Mobile

Blackberry Email Outage

Blackberry users throughout North America faced long delays receiving email on their devices this Thursday. Research In Motion said they were aware of the problem and that engineers were working to solve it as soon as possible. RIM noted that customers could still make and receive phone calls, text messages and browse the Internet. Customers first noted... [Read more]

The Truth About Sexting

Sexting is all over the news these days. Whether you find it risky or risque, Joy of Tech’s Nitrozac and Snaggy share the truth about sexting in this week’s Sunday Funny.  Read More →

Google Goggles for Android

Google has done some interesting things with mobile search in the past year, introducing voice search and local search using the location awareness capabilities of today’s smartphones. Today, they are introducing visual search called Google Goggles. Google Goggles let’s you take a picture of something, and Google will do a quick search that... [Read more]

Nimbuzz Intros IM for BlackBerry

Nimbuzz has created the first multi-network IM app for BlackBerry smartphones available in the RIM App World store. Because it’s design as a native BlackBerry app, it can run in the background and push notifications to the phone much like their iPhone and Android apps can. This is the first version, and currently only supports instant messaging... [Read more]

Yahoo Updates iPhone Messenger

Yahoo has released an update to Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone. Version 1.3 fixes some bugs, adds support for several languages and adds some nice new features. What’s New in 1.3? Finally Yahoo has added the most-requested feature — the ability to change your display pic right from your iPhone. You can take a picture with the built-in iPhone... [Read more]

AT&T Supports VoIP on the iPhone

It’s been a long, battle with a lot of finger pointing, but AT&T has officially stated that VoIP over their 3G network will be supported, opening the door to Google Voice, Skype and other apps on the iPhone and other 3G phones. While VoIP applications such as Skype were previously available, they relied exclusively on WiFi connectivity. In... [Read more]

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Update From the BigBlue Blog

BigBlueBall Staffer Philip Recognized as Microsoft MVP

More great news from the BigBlueBall staff. Long time staff member Philip has been recognized by Microsoft as a 2010 Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Live Messenger. As he noted on his blog, Philip received the notification on New Year’s Day — a nice way to kick-off the new year! Philip has been a member of BigBlueBall since... [Read More]

BigBlueBall Staffer Awarded Microsoft MVP

BigBlueBall staff member Doris Kenney–patndoris in the forums–has been officially recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Live Messenger (WLM). The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise... [Read More]

BigBlueBall Featured at the StudioPress Showcase

Back on March 1st, we introduced an extensive redesign of BigBlueBall to make it easier for you to participate in our community. We revamped the front end of our site to leverage the powerful-but-flexible Wordpress back end. We made it possible to comment without registering, and made it possible for you to sign in using your Facebook account.  But... [Read More]

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