WhatsApp for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry 4.6 and higher is available in BlackBerry World (www.blackberryworld.com).
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BlackBerry World, the marketplace from which apps can be downloaded, looks slicker and runs faster than previous iterations.
The video download and rental section in BlackBerry World will initially be available in the US, UK and Canada.
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BlackBerry World for Work, the new corporate app storefront for BlackBerry 10 smartphones that allows organizations to easily manage apps for employees.
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You can download Skype to your Q10 phone from BlackBerry World now.
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Blackberry said it had secured more than 70, 000 additional apps for its Blackberry World app store including Skype, Angry Birds, Facebook and Whatsapp.
For the company's sake, let's hope its annual BlackBerry World showcase, less than two months away, and anticipated BB 10 devices can turn its financial frown upside down.
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As the Z10 goes on sale Friday, BlackBerry 10 boasts it already has 100, 000 apps on its BlackBerry World app store, including popular names like WhatsApp and Angry Birds.
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Specifically, the phone maker will begin scanning all current and future BlackBerry World apps with the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service, a cloud-based solution that'll exist alongside BlackBerry's current security measures.
It also highlights the promise of 70, 000 QNX apps in the re-named BlackBerry World, although we don't know how many of those are totally new, ported or perhaps cross-compatible with older QNX devices.
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From now until March 3rd, I'll experience nearly every aspect of BB10: the UI and its learning curve, its performance and battery life, BlackBerry World, the highly praised virtual keyboard and how well it can handle my work load.
The new BlackBerry World will include an extensive catalog of songs as well as movies and TV shows, with most movies coming to the store the same day they are released on DVD, and next day availability of many current TV series.
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It tells me to open my BlackBerry App World on the Curve and scan the barcode on its screen.
BlackBerry App World, its online store, has about 100, 000 apps, compared to more than 700, 000 each for Android and Apple.
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There are currently 78 million BlackBerry subscribers world-wide, and RIM says that a large majority of Fortune 500 companies issue BlackBerrys to employees.
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Updated versions of each app, incorporating the SYNC application programming interface (API), will be available through Android Market and BlackBerry App World for customers to download.
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"With the BlackBerry App Generator it's now easier than ever for publishers to build and launch an app on BlackBerry App World, " said Nick Barnett, CEO, Mippin.
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Blackberry apps are sold on Blackberry App World, etc.
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When we read the Times of London or the Buenos Aires Herald on our iPhone 4 or Blackberry, the world becomes much smaller and more accessible.
The number of new phones with Google software announced so far at CES is far greater than those of any other platform, including RIM (one: the BlackBerry Curve 9370 world phone for Verizon Wireless) and Apple (none).
It won't be easy: BlackBerry's App World, Palm's App Catalog, Microsoft's Windows Mobile Catalog and Google's Android Market have only a fraction of Apple's offerings.
The software firm says that while RIM is very supportive, it is too hard to make money on its call-logging application, which it sells exclusively through BlackBerry's App World store.
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It is thought that Research in Motion, the makers of the "BB" phone as it is known here, has more than 50% of the Indonesian market - one of the few places in the world where Blackberry is still king.
BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Torch 9850 also offer World Phone capability for international travel to nearly anywhere in the world.
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So when a phone clerk said the "World Edition" BlackBerry could keep him connected--even in Japan, a notorious dead zone for Western phones and personal digital assistants--Kozarsky was sold.
There's a rear-facing camera at the top, which likely won't get much use seeing as how it appears to be painted over -- though it may offer a cool filtered effect as the rest of the world waits for BlackBerry to jump on the Instagram bandwagon.
China's Huawei jumped ahead of Nokia, HTC and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in the world-wide smartphone race in the fourth quarter on the strength of its inexpensive devices.
If you look in the developing countries around the world you will notice that blackberry is a very popular smartphone and far more common that iPhone and Sam Galaxy or whatever because it is cheap and affordable.
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As the world awaits the arrival of BlackBerry 10 hardware, the Wall Street Journal has a report from RIM CEO Thorsten Heins that the company is ready to start showing off the "nearly complete" devices to carriers next week.
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The two had presided over both heady success and then precipitous decline of their signature product, the BlackBerry, which had nearly half the world market for smartphones just three years ago, but fell to only 9% in the third quarter of 2011, according to one market research report.
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