Alex Kinch

Secure mobile voice calling provider Cellcrypt have today announced support for the recently launched BlackBerry Bold 9700, as well as older models from the Curve and Pearl series.
The requirement for secure voice calling is now greater than ever. Recent media coverage of well-known individuals having their mobile phone security compromised, and of a hacker organisation’s [...]

Vopium, the leading international mobile communications company, today announces the launch of its free application on BlackBerry App World™. As the world’s first mobile VoIP application available on BlackBerry App World™, the launch cements Vopium’s commitment to offering consumers and businesses worldwide a free and heavily-discounted international communications service.

The .tel top level domain is now available to BlackBerry users courtesy of a new plug-in from Telnic.
The service, which allows mobile users to find public and private .tel contact information via their address book, is available to download free of charge at http://bb.apps.telnic.tel via your BlackBerry.
Henri Asseily, CTO and Chief Strategist at Telnic, explained: [...]

Irish Telecoms and mobile entrepreneur Pat Phelan has posted a useful round-up of his favourite Twitter clients for the BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and iPhone smart phones.
What’s Pat’s picks? I won’t spoil the fun – head over to Pat’s blog to find out.
via Best of breed twitter mobile clients.

BlackBerry Bold and Curve users in the US will be able to watch their favourite shows on their handset soon thanks to a deal between US TV networks and a company called QuickPlay.
For $7.99 a month, subscribers to the PrimeTime2Go service will be able to download shows over Wi-Fi from NBC, CBS, and MTV. Although [...]

Research In Motion shares rose more than 20% overnight after posting their fourth quarter results.
The BlackBerry maker made $518.3m in the quarter December 08-February 09 – up 26% on the same period a year ago. Revenue came in at $3.46 billion, higher than the $3.42 billion analysts had predicted.
The company also said it’d added around [...]

When is a Skype VOIP client not a VOIP client? When it’s running on the BlackBerry.
Amongst all the fuss about the new Skype software for the BlackBerry (and of course the iPhone), BlackBerry guru Hayden at PinStack has discovered that the software is merely a front for call-through service. When you place a call to [...]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) have just launched their new app store for the device – rather ingeniously called ‘BlackBerry App World’. Available immediately to BlackBerry users in the UK, US and Canada – with more countries to follow – App World aims to offer broad mix of personal and business applications for users [...]