry Review

RIM launches new Blackberry App World

App World 2.0 will allow users to add the cost of purchases to their monthly mobile phone, in addition to the existing option of paying via PayPal.

RIM plans to almost all BlackBerry users to pay via their monthly mobile bill by the year 2011.

App World 2.0, which was first revealed a few months ago, is set to include a number of new features, including support for QR Bar Codes and an updated search function.

The most significant update is the introduction of a new BlackBerry ID, which will enable users to transfer applications from one device to another, rather than having to pay for a new copy.

Check the webstore at http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/

ECG on Blackberry

Indian healthcare equipment vendor Maestros Mediline Systems Limited has launched a mobile ECG application that can enable doctors to receive real-time heart data of patients from their Blackberries over the Vodafone network.

The system, called eUNO R10, has patients with a special set of wrist electrodes connect to the eUNO BlackBerry app, which records and uploads cardiac data to the server. From the server, the data is automatically pushed to the BlackBerry of a doctor (who need not be in the hospital), to analyze the data.  A diagnosis whether the patient is having a heart attack (or a more mild incident such as an angina), and quickly prescribe the appropriate medicines and/or courses of action—all far more quickly than could be done previously.

For now, the service has launched with one hospital (Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital), one carrier and with one smartphone platform. We bet other hospitals, carriers, and smartphone makers will jump in as well in coming months.

More BlackBerry Beta Zone countries added

Good news for Indian blackberry fans… now you don’t need to wait for leaked versions of your blackberry softwares which are in Beta as now you can download it from their website directly. What you have to do is to register at https://www.blackberry.com/beta/apply

Previously it is not open for Indian users but today RIM announced the addition of India as a beta zone enabled country. You can get full list of countries from http://cot.ag/dsW3ID

Cisco releases WebEx blackberry client

WebEx Meeting Center on BlackBerry smartphones includes:

  • The ability to view presentations and applications from anyone’s desktop.

  • Host features (start a meeting and make another participant the presenter)

  • Integrated audio

  • Public and private chat

  • Participant list view

Scheduling a meeting, inviting attendees to a meeting, and presenting from a BlackBerry smartphone are not supported in this release.

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For more details please visit http://www.webex.com/blackberry/blackberryFAQ.html

BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac updated to v1.0.3

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Its hard to get some news for Mac lovers from RIM but this time we have one. The latest update to version 1.0.3 fixes some synching problems with data and music. RIM has also thrown in support for Korean, Japanese, & Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) with the update.

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/desktop/desktop_mac.jsp

Source: Berryreview