BlackBerry Application StoreFront Now Accepting Submissions

Clich HERE for information, and HERE for the Vendor Portal.

BlackBerry Nation Now BlackBerry Planet

The publishers (John Wiley) and I have agreed to change the name of my book. One section will be renamed BlackBerry Nation.

RIM Q3 Results

RIM will be holding a Webcast on the Third Quarter Results on Dec. 18 at 5pm.

You can listen in HERE.

Stephen Hawking Lured to Waterloo's Perimeter Institute

Reuters reports that famed Cambridge University mathematician Stephen Hawking has been appointed as the first distinguished research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, starting in the summer of 2009. Perimeter is a quantum theory and cosmology institute founded by RIM founder Mike Lazaridis in 1999.

“The institute’s twin focus, on quantum theory and gravity, is very close to my heart and central to explaining the origin of the universe,” Hawking said in a statement today. The author of the bestseller “A Brief History of Time”, Prof Hawking will make regular visits to the institute in the next few years and build links with Cambridge.

The image shows Hawking and daughter Lucy floating around aboard Zero Gravity Corporation’s June 9, 2007 Father’s Day flight. Hawking should feel right at home in the Institute's Black Hole Cafe.

BlackBerry Storm Videos

I have posted a collection of Storm videos and ads from fans, Verizon and Vodaphone. Have a look HERE.

BlackBerry Storm Teardown

PhoneWreck features a great Storm teardown with fabulous photos of the interior. Check out the screen's "big button":

Bold Beats the Pack in Transfer Times

Gregory Quirk of EE Times has done download tests on the major smartphones, and concludes that Bold is best, largely because RIM's use of the Cypress Semiconductor West Bridge peripheral controller, found in the previous BlackBerry 8120 Pearl, provides "a direct connection of peripherals and creating fast transfer tunnels without loading the main processor. Instead of routing files from the computer through the phone processor to the storage device, it sets up a tunnel directly from the computer to the storage device."

Bold blew away the competition in downloading media files, loading movies twice as quickly as the iPhone 3G.

Telus Storm Rocks Tour

The Telus Storm Rocks Tour will take place in four locations across Canada:

* Toronto - Dec 2nd, at the Guvernment Nightclub @ 6pm-9pm
* Montreal - Dec 4th, at Club 1234 6pm-8pm
* Vancouver - Dec 9th at Caprice Nightclub 6pm-8pm
* Calgary - Dec 11th at Scratch Rock & Roll Lounge 6pm-8pm

Storm Live Demo

RIM has released a live BlackBerry Storm demo HERE. Enjoy.

Download the BlackBerry Storm 9530 Manual

You can download the 249 page 9530 Storm Manual Here.

Here's Verizon's Storm Website.

I have collected new Storm review and ad videos HERE.

Also, check out the Bold 9000 Users Guide in Flash.